Working Papers 1975–1989 (WP001–WP255)

The present paper is part of a study concerning the international competitiveness of Swedish industry. The two aspects of the broad and complex question of competitiveness that have been studied so fa…

The origin of this paper was the need to provide import and export functions for the IUI-model of the Swedish economy used in the 1979 forecasting exercise, later on extended to support the analysis i…

This paper includes theoretical and empirical analyses of some effects of changes in payroll taxes. First, the implication of the standard partial equilibrium analysis is explored in Section II. In pa…

Working Paper No. 49 is published as "Kommunernas roll i den offentliga sektorn" in the Dissertation series (author: Richard Murray). Department of Economics, Stockholm University. Stockholm: IUI, 198…

In these simulation experiments for the Swedish economy, the impact of a future oil price shock was measured in terms of the stabilization policies required, and the possibility was evaluated of insur…

Working Paper No. 39 is published as Industristödspolitiken och dess inverkan på samhällsekonomin (authors: Bo Carlsson, Fredrik Bergholm and Thomas Lindberg). Stockholm: Industriens Utredningsinstitu…

This paper develops a procedure for testing the signaling hypothesis as advanced by Spence, et. al. The approach used is to examine directly the question of whether employers use education for purely…

In this paper we examine the stability properties of price dispersion equi1ibrium in a market where individuals and firms have to make efforts to collect information about the prices charged by firms…

Working Paper No. 31 is published as "Taxes and Market Instability" (author: Bengt-Christer Ysander), in Gunnar Eliasson and Jan Södersten (eds.), Business Taxation, Finance and Firm Behavior - Procee…

This paper uses a simple model to explore the effects of "increasing demand risk" on business fixed investment. We show that within a putty-clay framework an increase in demand uncertainty can be expe…

In times of inflation, most existing systems of taxation introduce new distortions into the allocation of resources. In this paper, the effects of inflation via taxes on the firm's east of capital are…

Working Paper No. 18 is published as Teknik och industristruktur – 70-talets ekonomiska kris i historisk belysning (authors: Bo Carlsson, Erik Dahmén, Anders Grufman, Märtha Josefsson and Johan Örteng…

This paper is concerned with the measurement of productive efficiency. Farrell's measures of efficiency are generalized to nonhomogeneous production functions. Several new measures of efficiency have…

Technical change in general milk processing is estimated within a homothetic frontier production function allowing neutrally variable scale elasticity. The results show that technical progress is char…

The human capital model predicts that in equilibrium and in the absence of discrimination units of human capital possessed by individuals are paid the same rentals. This would hold also when comparing…

How important for success on the job is uninterrupted labor force participation? Data on labor force status for a 15 year period for individual salaried employees in Swedish Industry makes possible th…

In most applications of complete systems of demand functions to national accounts data it is implicitly assumed that the demand functions are identified. For post-war Sweden this is not an altogether…

Several attempts have been made to determine the tax differential between the corporate and non-corporate sectors of the economy, implied by the present double taxation of corporate source income. A c…

By means of a new type of production function - the WDI function – an examination has been made of the production structure in thirteen branches of Swedish manufacturing industry. The function used wh…

Within the framework given by the theory of optimal income taxation this paper investigates the progressivity of the Swedish income tax. On the assumption that taxes distort labour leisure choice some…

The multiplier effects resulting from an isolated increase in the level of public consumption within different public branches are investigated and the policy implications are discussed. The article b…

The elements of corporate and personal taxation are integrated into a corporate growth model describing a value maximizing firm. The choice parameters of the firm are (1) the growth rate, (2) the debt…