Completed Projects
This project aims to create a better understanding of what drives decisions at the local level in a decentralized autocracy such as China. The project is linked to a central issue in political economy…
One purpose of this project is to contribute to the understanding of how the principle of national treatment should be formulated. Another is to shed light empirically on how domestic policy instrumen…
There are a number of determining factors to the increased globalization. An important explanation is the extensive deregulation of global financial markets that has taken place in recent decades. Thi…
The economic map is changing and the focus is on East Asia in general and China in particular. This in turn leads to the links between the Swedish economy and developments in Asia being strengthened.…
Several studies show that countries' institutional frameworks affect which goods are produced most efficiently in the country. Industries in countries with strong legal institutions tend to specialize…
Retail is playing an increasingly important role in our modern economies and its contribution to productivity growth is often debated. This is particularly interesting in light of the ever-current iss…
The purpose of this sub-project is to empirically investigate how the increased scope for international production fragmentation affects the demand for low- and highly educated labor in Sweden. The mu…
The international economic landscape of recent decades is characterized by two important changes. First, there have been major global trade liberalisations within the framework of the GATT and the WTO…
More and more countries are deregulating their product markets and allowing foreign direct investment. However, there is concern among these countries that foreign acquisitions of domestic companies,…
With the increasing globalization, the Swedish economy is becoming increasingly affected by economic developments in the rest of the world. A large part of external research at the Research Instiute o…
When an acquisition takes place, the merged company's operations can become more efficient if the companies' assets complement each other well, but acquisitions without efficiency gains are also possi…
In this project, we study how competition affects Swedish companies' employment decisions and wage setting. There are indications that women are being discriminated in working life, both in terms of s…
The internationalization of Swedish business has been accentuated during the 1990s. How increased influence of foreign-owned companies and cross-border direct investments affect the Swedish labor mark…
This study develops a theory that links a country's political institutions to how the oil price affects the real exchange rate in oil-exporting countries. An important part of the study is to analyze…
This project aims to investigate different aspects of technological development in China. In a first phase, we focus on two key areas: the effect of foreign direct investment on technological developm…