Completed Projects
Occupational health risks put a significant strain on the economy. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work estimates that in Sweden, the direct and indirect costs of work-related injuries an…
A core target for EU energy policy is to integrate national electricity markets in Europe. The hope is that increased trade will increase the effectiveness of production, improve the reliability of th…
The world is in the midst of the fourth privatization wave, with record dollar amounts raised globally. So far the academic literature has provided ample empirical evidence that privatizations tend to…
State-to-state investment treaties protect foreign investment against host country policy measures that significantly reduce the investment value. They typically allow investors to litigate against ho…
Access to commercial services in both rural and urban areas is crucial for sustainable regional development in all regions of Sweden. Examples of frequently debated policy tools are subsidies to firms…
This project aimed to create a better understanding of what drives decisions at the local level in a decentralized autocracy such as China. The project was linked to a central issue in political econo…
One purpose of this project was to contribute to the understanding of how the principle of national treatment should be formulated. Another was to shed light empirically on how domestic policy instrum…
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 has been changing and the focus has been on East Asia in general and China in particular. This in turn has lead to the links between the Swedish economy and developments in Asia being…
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 was to empirically investigate how the increased scope for international production fragmentation affects the demand for low- and highly educated labor in Sweden. The m…
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 occurs, the merged company's operations can become more efficient if the companies' assets complement each other well, but acquisitions without efficiency gains are also possible.…
This project studied how competition affects Swedish companies' employment decisions and wage setting. There have been indications that women are being discriminated against in working life, both in t…
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 developed 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 was to analyz…
This project aimed to investigate different aspects of technological development in China. We focused on two key areas: the effect of foreign direct investment on technological development and the eme…
The Dispute Settlement Mechanism of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has dealt with over 500 disputes since its introduction on 1 January 1995, making it one of the world's most widely used dispute…
With the growing importance of ethicality in investment decisions, a natural question becomes whether the ethicality of business proposals influences entrepreneurs' chances of securing financing for t…
The legal burdens for firms that buy and sell stocks have increased significantly lately. This is also true for firms that have wished to list themselves on a public market. Partly for this reason, bu…
Technology and digitalization are challenging established structures in society. This research focused on increasing knowledge about how digitalization affects productivity growth, labor market develo…
We examined if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreig…
Research has shown that contacts are a commonly used channel to enter the labor market. In Sweden, more than 70 percent of high school students have jobs prior to graduation, and these jobs can provid…
Firms both in Sweden and abroad have been exposed to increased competition in many forms. The development of globalization forces domestic firms to adapt to a tougher business climate, while trade ref…
Financial integration facilitates more efficient capital allocation and can affect the relationship between consumption and wealth by relaxing consumers' liquidity constraints. There are also adverse…
Industry standards often use patented technologies. For instance, telecom standards such as 3G and 4G rely on a large number of such ”standard-essential” patents. The owners of these potentially have…
This project studies capital ownership. “The Swedish Ownership model”, which until just recently dominated the stock market, is characterized by ownership limited to one or two owners. Usually, but no…