Fredrik Bergholm
Gunnar Eliasson
Erik Dahmén
The main purpose of this paper is to define "Schumpeterian dynamics" and to indicate how it can serve as a basis and starting point for studies in development economics irrespective of how Schumpeter used his general approach and what kind of hypotheses…
Herbert Simon
Existing uncertainties about the correct explanations for economic growth and business cycles cannot be settled by aggregative analysis within the neoclassical framework. Current disputes in theory rest largely on ad hoc, casually empirical, assumptions…
Bo Carlsson
Tad Rybczynski
Sidney Winter
Richard A. Day
Adaptive economizing in a decentralized economy with alternative technologies and scarce resources leads to various kinds of locally unstable behavior. Economic disequilibrium is the rule in such a world and requires the presence of market mechanisms that…
J. P. Benassy
William Parker
John C. Hause and Gunnar Du Rietz
Entry is widely discussed, but rarely subjected to empirical study. This study develops a competitive theory of entry, with primary focus on the relationship between entry and industry growth. The main ingredients are adjustment coats to firms already in…
Lars Oxelheim
Bengt-Christer Ysander
Anders Björklund
In this paper we consider the basic self-selection model for the effects of education, training, unions, and other activities on wages. We show that past models have ignored "heterogeneity of rewards" to the activity--i.e., differences across individuals…
Gunnar Eliasson
Gunnar Eliasson
Anders Klevmarken
Gunnar Eliasson
Bertil Holmlund and Harald Lang
James W Albrecht and Bo Axell
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model with sequential search in which a non-degenerate wage offer distribution is endogenously determined. We use this model to analyze the comparative statics effects of increases in unemployment…
Finn R. Førsund and Lennart Hjalmarsson
The purpose of this article is to provide a deeper empirical insight into the structural change of an industry which is more relevant than that obtained by an analysis based on the traditionally estimated average production function. The main contribution…
Bo Carlsson
Bo Carlsson
The machine tool industry is tiny but crucial: it supplies the machines to cut, form, and shape metals upon which about half of the manufacturing industries are dependent. The state of the art of the machine tools themselves, their control systems and the…
Edgar L. Feige and Robert T. McGee
Recent research on the unobserved economy suggests that the phenomenon has important implications for both macroeconomic policy and public finance. This paper focuses attention on the public finance implications by developing a simple macro-model from…
Bertil Holmlund
Greg J. Duncan and Bertil Holmlund
Eva Christina Horwitz
George E. Peterson
Working Paper No. 91 is published as "Price and Privatization of Public Services". In Edward M. Gramlich and Bengt-Christer Ysander (eds.), Control of Local Covernment. IUI Conference Reports 1985:1. Stockholm: Industrial Institute for Economic…
Wallace E. Oates
Working Paper No. 90 is published as "Fiscal Limitations: An Assessment of the U.S. Experience". In Edward M. Gramlich and Bengt-Christer Ysander (eds.), Control of Local Covernment. IUI Conference Reports 1985:1. Stockholm: Industrial…
Peter Jackson
Working Paper No. 89 is published as "Fiscal Containment and Local Government Finance in the U.K.". In Edward M. Gramlich and Bengt-Christer Ysander (eds.), Control of Local Covernment. IUI Conference Reports 1985:1. Stockholm: Industrial…
Noel Hepworth
Working Paper No. 88 is published as "Control of Local Authority Expenditure – The Use of Cash Limits". In Edward M. Gramlich and Bengt-Christer Ysander (eds.), Control of Local Covernment. IUI Conference Reports 1985:1. Stockholm:…
Edward M. Gramlich
Working Paper No. 87 is published as "Exessive Government Spending in the U.S.: Facts and Theories". In Edward M. Gramlich and Bengt-Christer Ysander (eds.), Control of Local Covernment. IUI Conference Reports 1985:1. Stockholm:…
Gunnar Eliasson
Eva Christina Horwitz
Tomas Pousette
Richard Murray and Bengt-Christer Ysander
Working Paper No. 83 is published as "Kontrollen av kommunerna – En översikt av svenska erfarenheter under efterkrigstiden av statlig kommunstyrning" (authors: Bengt-Christer Ysander and Richard Murray). Forskningsrapport nr 18.…
Tomas Nordström and Bengt-Christer Ysander
Lars Bergman
Joyce Dargay
Bo Carlsson