Pontus Braunerhjelm
Thomas Andersson
This paper analyses the behaviour of competing governments in the EC with respect to inflows of direct investment. Solving a non-cooperative sequential bargaining game in which host countries gain from direct investment through tax revenue or imposition…
Thomas Andersson
Pollution and polluters can move across national boundaries, but governments which seek to maximize social welfare should coordinate optimal environmental protection through transfer payments or commitments. However, governments may respond to political…
Stefan Fölster
Thomas Andersson
Den här rapporten analyserar Sveriges val mellan en optimal anpassning till EG och medlemskap med hänsyn till värdet av svenskt manöverutrymme respektive inflytande på EGs beslut. Vad gäller handelspolitiken kan Sverige i teorin vara mer öppet utanför EG,…
Birgitta Swedenborg
In a world with multinational companies (MNC's) changes such as those implied by the realization of EC's internal market will affect the locational choice made by geographically mobile MNC's outside the EC. The reason is that any change which affects the…
Kari Alho
The paper provides a means of estimating, with a given parameter of conjectural variation, international trade barriers under imperfect competition from data on market shares of different countries and producers in various markets, number of exporting…
Yrjäjä Tolonen
David Greenaway and Robert C. Hine
Jan Andersson
Margarida Ponte Ferreira
Henryk Kierzkowski
Jan Fagerberg
This paper discusses the impact of the completion of the EC internal market on the competitive position of EFTA firms (and, hence, also on economic growth in EFTA countries). The discussion falls in three parts. First, the process of European economic…
Arne Melchior
Lars Lundberg
Pär Hansson
The paper examines the constraint import competition imposes on the price-cost margins in Swedish manufacturing industries. It addresses two questions. Has the free trade agreement between the EC and EFTA reinforced the disciplinary effect of imports? Are…
Per Lundborg
Jan I. Haaland
The paper presents a first attempt at assessing general equilibrium effects of 1992. Two kinds of general equilibrium effects are relevant: one (dampening) effect stemming from the common resource constraints, the other one related to the fact that the…
Ari Lahti
The aim of this study is to discuss and to quantify the macroeconomic effects of further European integration on the countries outside the European Community. We use Finnish economy as an example in our quantitative analysis. However, for the most part of…
Richard Baldwin
Productive factors such as human and physical capital are accumulated and trade can affect the steady-state levels of such factors. Consequently, trade liberalization will have dynamic effects on output and welfare as the economy moves to its new steady…
Rolf Henriksson
Norrlandsutredningen intar en särställning i lUIs historia. Redan dess omfattning och varaktighet ger den en förstarangsplats bland institutets tidigaste utredningar. Tidvis svarade den för mer än hälften av dettas utredningsbudget och den pågick under…
James W. Albrecht and Susan B. Vroman.
This paper examines the problem of nonexistence of equilibrium in a simple search model with asymmetric information. A pure-strategy, symmetric Nash equilibrium fails to exist because adverse selection arising from steady-state considerations causes a…
James W. Albrecht and Susan B. Vroman
Gunnar Eliasson
Gunnar Eliasson
The firm is defined in terms of its financial objectives, achieved through human-based organizational competence, conferring scale economies on all other factors. Competence is developed through organizational learning, jointly produced with the value…
Gunnar Eliasson
Gunnar Eliasson
The importance of free innovative entry (deregulation) for diversity of structure and competition is studied. I demonstrate quantitatively that even with a narrow definition of entry (firms), and given observed entry behavior, successful entrants…
Erol Taymaz
Anders Björklund
Jonas Häckner
This paper deals with the physical location of firms although other interpretations are also possible. It is a well-known fact that firms in certain industries tend to cluster. However, since you would expect competition to be more intense when goods are…
F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford
Harald Lang and Stefan Lundgren
The paper addresses the question whether current tariffs for telecommunications services provided by the Swedish telecommunications company, Televerket (TVT), are optimal, second-best "Ramsey" prices. Focusing on two tariffs for…
Gunnar Eliasson, Stefan Fölster, Thomas Lindberg, Tomas Pousette and Erol Taymaz
Working Paper No. 256 is published as "The Knowledge Based Information Economy" (authors: Gunnar Eliasson, Stefan Fölster, Thomas Lindberg, Tomas Pousette and Erol Taymaz). Stockholm: Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research…