Publikationer

This paper studies pricing and capacity decisions in markets for phone-ordered taxicabs. Taxi firms first choose capacities and then compete in prices. As firm demand increases, so does waiting time.…

This text introduces current evolutionary game theory—where ideas from evolutionary biology and rationalistic economics meet—emphasizing the links between static and dynamic approaches and noncooperat…

What are the characteristics of an environment that is conducive to technological innovation? In recent years several studies have appeared which have emphasized the comprehensive institutional framew…

In an open economy the designers of the tax corporate system have to face the possibility that a too high tax may push capital abroad, through direct investments. This paper analyzes the Swedish corpo…

Based on income growth rates connected with moving and with staying, I determine a decision index and argue that a marginal tax decrease may increase or decrease job mobility . An empirical applicatio…

In this study the additional effect of social capital over and above the contribution of human capital on the income attainment of managers is explored A regression analysis of a 1985 sample of III ex…

This paper provides additional insight on the Lilien 1982 sectoral shift hypothesis (Lilien (1983), Abraham and Katz (1986), Samson (1986), Neelin (1987)) by applying it to Swedish data. Lilien claime…

This paper examines the relationship between product differentiation and the sustainability of collusive pricing in markets for vertically differentiated products. The main finding is that collusion i…

The usual justifications of non-cooperative solution criteria are rationalistic in nature, building on individual rationality and expectation-coordination postulates. In contrast, the ‘as if’ approach…

In the traditional Keynesian and classical models, the transmission of product demand changes to the labour market generally involves wage-price sluggishness or counter-cyclical real wage movements. I…

The deregulatory 1980s exhibits a dramatic increase in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from a number of small countries outside the EC. Few studies have analyzed home country effects of outwar…

Kritiken av företagsledares förmåner har varit hård inte bara i Sverige utan också i andra länder. Förutom anklagelsen att svenska chefer tagit ohemult mycket betalt för sina tjänster och att detta ka…

Tusentals regleringar styr och kringgärdar våra liv. Många av dem efterlevs aldrig vare sig av myndigheter, företag eller individer. En reglering som nästan alltid nonchalerats är den som föreskriver…

Kan mer utbildning lösa de rika industriländernas sysselsättnings- och stagnationsproblem? Vad innebär då utbildning? Vad händer med dem som slarvar i grundskolan? Är det någon idé att lägga på ytterl…

The formerly planned economies generally lack the institutions needed to support an orderly transition to a growing market economy. This transition depends on the establishment of orderly commercial t…