Publikationer

Stora delar av världens ekonomier har under de senaste åren befriats från konkurrenshämmande regleringar. Trots radikalt annorlunda utgångspunkter har genomgripande avregleringar skett i såväl Nordame…

Begreppet produktivitet förekommer allt oftare i den ekonomisk-politiska debatten. Den sänkta ökningstakten i industrins produktivitet är i första hand ett ekonomiskt problem, inte ett tekniskt, hävda…

This volume is a tribute to Erik Dahmén on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Dahmén's innovative and influential contributions to the study of economic development began more than 50 years…

Multinational Investment in Developing Countries explores the struggle for gains from direct investment between multinationals and developing countries. The author explains differences in taxation and…

Bengt-Christer Ysander has had a varied career in many locations. The largest share by far of his academic writing took place during his eight years (1978-1985) at IUI. We-a current and a former presi…

ROBERT M. SOLOW received the prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1987. The award was given in recognition of Professor Solow's influential studies on the factors behind macroeconomic growt…

Governments now widely recognize that long-term economic growth hinges on a country's ability to adopt and develop new technology. To stimulate technological capability most countries therefore mainta…

This paper presents the need of a European agenda for East Asia. The root of East Asian dynamism lies in an actively pursued export-oriented development strategy. The consequences embrace new opportun…

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 fro…

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 commi…

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 handelspo…

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 häl…

It is shown that when the effects of an increase in unemployment subsidies are studied in a general equilibrium framework, unemployment increases far less than in a "partial-partial" model. In fact, t…

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 t…

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 an…

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 t…

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…

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 con…

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 o…

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 outp…

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 selectio…

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 organ…

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 give…

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 woul…

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.…

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 Insti…

This paper describes how large, typically multi-technology corporations build up and exploit their technological capability by purchasing small, technology-based firms in order to acquire their techno…

International Financial Integration discusses the importance and the implications of this particular type of integration and then looks at the most important problems connected with measuring it. Diff…

Industriens Utredningsinstitut (IUI) har under en stor del av sin 50-åriga tillvaro varit Sveriges enda privatfinansierade forskningsinstitut inom samhällsvetenskapen, det största och under långa tide…

This book is an outcome of a joint project by The Nordic Perspective Group, formed by four Nordic research institutions: ETLA in Helsinki, IFF in Copenhagen, IUI in Stockholm and NØI in Bergen. The N…

Vad bestämmer hur mycket vi arbetar och hur vi använder vår fritid? Hur väljer vi mellan olika bostadsformer? Hur många barn föds i Sverige? Hur skiljer sig kvinnors och mäns arbete och fritid? Hur st…

EG 1992 har starkt påverkat företagens förväntningar och planer om den framtida lokaliseringen av produktionen. Denna studie baseras på en omfattande enkät. samt intervjuer med 40 stora svenska indust…

The implications of the knowledge-based information economy are studied conceptually and statistically. Innovation, economic coordination, and diffusion of knowledge are found to be dominant resource-…