Publikationer

This paper shows that plant and firm size in manufacturing, and especially in engineering industry, in several Western industrial countries has declined since the early 1970s. Two hypotheses explainin…

This paper concerns the design of a trading mechanism for a group of traders when their valuations of the good are private information and they bargain over who shall consume more than his initial end…

The multinational firm (MNF) is introduced as the intersection between trade theory and the theory of the firm. I show that economies of scale associated with various knowledge inputs have made it pos…

The present paper has two aims. The first one concerns primarily an issue of method. I set up and analyse an explicitly stochastic model of the optimal behaviour of a firm, which recruits from a searc…

The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: a rigorous search theoretical model of t…

Economic growth in the very long run is described by a multiple-phase, dynamic process with potentially complex dynamics during transitions between regimes. Technology is assumed to rest on a manageri…

Experiments, where prospective participants are randomly assigned into experimental and control groups, are often regarded as the ideal approach to evaluation of manpower policies. This examination sh…

Denna skrift studerar ägarnas organisatoriska kompetens bakom strukturomvandlingen, bakom företagssamgåenden, företagsövertaganden och företagsupplösning. En experimentellt organiserad marknadsekonom…

Lars Oxelheim beskriver i denna omfattande undersökning hur den svenska finansmarknaden styrs av händelserna på världsmarknaden. Han visar hur svenska räntor är kopplade till utländska räntor och med…

Professor James Buchanan received the Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1986. As part of the established tradition IUI and the Federation of Swedish Industries invited him back to…

Svensk industri har blivit allt mindre svensk, alltmer multinationell. Boken handlar om denna internationaliseringsprocess och är en uppföljning av tidigare IUI-böcker som studerat industrins utlandsi…

Government subsidized industrial R & D stands for a large and increasing segment of the total R & D conducted. Yet very little is known about the effectiveness of such subsidies. This paper su…

An "incentive subsidy" policy for subsidizing private R & D is proposed that can be more efficient, from a social point of view, than subsidy policies in common use such as a "normal" subsidy poli…

Hedging transaction and translation exposures to exchange rate changes may increase the economic exposure of the firm and reduce the information value of firms' quarterly statements. In this paper hed…

We modify the basic self-selection model for the effects of education, training, unions, and other activities on wages, by including "heterogeneity of rewards" to the activity -i.e., differences acros…

This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assum…

I regi av Svenska Dagbladet Executive Seminars hölls i april 1986 en konferens under rubriken "Finansiella marknadsfluktuationer och företagets affärer". Uppdraget att utforma programmet gavs åt dr La…

Franco Modigliano received the prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1985. The award was given in recognition of Professor Modigliani’s innovative and influential analysis of savings and fin…

The measurement of industrial structure and productivity growth has a long history in economics. Its usefulness has been limited, however, by the rather simple methods that have been applied. This bo…

Oxelheim and Wihlborg tackle the complex system of corporate exposure to international economic risks and they succeed in presenting a unified framework for understanding and coping with international…

The economies of the Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden – are both similar and strikingly different. This medium term survey is a joint analytic project between the Nordic research…

In the experimentally organized economy introduced in this book the manufacturing firm is portrayed largely as an information processor. The implications for foreign trade, industrial policy and econo…