Publikationer

This paper presents a technique for qualitative comparative statics analysis in dynamic programming models. Let the value function v be the fixed point of a contraction mapping which depends different…

This paper introduces an experimental economy with boundedly rational agents that compete with local, and largely incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more…

Swedish Manufacturing Industry is said to be technologically and commercially in good shape. While Swedish wage levels were higher than in all industrial countries in the mid-70s, wages - expressed in…

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration…

The paper contains an analysis of a firm's optimal wage and recruitment policy, when the dynamic labor supply to the firm is specified as a Poisson distributed flow of job-applicants, whose reservatio…

In this article 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" m…

Working Paper No. 166 is published as "Market and Nonmarket Service Production in Swedish Households" (author: Anders Klevmarken) in Gunnar Eliasson (ed.), The Economics of Institutions and Markets, I…

Working Paper No. 165 is published as "Företagens tillväxt i ett historiskt perspektiv". In Johan Örtengren, Thomas Lindberg, Lars Jagrén, Gunnar Eliasson, Per-Olof Bjuggren and Lotta Björklund (eds.)…

When studying incentives in different economic systems, traditional comparative economics focuses on comparing incentives within markets to incentives within hierarchies. Advantages of the former are…

The modern manufacturing firm competes with product quality improvements rather than cost efficient production of simpler products. R&D spending, marketing, availability of spare parts and service…

In recent years IUI has concentrated much of its research efforts on the development and use of econometric models of the Swedish economy. Although full scale economy-wide models are difficult to esti…

The writings of Durkheim and Weber have canonical status in sociology, and their place in this canon sometimes obscures their place in the historical stream of the development of problems. Perhaps thi…

Industriföretagens omvärld utmärks av betydande osäkerhet och stora förändringar. Hur väl företagen kan anpassa sig till de alltmer skiftande marknadsvillkoren prövas särskilt vid olika typer av krise…

Kunskap information och tjänster är en bok om kunskapskapitalets användning i industrin och om den ökade betydelsen av tjänsteproduktion i samhället. Kunskap skapas i lika hög grad i företagen som i…

This volume contains the papers and discussion of a conference on the dynamics of decentralized, market economies held at the Grand Hotel, Saltsjöbaden near Stockholm, August 29-31, 1983. The confere…

I Sverige, liksom i de flesta andra länder, har staten tagit det huvudsakliga finansiella ansvaret för olika former av arbetslöshetsunderstöd. Ett av flera skäl för detta är en önskan att utjämna inko…