Books 1980–1999

The focus of this book is to illustrate successful strategies employed by Nordic firms to internationalize their capital expenditure. Some of the cases capture solutions for companies residing in high…

Global changes and new technologies are in the process of changing the foundations on which society is based. How does the process of globalisation affect business enterprise and economic policy? Hum…

The Geography of Multinational Firms addresses the implications of multinational production, and the forces that determine location. The analytical framework builds on recent developments in the theor…

The strategic importance of risk-management is a concern at the forefront of most organisations. Increasingly, uncertainty about macroeconomic environment of the firm is a major concern. It is essenti…

Institutions and policies in the economic and social fields have been rather experimental in Sweden. The experiences of some of these experiments are also relevant, positively or negatively, for other…

What is the relationship between technological innovation and economic growth? In Technological Systems and Industrial Dynamics, this question is answered through an analysis of four ¿technological sy…

Global financial markets are on the threshold of a new age. After two decades of dramatic transformation in the structure and functions of national financial markets and financial service industries,…

The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental evolutio…

Much of the existing literature of multinational companies has been concerned with firms originating in the world's largest economies. This book redresses this situation by presenting important inform…

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…

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…

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the prime engine to foster growth and to facilitate the restructuring and internationalization of formerly sheltered areas during the 1980s. This book deals…

Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) is a panel study of the economic behavior of households. Survey data have been collected for a random sample of Swedish households covering topics such…

Three themes are brought together in this volume, namely innovative activity, managerial performance in the organization of innovations, and markets for ownership and control. In consideration of thes…

Managing Trade Relations in the New World Economy analyses the implications of the new world economy for global trade. Thomas Andersson explores how manufactured exports have increased exponentially w…

Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) is a panel study of the economic behavior of households. Survey data have been collected for a random sample of Swedish households covering topics such…

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…

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…

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…

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-…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In recent years IUI has devoted considerable resources to research within the area of public finance - dealing in particular with taxes, public budgeting and local government behavior. In the summer o…

In a clear and coherent way this book presents a new perspective on the extent and effects of international financial market fluctuations. It looks at, summarizes and analyses the information problems…

This report was prepared for presentation at the International Business Academy, International Meeting in Singapore in June 1984. What is reported are findings from a research project that investigate…

In early 1979 Martin Feldstein suggested that the general approach of Mervyn King's Public Policy and the Corporation (1977) could be used to compare effective marginal tax rates for several different…

The 60s and the 70s showed a decline in various indicators of labor mobility in Sweden. Concerns were about the adverse allocation effects that a less mobile force might imply. This book brings toget…

This medium-term survey of the Nordic economies meets a long felt demand. It is a result of a joint effort by five Nordic research institutions; ETLA in Helsinki, IFF and the Secretariat of the Econom…

The high energy price level resulting from the two oil price hikes has made energy saving and energy efficiency a major issue for Swedish manufacturing. The six econometric papers assembled in this v…

A major research effort of IUI in recent years has been directed towards tracing and analyzing the causes and implications of the so-called energy crisis of the 1970s. The project - called Energy and…

The two papers collected in this volume are both concerned with the economic consequences of instability and uncertainty of energy prices. The policy options available in Sweden for dealing with the p…

During the twentieth century one of the most important changes in the structure and management of industry has been the rise of corporate R&D in large companies. Although some economists, such as…

Complete systems of demand functions form an important part of many econometric macro models and they are also a useful tool for demand analysis in its own right. Econometric aspects of the applicatio…

Over the years IUI has devoted considerable resources to research under the heading Taxes, Finance and Firm Behavior. Several such projects are currently in progress. In the summer of 1978 when the In…

Labor market studies have long been a central theme of IUI research, covering such topics as labor mobility, education and productivity on the one hand, and wage and salary formation on the other. Thi…

This is an empirical investigation of determinants of engineering trade specialization largely within a factor proportions theoretical framework. The factor proportions approach was the first that cam…

This is the complete set of papers on the Swedish micro-to-macro model presented at the conference on micro simulation models, arranged jointly by the IUI and IBM Sweden, September 19-22, 1977. To our…

The objectives and benefits of social research always have to be judged in relation to some current or perceived future decision problem of society. It is not always obvious what is important, and to…