Books 1980–1999
Corporate Strategies to Internationalise the Cost of Capital
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…
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Entrepreneurship in the Welfare State. Summary and Conclusions
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…
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The Geography of Multinational Firms
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…
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Managing in the Turbulent World Economy: Corporate Performance and Risk Exposure
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…
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The Swedish Experiment
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…
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Technological Systems and Industrial Dynamics
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…
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Financial Markets in Transition: Globalization, Investment and Economic Growth
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,…
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Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization: The Use of Information and the Transfer of Knowledge within the Firm
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…
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Multinational Restructuring, Internationalization and Small Economies: The Swedish Case
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…
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Evolutionary Game Theory
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…
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Technological Systems and Economic Performance: The Case of Factory Automation
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…
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The Necessary Institutional Framework to Transform Formerly Planned Economies
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…
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The Global Race for Foreign Direct Investment
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…
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Household Market and Nonmarket Activities: Procedures and Codes 1984–1991. Volume 1
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…
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The Markets for Innovation, Ownership and Control
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…
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Managing Trade Relations in the New World Economy
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…
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Household Market and Nonmarket Activities: Procedures and Codes 1984–1991. Volume 2
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…
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Development Blocks and Industrial Transformation – The Dahménian Approach to Economic Development
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…
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Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: A Study of Taxation and Nationalization
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…
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Truth and Meaning in Economics – Selected Essays on Economic Theory and Policy
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…
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The Rate of Return and the Rate of Interest
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…
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The Art of Encouraging Invention: A New Approach to Government Innovation Policy
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…
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Europe and the East Asian Agenda
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…
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International Financial Integration
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…
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Growth and Integration in a Nordic Perspective
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…
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The Knowledge Based Information Economy
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-…
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The Political Economy of the Welfare State
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…
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The European Economic Recovery – A Need for New Policies?
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…
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Analysis of Industrial Structure – A Putty–Clay Approach
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.
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty: International Risks and Opportunities for the Corporation
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…
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Growth Policies in a Nordic Perspective
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…
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Technological Competition and Trade in the Experimentally Organized Economy
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…
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Two Models of an Open Economy
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…
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The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth–Century Problem of Cause, Probability and Action
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…
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The Dynamics of Market Economies
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…
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Control of Local Government: Proceedings of a Symposium at IUI, Stockholm, June 9–13, 1981
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…
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International Financial Market Fluctuations – Corporate Forecasting and Reporting Problems
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…
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Exchange Risk Management in the Modern Company – A Total Perspecitive
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…
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The Taxation of Income from Capital: A Comparative Study of the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and West Germany
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…
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Labor Mobility – Studies of Labor Turnover and Migration in the Swedish Labor Market
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…
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Economic Growth in a Nordic Perspective
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…
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Energy in Swedish Manufacturing
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…
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Policy Making in a Disorderly World Economy
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…
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Energy and Economic Adjustment
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…
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Technology, Management and Markets: An Investigation of R&D and Innovation in Industrial Organizations
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…
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On the Complete Systems Approach to Demand Analysis
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…
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Business Taxation Finance and Firm Behavior
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…
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Studies in Labor Market Behavior – Sweden and the United States: Proceedings of a Symposium at IUI, Stockholm, July 10–11, 1979
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…
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Engineering Trade Specialization of Sweden and Other Industrial Countries: A Study of Trade Adjustment Mechanisms of Factor Proportions Theory
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…
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Micro Simulation – Models, Methods and Applications: Proceedings of a Symposium on Micro Simulation Methods in Stockholm, September 19–22, 1977
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…
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Measurement and Economic Theory. IUI Research Program 1978/1979
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…
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