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Bjornerstedt, J.; Stennek, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

In many intermediate goods markets buyers and sellers both have market power. Contracts are usually long-term and negotiated bilaterally, codifying many elements in addition to price. We model such bilateral oligopolies as a set of simultaneous Rubenstein-Stahl bargainings over contracts...

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Efficiency Gains from Mergers.

Roller, L.-H.; Stennek, J.; Verboven, F. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into account efficiency gains from horizontal mergers, and balance these gains against the anti-competitive effects of mergers? If so, how should a system be designed to account for...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Helene - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

In recent decades immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition of the population in many countries has consequently become much more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic background. If people exhibit in-group bias in the sense of being more...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

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