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An Indirect Approach to Measuring Productivity in Private Services

Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

No abstract.

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What Can Input Tell About Output? Analyzing Productivity and Efficiency in the Absence of Output measures

Mellander, Erik; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

No abstract.

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Production Hierarchies in Sweden

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....

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Retail Productivity: Investigating the Influence of Market Size and Regional Hierarchy

Öner, Özge - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … located in central and non-central markets respectively. The results show an approximately 10 percent higher productivity … markets. The findings also show that employee characteristics do not contribute to the productivity of stores in central …

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Car Age, Taxation, Scrappage Premiums and the ELV Directive

Sandström, F. Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

A chain of replacement model is used to examine the effects of automobile taxes and of a scrappage premium on the life length of cars, and on the size of the car fleet. The predictions of the model are tested on data on the scrappage of cars in Sweden 1989-2002. The theoretical model predicts...

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The Vintage Model for the Swedish Iron and Steel Industry

Jansson, Leif - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1981

No abstract.

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The Structure of the ISAC Model

Jansson, Leif; Nordström, Tomas; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1981

No abstract.

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Corporate Distress and Restructuring with Macroeconomic Fluctuations: The Cases of GM and Ford

Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Traditional methods for evaluating corporate credit risk rarely consider the impact of the macro economy on corporate value and performance. We argue that lenders and management can obtain valuable information about the need for and approach to restructuring by decomposing default predictions...

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Ownership Efficiency and Tax Advantages: The Case of Private Equity Buyouts

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Commentators on the private equity industry often claim that favorable tax treatment gives private equity firms advantages in the market for corporate control. But we show that tax advantages do not affect the equilibrium ownership of corporate assets when acquisition costs are fully deductible...

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Immediate Agreement in Interdependent Bilateral Bargaining

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Stennek, Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This note provides sufficient conditions for immediate agreement in an extensive form model of interdependent bilateral bargaining. The model is suggested by Björnerstedt and Stennek (2006) as a work horse for studying bilateral oligopoly. The key feature of this model is that the firms are...

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