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Asymmetric Effects of Corruption on FDI: Evidence from Swedish Multinational Firms

Hakkala, Katariina; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

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Public Sector Size and Corruption: Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities

Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Günther; Öhrvall, Richard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in … 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these corruption measures with detailed administrative municipality …

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time as well as between...

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Privatization, Investment and Ownership Efficiency

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We provide a model that explains the following empirical observations: i) private ownership is more efficient than public ownership, ii) privatizations are associated with increases in efficiency and iii) the increase in efficiency predates the privatization. The two key mechanisms explaining...

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Privatization Policy in an International Oligopoly

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

This paper studies privatization policy in an international oligopoly. The argument that equal treatment of foreign investors will be detrimental to domestic welfare by shifting profits from domestic to foreign firms is shown to be less relevant in privatization auctions than in greenfield FDI...

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Privatization as a part of a Liberalization Program in an International Oligopoly

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper determines the equilibrium market structure in an international oligopoly which is opened up by a privatization. Market power is shown to be an important determinant of the equilibrium market structure, when greenfield investment costs are high. When the greenfield investment costs...

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Privatization of Credence Goods: Theory and an Application to Residential Youth Care

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

A wide range of services provided by the public sector are credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. This paper studies how ownership affects the incentives for producers to reveal such information to public...

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Privatization and Foreign Competition.

Norback, P.J.; Persson, L. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This paper determines the equilibrium market structure in a mixed international oligopoly, where the state assets are sold at an auction. The model suggests that low greenfield costs and low trade costs induce foreign acquisitions. The intuition is that domestic firms can then not prevent...

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Privatization as a Part of Liberalization Program in an International Oligopoly.

Norback, P.J.; Persson, L. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper determines the equilibrium market structure in an international oligopoly which is opened up by a privatization.

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Privatization and Restructuring in Concentrated Markets

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....

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