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Visits to the Client when Tendering for Consulting Contracts: Sourcing Information or Influencing the Client?

Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

Consulting firms (CFs) sell services on a project basis to many clients and must therefore continuously tender for new contracts. One frequently used strategy by CFs is to visit the clients in connection to the tenders. The reason to the visits is either: 1) to influence the client in his...

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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure

Durevall, Dick; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from the early 19th century until the present day in Sweden and the United...

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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...

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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...

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Pay Differentials between Government and Private Sector Employees in Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977

The human capital model predicts that in equilibrium and in the absence of discrimination units of human capital possessed by individuals are paid the same rentals. This would hold also when comparing private and government sectors. Only non-pecuniary rewards such as better job security of...

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries.

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Empirical studies of the relation between government size and economic growth come to widely different conclusions. In part this may reflect the fact that many studies report regressions that contain severe multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, simultaneity and other specification problems....

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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies.

Fang, H.; Norman, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...

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The Auctioning of a Failing Firm

Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

oligopoly model with an "endogenous valuations" auction model. Thereby, I take into account that, in an oligopoly, a firm …

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Tacit Collusion and Capacity Withholding in Repeated Uniform Price Auctions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

auctions in a symmetric oligopoly with capacity constrained firms. Under both the Market Clearing and Maximum Accepted Price … which the monopoly outcome with equal sharing is sustainable in the uniform price auction, but not in the corresponding … discriminatory auction. Moreover, capacity withholding may be necessary to sustain this outcome. We extend these results to the case …

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