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Bilateral Oligopoly.
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670108
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.
Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486498
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Lindh, Thomas; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600201
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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Marketplace
Leamer, Edward E.; Lundborg, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600206
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The Discipline of Imports in the Light of 1992: The Case of Sweden
Hansson, Pär - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990
industries. It addresses two questions. Has the free trade agreement between the EC and EFTA reinforced the disciplinary effect … competition of the free trade agreement, even though the disciplinary effect of imports originating from the less developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818366
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Effects of European Integration on Nordic Exports
Ponte Ferreira, Margarida - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818387
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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Marketplace.
Leamer, E.E.; Lundborg, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671122
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670112
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Firm Productivity and Carbon Leakage: A Study of Swedish Manufacturing Firms
Ferguson, Shon; Sanctuary, Mark - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This paper examines the intensive and extensive margins of carbon leakage. The analysis uses an increase in the Swedish electricity price to identify the impact on imports at the firm and product level. Our model of heterogenous firms predicts that higher domestic electricity prices lead firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885282
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Sizing Up the Impact of Embassies on Exports
Ferguson, Shon; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
The purpose of this study is to test for the effects of trade promotion via the foreign service. We develop a Melitz …-based model where firms are heterogeneous with respect to productivity and must pay a beachhead cost to enter a foreign market …, which can be reduced by government spending on trade promotion. The model predicts that unilateral trade promotion allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887089