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Perspectives on the Success and Early History of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI)
Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
The Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research (IUI) was founded in 1939. In less than ten years, IUI grew from a small survey bureau to a leading research institute focused on microeconomic research relevant to industrial development. Based on a number of new commemorative essays and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543205
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Is Tolerance Good or Bad for Growth?
Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance–growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490331
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Industrial Targeting: Defensive or Offensive Strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
This paper introduces an experimental economy with boundedly rational agents that compete with local, and largely incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more or less unbounded, commercial opportunities. Predictability of outcomes at the micro level is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019044
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Centralized Wage Setting, Wage Drift and Stabilization Policies under Trade Unionism
Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684440
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The Economics of Unemployment Insurance: The Case of Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684474
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The Economics of Learning: Price Formation when Acquisition of Information is Possible but Costly
Axell, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684478
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Incentive Contracts for Managers Who Discover and Manage Investment Projects
Campbell, Tim; Marino, Tony - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818320
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Mixed Risk Aversion.
Caballe, J.; Pomansky, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780369
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The Economics of Bounded Rationality, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Evolution
Day, Richard H. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
-rational modes underlie both the erratic perturbations of entrepreneurship and the systematic waves of diffusion they initiate which … possible by financial intermediation. They imply asymmetric changes in individual welfare. The markets for entrepreneurship …, ownership and control that liberate creativity and boundedly rational decision-making, therefore, also lead inevitably to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019055
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211884