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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis

Bergman, Mats A.; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207063

Globalization and the Inequality of Nations

Krugman, Paul; Venables, Anthony J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611599

Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms

Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

This paper analyses the effect on agglomeration tendencies of allowing firms to become multi-region firms in a standard …-periphery (CP) model developed by Krugman (1991). The introduction of horizontal multi-region firms dampens the strong agglomeration …, agglomeration tendencies are strengthened. Second, actual production tends to be more spread out, and, in this sense, they are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645400

Multinational Corporations, Country Characteristics, and Clustering in Foreign Direct Investment

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818506

Inequality and Trust

Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the negative relationship: social ties (or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029285

Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

This paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. The theoretical framework shows that less assimilated ethnic unemployed workers are more likely to use their friends and family as their main method of search but they have less chance of finding a job using this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419500

Inequality and Trust in Sweden: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others

Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy, we find that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645359

Political Polarization and the Size of Government

Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We study the effect of political polarization on government spending and redistribution using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Politically polarized countries have lower levels of redistribution and government consumption. The relationship...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645372

Trust and Growth: A Shaky Relationship

Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time period and a bigger sample than in previous studies. In addition to robustness tests that focus on model uncertainty, we systematize the investigation of outlier influence on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645408

Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data

Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818483