and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden … had one of the most regulated business sectors in the developed world. In the 1990s, however, Sweden reformed its labour … the Swedish experience by examining factors that appear to be specific to Sweden and others that can be generalized to …

unique establishment data for the total population of the lodging industry for Sweden makes it possible to analyse jointly … 2005-2010. 2SLS estimates show that high price establishments show a significantly higher output growth rate between 2005 …

limited liability firms in Sweden during the period 1997-2008. The results of fractional logit regressions indicate that …

decisions, productivity, and firm performance. While input tariff liberalization directly affects input price benefits of …

associated with better productivity growth. Rising concentration has also been associated with widening margins of price over … input costs. On balance, the net price effects are trivial. Accordingly some skepticism about tougher merger policy may be …

Price adjustments, particularly the cost pass-through relationships, are at the core of the analysis on how asymmetric …

Manufacturers with wholesale price indices from the Bank of Japan, and Herfindahl indices from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. The … price-cost margins tend to be more concentrated. Cross-section estimates reveal a U-shaped mapping from concentration to …