Publikationer

We show how an extended theory of fair wages can be incorporated in the two-by-two Heckscher-Ohlin model. An important feature of the model is the existence of involuntary unemployment. Several result…

An interview survey was designed to explore how personnel managers and senior wage negotiators respond to popular models of the labor market. As in Blinder and Choi (1990), our results indicate that r…

This paper examines the incentives to differentiate products horizontally in a repeated game when redesigning costs are negligible. The main findings are the following. If firms are patient with respe…

The quality of researchers' work in economics and other sciences is generally evaluated through a system of peer review. In an experimental test it is shown that the peer review system can be very ine…

This paper studies pricing and capacity decisions in markets for phone-ordered taxicabs. Taxi firms first choose capacities and then compete in prices. As firm demand increases, so does waiting time.…

This text introduces current evolutionary game theory—where ideas from evolutionary biology and rationalistic economics meet—emphasizing the links between static and dynamic approaches and noncooperat…

What are the characteristics of an environment that is conducive to technological innovation? In recent years several studies have appeared which have emphasized the comprehensive institutional framew…

In an open economy the designers of the tax corporate system have to face the possibility that a too high tax may push capital abroad, through direct investments. This paper analyzes the Swedish corpo…

Based on income growth rates connected with moving and with staying, I determine a decision index and argue that a marginal tax decrease may increase or decrease job mobility . An empirical applicatio…

In this study the additional effect of social capital over and above the contribution of human capital on the income attainment of managers is explored A regression analysis of a 1985 sample of III ex…

This paper provides additional insight on the Lilien 1982 sectoral shift hypothesis (Lilien (1983), Abraham and Katz (1986), Samson (1986), Neelin (1987)) by applying it to Swedish data. Lilien claime…

This paper examines the relationship between product differentiation and the sustainability of collusive pricing in markets for vertically differentiated products. The main finding is that collusion i…

The usual justifications of non-cooperative solution criteria are rationalistic in nature, building on individual rationality and expectation-coordination postulates. In contrast, the ‘as if’ approach…