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Internprissättning i svenska börsnoterade bolag
(2002)Denna rapport presenterar resultaten från en enkätstudie som syftade till att kartlägga förekomsten och val av, samt motiv och syften med, modeller för internprissättning i svenska börsnoterade företag. Enkäter skickades ... -
Investment in Electronic Commerce: Financial Perspectives and Profit Conditions
(2002)Electronic Commerce ("eCommerce") is a concept for trade based upon products and services that are being marketed, contracted, and paid for over the Internet. Consequently, electronic commerce demands for the ... -
Economic Determinants of Public Opinion. About Joining the EMU: The Case of Sweden
(2002)A potential Swedish membership in the third stage of the EMU (the currency union) will be determined in a referendum. The opinion polls preceding this referendum show strong variability in the Swedish public opinion ... -
Software Innovativeness - Knowledge Acquisition, External Linkages and Firm Developmental Processes
(2002)This report covers an empirical research project focused on studying the knowledge acquisition, external linkages and developmental processes in software firms. A large database was been created through 133 interviews ... -
Fri eller ställd. Om friställda industriarbetare i periferin - exemplet Lear i Bengsfors
(2002)I mars 1999 lämnade Lear Corporation i Bengtsfors beskedet att verksamheten tillverkning av säten till Volvo skulle läggas ner. Lear var kommunens i särklass största privata arbetsgivare med drygt 860 anställda och ... -
Competence Systems
(2002)Today, more and more organizations rely upon the competencies of their staffs. This increasing reliance on competence has triggered many organizations to implement competence systems in order to support staff allocation ... -
THE EFFECT OF SICKNESS ON EARNINGS
(2001)The question addressed in this paper is whether sickness history affects annual earnings and hourly wages in Sweden. If poor health makes people less productive, we expect to find a negative effect of previous health ... -
Assessing the Employment Effects of Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden
(2002)Several studies have examined the effects of training programs on employment. Most of them assume that the effects of training are constant for all potential trainees. We use an econometric framework that allows studying ... -
Designing for Local Mobility
(2002)This thesis investigates the characteristics of local mobility from a CSCW perspective using ethnographically informed workplace studies and presents a framework for designing IT support. In this thesis local mobility is ... -
A Structural Model of Childcare, Welfare, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
(2002)This paper considers the simultaneous relationship of the single mother's decision to choose paid childcare, welfare participation and labor supply, and estimates a structural model that allows for a free error covariance. ... -
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
(2001)This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent valuation method, are ... -
Technical efficiency in the Swedish trawl fishery for Norway lobster
(2001)Reducing fleet capacity in European fisheries is an important objective of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. The success of such programmes depends both on the variation and the level of efficiency within the ... -
Airport Marginal Cost Pricing: Discussion and an Application to Swedish Airports
(2002)We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications on the profit ... -
BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents transfer behavior
(2002)We study the motives behind parents' transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they ... -
The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture
(2001)The article analyzes the economic reasons behind the rise of Neolithic agriculture some 10,000 years ago in consideration of evidence that agri-culture was not associated with increasing standards of living. On the basis ... -
Chefskap och generationsskifte
(2002)Studien kartlägger uppfattningar om chefskap som olika generationer chefer är bärare av samt formar. Syftet är även att generera frågeställningar till en fördjupad studie av chefskap och generationsskifte. Resultaten ... -
Stochastic Production and Heterogeneous Risk Preferences: Commercial Fishers Gear Choices
(2001)As long as total effort cannot be completely controlled, a more thorough understanding of fishers' supply response decisions will be beneficial for fishery managers. In this paper, we present a model of fishers' gear ... -
Stiff surprise - coping with surprising discoveries in product development processes
(2001)An incident in a product development project is analysed to see how participants cope differently with surprising situations. This generates cognitive variety in the project team which means that the situation is complex ... -
THE VALUE OF RISK-FREE CIGARETTES - DO SMOKERS UNDERESTIMATE THE RISK?
(2001)The health risk of smoking is valued using the contingent valuation method, applied to a Swedish sample of smokers. The respondents were asked to put a value on newly developed cigarettes with no associated health risks. ...