Search for dissertations about: "international competition"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 125 swedish dissertations containing the words international competition.

  2. 21. Essays on Endogenous Trade Policies

    Author : Susanna Thede; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International commerce; Internationell ekonomi; pecuniary externalities.; industry concentration; imperfect competition; strategic government interaction; maximum likelihood estimation; logit model; Bilateral trade policy; overall protection;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a collection of essays on endogenous trade policies and may briefly be summarized as follows. The first essay empirically examines determinants of bilateral trade protection originating from normative trade theory, endogenous trade-policy studies, and political arguments put forward in the public debate. READ MORE

  4. 22. Labour productivity and international trade

    Author : Lihong Yun; Lars Lundberg; Adam Szirmai; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labour productivity; labour demand; inter-industry wage premium; export; import penetration; FDI; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : The aims of the four treatises contained in here are to investigate the determinants of export (and FDI) and possible impacts of international trade on labour productivity, labour demand and inter-industry wage premiums. Paper [1] uses shift-share method and augmented production function-approach. READ MORE

  5. 23. To Own the Phone : Spatial Diffusion, Ownership and Regulation of Telephone Service in Argentina, 1878-1990

    Author : Andrés Pedro Lesko; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social geography; supply and demand; development; monopoly; competition; Argentina; spatial diffusion; telecommunications; telephone service; Socialgeografi;

    Abstract : Telephone service in Argentina has since its beginning been characterized as one of the most developed in South America. Regarding its development, two distinct periods can be identified. An initial period of private ownership extended from 1878 to 1946. READ MORE

  6. 24. Administrative Reforms and the Quest for Foreign Investment in China : The Case of Shenzhen

    Author : Maria Sönne; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; China; competition; resource dependence; investment environment; foreign investments; institutions; organizational environment; organization theory; public administration; administrative reforms; Shenzhen; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : This study examines the attempts made by one local government in China, Shenzhen, to improve its investment environment for foreign-invested enterprises through administrative reforms between 1980 and 1997. Three empirical questions are posed: what reforms have been undertaken, what effects have they had and how have changes in the organizational environment affected them. READ MORE

  7. 25. Essays on job turnover, productivity and state-local finance

    Author : Linda Andersson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; risk-sharing; intergovernmental transfers; international competition; job turnover; local and regional governments; openness; R D; spillover; structural change; taxes; TFP growth; vertical external effects;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers on job turnover, productivity and state- local finance.Paper [I] deals with the determinants of the rate of job turnover defined as the change in distribution of employment between and within industries in Swedish manufacturing. READ MORE