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2013 - Patient experience and medical quality in Swedish primary care - Anna Häger Glenngård - Lund University
Reforms in Swedish primary care in recent years have focused on increased privatization and competition among providers and increased freedom of choice for...
2013 - The importance of family members in family firms: A longitudinal population study of ownership and succession - Carin Holmquist - Stockholm School of Economics
Sweden has Europe's oldest entrepreneurs. 75% of managers in privately owned companies are over 40 years old and as many as 38.4% are in...
2013 - Printing grant for the project "Heads or Tails" - Per Hallén - Gothenburg School of Economics
In 2011, the three-year project "Krona eller klave. Different sides of coins and credits in 19th century Gothenburg". During the...
2013 - Improving pension fund governance - Sven Hemlin - University of Gothenburg, GRI
Together, the public pension funds manage more than SEK 1 trillion in their buffer funds to ensure the financial stability of the pension system over...
2013 - Bidding records and auction outcomes - Pär Holmberg - Swedish Institute for Business Research
The bidding protocol specifies in detail which bids are allowed in an auction. For example, the protocol specifies the price range in which...
2013 - Developing an environment for trade-relevant research - Björn Axelsson - Stockholm School of Economics
The application concerns continued support for a research environment with trade-relevant research at the Stockholm School of Economics. There is a long history of...
2013 - Labor market frictions, wage growth and inequality over the life course - Niklas Engbom - (Princeton University, USA)
There are major international differences in how salaries evolve over careers between the US and Europe: between the ages of 21 and 50...
2013 - Corporate globalization: the organization, the entrepreneur, the innovations - Joakim Gullstrand - Lund University
The project is based on cutting-edge research in international trade that studies firms' export and import decisions. In brief...
2013 - Is schizophrenia a ciliopathy? - Peter Swoboda - Karolinska Institutet
Schizophrenia is a complex, chronic illness that can affect up to 1% of the population. Symptoms include hallucinations, personality disorders, distorted thinking and...
2013 - Laminins - cell differentiation, phenotype stability, pancreatic islet expansion - Karl Tryggvason - Karolinska Institutet
Most cell types in the body are located on or directly attached to thin connective tissue structures (basement membranes) that contain specific laminin proteins that...
2013 - SIFR Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Anders Anderson - Swedish Institute for Financial Research
Every year, the SIFR organizes a conference on a theme in financial economics. This year, the theme is entrepreneurship, which is a...
2013 - Microbial exposure, immunological maturation and allergy development in children - Eva Sverremark-Ekström - Stockholm University
The early years of life are key to the maturation and balance of our immune system. Many factors can influence this, including...
