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2015 - The impact of digitalization on value-creating relationships in the public sector - Lotta Hultin - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR
The development of digital information technology brings radically new opportunities to produce and consume services. In the public sector, these opportunities have the potential...
2015 - Regulation and strategies: international cartels in the 20th century - Susanna Fellman - Gothenburg School of Economics
Cartels and competition policy are perennial topics of political debate, particularly in European politics. At the end of the 20th century, there were...
2015 - Sweden's man in London during World War II - Björn Prytz's private archive - Martin Fritz
Almost by coincidence, I have been given the opportunity to take part in an unusually interesting archive material, namely...
2015 - New financing options for central welfare services - John Lapidus - Gothenburg School of Economics
The Swedish welfare model is undergoing changes. This includes the extensive privatization of central welfare services that began at the beginning of the 20th century.
2015 - Competition in the grocery sector - Florin Maican - Institute for Business Research
Grocery shopping accounts for a large share of private consumption. Along with large stores in external locations, there are today...
2015 - External reporting and corporate relations in the capital market - Gunnar Wahlström - University of Gothenburg, GRI
The present project intends to critically analyze the changes in external accounting in recent years. One such change is the introduction of IFRS...
2015 - Poor relief and the ballot paper: the economic stratification of voting rights after 1921 - Fia Sundevall - Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och biblotek
The project aims to explore the limitations of political citizenship of people on welfare after the democratic breakthrough. When so-called universal suffrage was introduced...
2015 - Stage III The European commodity and credit market in pre-industrial times - Magnus Andersson - Gothenburg School of Economics
The trade that drove development and transformed Gothenburg's role as a gateway and enabled greater financial integration was the...
2015 - Market Dynamics Patterns, a PhD program - Hans Kjellberg - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR
Although markets can be efficient mechanisms for resource allocation under certain conditions, their societal importance is rather linked to the ability to...
2015 - Do male-dominated environments affect gender differences in performance and career choice? - Anna Sandberg - Stockholm University
Today, large and economically significant gender gaps in pay and representation persist. Despite a high female labor force participation rate, the trend towards...
2015 - Financing firms, households and nations after the crisis - Pehr Wissén - Swedish Institute for Financial Research
The SIFR organizes an annual conference on a theme in financial economics. The theme for 2016 is financing of companies, banks and...
2015 - Spices and Socks: Global and Peripheral Consumption Patterns 1600-1850 - Marie Ulväng - Uppsala University, Sweden
What role did Swedish manufactures, abundance regulations and the Norwegian border trade play in the consumption patterns of farmers in inland Sweden? In the forested and...
