Jacobsson AH Vitrolife Sweden AB, Goteborg, Sweden

Jacobsson AH Vitrolife Sweden AB, Goteborg, Sweden

study on international political economy of two countries, sweden and norway, in international interactions allows us to examine political economy of these two countries as the case study for further understanding of macro patterns of international political economy.  thus, understanding the power of influence of international developments in two economic and political areas in internal relatio...

Sweden and Spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. Both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. As the analysis of Saltman and Duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. In our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

Received July 17, 1997; accepted May 1, 1998. Communicated by Wen-Lian Hsu. *A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’97) Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 890-896, 1997. Research supported in part by NSC under Grant 83-0408-E-008-004. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEER...

P.I.Neyezhmakov – PhD, 1 Deputy General Director on scientific work of National Scientific Center “Institute of Metrology”( Kharkiv, Ukraine), Head of COOMET Secretariat (Euro-Asian cooperation of national metrological institutions) S.I.Zub – senior scientist of NSC “Institute of Metrology”, Kharkiv, Ukraine S.S.Zub – PhD, doctoral candidate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

1 We are very grateful to Masa Fujita for his insightful comments. We have also benefitted from suggestions made by an associate editor, James Foster, Rob Reed, and participants of the Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference at the University of Michigan and of the Regional Science Association International Meetings at Santa Fe. The first and the second authors acknowledge financial support f...