Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Latest publications

Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in entrepreneurial firms are compensated and incentivized. We address this gap in the literature by studying 18,935 non-CEO compensation contracts across 1,809 privately held venture-backed companies. Our key finding is that employee compensation varies with the degree to which VCs versus…

Published articles in English

by Ola Bengtsson and John R. M. Hand
Labor Market Institutions, Job Creation and Productivity Growth: Organizing Labor Markets to Boost Job Opportunities and Social Welfare

Policy Papers

by Magnus Henrekson
Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice

Published articles in English

by Shon Ferguson and Sara Formai

News

New Report: Where are Jobs Created?

2013-05-03
On June 4, IFN will hold a seminar to present the ESO-report "Job Dynamics in Swedish industry 1990-2009" (June 2013). The report was commissioned by the Expert group for public economic and written by economists Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson. The researchers have studied the importance of small and new businesses for job creation.
Feldman Received Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2013

2013-05-16
Maryann Feldman, Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, has been awarded the prestigious Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2013. On Wednesday, she received the price during a ceremony in which Anders Borg, Minister for Finance, participated. She held a prize lecture on "The Character of Place: Economic Development, Business Strategy and Prosperity." The price sum is 100,000 euros. The partners behind the Award are Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (Entreprenörskapsforum) and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Vinnova is sponsoring the price and businessman Melker Schörling is a donor.
Economic Research on European Integration

2013-05-17
For the 15th year in a row, an international scientific conference on European integration is organized in Mölle, Skåne. Professor Lars Oxelheim, IFN and Lund University, Chairman of the Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business (SNEE), is in charge of the event. Included on this year's list of 150 guests are Richard Sweeney, Georgetown University and Rym Ayadi, researcher at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. Several journalists will also attend, including Adrian Wooldridge from The Economist. Among the speakers during the four-day conference can be found approximately ten researchers from IFN.
Corruption in Sweden

2013-04-09
What if Sweden is like Iceland, warns researcher Andreas Bergh and refers to the report "Public benefit or personal gain? ESO report on corruption in Swedish." The report which has IFN researchers Andreas Bergh and Richard Öhrvall as co-authors was released on April 9. Corruption was basically unknown in regards to Iceland until the financial crisis exposed irregularities.
IFN Researchers in the First Place

2013-04-02
It is part of an IFN-researchers job to communicate their research beyond the research community. In terms of academic economists published in the largest Swedish morning paper Dagens Nyheter and its op-ed section (DN Debatt) between 2010 and 2012, IFN-researchers were in a leading position. 23 main opinion pieces had at least one IFN-researcher as co-author.
Frank Wolak Visiting Professor at IFN

2013-03-21
Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten), Professor Frank Wolak, electricity market researchers at Stanford University, will be visiting professor at IFN for six months in 2014. His stay in Sweden is made possible by the prestigious visiting professorship AES (the Swedish Energy Agency’s research program General Energy system studies).
Will information on quality and results change the health care system?

2013-03-06
Within the framework of cooperation between IFN and SNS a seminar was held on March 6. The question asked was "how to measure quality and outcomes of health care?". Elliott Fisher, leading expert in the American health care debate, together with Johan Calltorp, professor at the Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare, shared their perspectives. In the photo: Elliots Fisher, left, and Johan Calltorp.
Assar Lindbeck among the 100 most influential Swedes

2013-02-06
Professor Assar Lindbeck, IFN, is among Sweden's most important opinion makers. At number 71, he is the only scholar on this list. On the supplementary list of names that ended up "almost among the 100 most important" are two futher academics: Professor Lars Calmfors, Stockholm University and Professor Magnus Henrekson, IFN.

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Calendar

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May

Foreign Bidders, Public Bidders and Gains to Target Shareholders

Brown bag seminars

Conny Overland Gothenburg University
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May

Does Privatization of Vocational Rehabilitation Improve Labour Market Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden

Research seminars

Peter Skogman Thoursie Stockholm University
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May

Measuring the Benefits of Delayed Price-Responsive Demand in Reducing Wind-Uncertainty Costs

Brown bag seminars

Ramteen Sioshansi Ohio State University

Research Fellow

Henrik Jordahl

Research interests: Publicly funded services, quasi-markets, privatization and voting behavior.

Among the questions that Henrik Jordahl tries to answer with his research:

Why are publicly funded services sometimes contracted out to private providers and sometimes produced in-house by the public sector?
How can laws, rules and practices be changed to improve the production of publicly funded services?

International cooperation

Collaborating with others is essential for IFN as a research institute. Our researchers co-author articles with colleagues from other institutes, and many also teach at various universities and colleges.

As part of our extensive program of guest researchers, leading international researchers visit the institute. The visitors present and pursue their research as well as interact and cooperate with researchers at IFN.

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Institutional Entrepreneurship

Most recent book

Editors: Magnus H enr ekson and Tino Sanandaji

This comprehensive volume builds on Baumol’s 1990 framework to categorize and classify the growing research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship.

It also contains the unique feature of examining the ways in which entrepreneurs themselves shape institutions.

Global Award

Research on entrepreneurship

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship.This Prize is awarded annually with a prize sum of EUR 100,000.

IFN in cooperation with Entreprenörskapsforum and VINNOVA are the principals of the award.

Professor Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the 2013 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.

Media

IFN in the news

2013-05-15 Washington Post

Max Fisher, Washington Post, writes about the research of Niclas Berggren, IFN, and Therese Nilsson, IFN and Lund University. They examine whether economic freedom is related to tolerance towards people of a different race and to tolerance towards homosexuals. Fisher's article has rendered more than 2,300 comments on Washington Post's web site, 60,000 likes on Facebook and more than 4,500 tweets (by May 20, 2013).

2013-04-16 Bloombergs

Sweden’s economic elite are debating whether governments with oversized bank industries need to demand even tougher capital standards than those agreed after the latest wave of regulatory tightening. “Ideally, the capital requirements for banks should be raised substantially,” said Assar Lindbeck, Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in an interview with Bloombergs.