Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Latest publications

Labor Market Institutions, Job Creation and Productivity Growth: Organizing Labor Markets to Boost Job Opportunities and Social Welfare

Economic growth necessitates extensive churning and restructuring, the bulk of which is about shifts from less to more successful firms within the same industry. Labor market institutions favoring reallocation and dynamism include portability of tenure rights, fully actuarial and portable pension plans, a full decoupling of health insurance from the current employer, decentralized and…

Policy Papers

by Magnus Henrekson
Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice

Published articles in English

by Shon Ferguson and Sara Formai
Mixed Strategies in Discriminatory Divisible-good Auctions

Published articles in English

by Edward J. Anderson, Pär Holmberg and Andrew B. Philpott

News

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.
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.
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.
A competitive EU at the right price

2013-02-06
The anthology " Ett konkurrenskraftigt EU till rätt pris “ (A competitive EU at the right price) was presented at a seminar in Stockholm on February 6. Participation was among other Birgitta Olsson, Minister for EU-affairs, and Mikael Damberg (S). Panelists were IFN researchers Pär Holmberg and Thomas Tangerås, who also wrote a chapter in the book. So did Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne, both IFN. One of the editors, Lars Oxelheim, is affiliated to IFN.

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Calendar

21

May

European Integration in Swedish Economic Research

Public activities

Lars Oxelheim and SNEE
22

May

Heterogeneous Firms and Credit Frictions: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Market Entry Decisions

Research seminars

Sara Formai Bank of Italy
27

May

Foreign Bidders, Public Bidders and Gains to Target Shareholders

Brown bag seminars

Conny Overland Gothenburg University

Research Fellow

Pär Holmberg

Research interests: Electricity markets and auctions.

Among the questions that Pär Holmberg tries to answer with his research:

What is the bidding behavior of producers in wholesale electricity markets and how is it affected by market rules and regulations?
To which extent is financial contracts used in the electricity market and how do these affect the bidding process?

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

2013-04-16 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.

2013-04-09 The American

"Most mothers do not aspire to elite, competitive full-time positions: the Swedish policies have given them the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they prefer. Americans should look past the gender rhetoric and consider what these Scandinavians have achieved. On their way to creating a feminist paradise, the Swedes have inadvertently created a haven for normal mortals", writes Christina Hoff Sommers, American Enterprise Institute. She quotes research by Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula, IFN, why there are so few female top executives in Europe.