Thomas Tangerås is associate professor of economics and a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. His main fields of interest are industrial economics and political economics. His current research focuses on (i) electricity markets, (ii) telecommunications and (iii) language policies.
Network competition with income effects, IFN WP 903 (replaces NET Institute WP 10-05), March 2012
Nuclear capacity auctions (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson), IFN WP 892, December 2011
Intense network competition (with Johan Stennek), NET Institute WP 08-36, September 2008
Competition vs. regulation in mobile telecommunications (with Johan Stennek), NET Institute WP 08-09, September 2008
Optimal transmission regulation of an integrated energy market, Energy Economics, forthcoming
Designing electricity auctions: Introduction and overview, Utilities Policy, Vol. 18, Issue 4, December 2010, 163-164
Market power in the Nordic electricity wholesale market: A survey of the empirical evidence (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson), Energy Policy, Vol. 37, Issue 9, September 2009, 3681-3692
Yardstick competition and quality, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 18, Issue 2, Summer 2009, 589-613
Democracy, autocracy and the likelihood of international conflict, Economics of Governance, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 2009, 99-117
Ethnic diversity, civil war and redistribution (with Nils-Petter Lagerlöf), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, Issue 1, March 2009, 1-27
Unilingual versus bilingual education: a political economy analysis (with Javier Ortega), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 6, Issue 5, September 2008, 1078-1108
From rent seeking to human capital: a model where resource shocks cause transitions from stagnation to growth (with Nils-Petter Lagerlöf), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 41, No. 3, August 2008, 760-780
Voter turnout in small referendums (with Morten Søberg), Electoral Studies, Vol. 26, Issue 2, June 2007, 445-459
Collusion-proof yardstick competition, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 83, No. 2, February 2002, 231-254
Elområden viktiga för en effektivare elmarknad (with Pär Holmberg), DN.se Debatt, 5 March 2012
Slöseri att inte genast införa timdebitering av hushållsel (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson), Dagens Nyheter, 11 November, 2011
Investeringar på elmarknaden - fyra förslag för förbättrad funktion (with Sven-Olo Fridolfsson), Rapport till Expertgruppen för miljöstudier 2011:5
Norge låg bakom vinterns rekordhöga svenska elpriser (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson), Dagens Nyheter, 1 October, 2010
Nationella beslut kan bidra till att lösa det globala klimatproblemet, IFN Nyhetsbrev #3, 2010
Släpp fram fler ägare till svenska kärnkraftverk (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson), Svenska Dagbladet, 17 June, 2010
Är vindkraftkooperativens priser marknadsmässiga? Report commissioned by Svensk Vindenergi, 2009
Priserna på elmarknaden måste tåla en granskning (with Sven-Olof Fidolfsson), Dagens Nyheter, 29 December, 2009
Fungerar konkurrensen på elmarknaden? (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson) Ekonomisk Debatt, No. 8, 2009, 21-37
Kollektiv anslutning av TV/bredband - ett konkurrensproblem? Uppdragsforskningsrapport 2009:6, Konkurrensverket, 2009
Piska bättre än morot när hushållen ska spara energi (with Sven-Olof Fridolfsson), Dagens Nyheter, 14 July, 2009
Är mobiltelemarknaden mogen för avreglering? (with Johan Stennek), Ekonomisk Debatt, No. 5, 2007, 60-66
Better regulation of mobile telecommunications (with Johan Stennek), SIEPS European Policy Analysis #1, 2007
Är telemarknaden mogen för avreglering? Forskningen pekar i en annan riktning (with Johan Stennek), IFN Newsletter #1, 2007
Ekonomisk analys av SMP-bedömningar (with Johan Stennek), Report commissioned by Tele2 Sverige AB, 2003
Skälig och marknadsmässig samtrafikersättning (with Johan Stennek), Report commissioned by Tele2 Sverige AB, submitted to Länsrätten i Stockholm, 2002
Comment on Lars Hultkrantz: Telecommunications liberalisation in Sweden: Is ‘intermediate’ regulation viable?, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No.2, Fall 2002, 163-165
Efficiency problems within the adult education initiative – a rudimentary analysis, Report commissioned by the Swedish Agency for Public Management (Statskontoret), 2000