The main focus of my research is on the economic impacts of globalization, including a broad range of aspects in international trade and investments. A common factor in much of this work is a focus on the role of multinational companies, and on home and host country effects of foreign direct investments. Special attention is also given to economic effects of the increased importance of East Asia in general, and of China in particular, as a host of multinational companies.
Recently published scientific work
Will Science and Technoloyg Solve China's Unemployment Problem?, forthcoming, (with Nannan Lundin), Asian Economic Papers.
Cross Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities, forthcoming, (with Katariina Hakkala and Fredrik Heyman), Review of World Economics.
The role of Small Firms in the Technology development of China, forthcoming, (with Nannan Lundin), The World Economy.
in: Leo Dana, Mary Han, Vanessa Ratten, Isabell Welpe (eds.), The
Handbook on Asian Entrepreneuship, Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol. 14(1), pp. 90-104.
Foreign Firms and Chinese Employees (2009), (with Sune Karlsson, Nannan Lundin, and He Ping), The World Economy, Vol. 32(1), pp. 178-201.
Foreign Networks and Exports: Results from Panel Data (2008), (with Sadayuki Takii), Developing Economies, Vol. 46(4), pp. 428-446.
Poverty in Rural Cambodia: The Differentiated Impact of Linkages, Inputs and Access to Land (2008), (with Anders Engvall and Örjan Sjöberg), Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 7(2), pp. 74-95.
The Oil Resources of Timor-Leste: Curse or Blessing? (2008), (with Mats Lundahl), The Pacific Review, Vol. 21(1), pp. 67-86.
Is there Really a Foreign Ownership Wage Premium? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (2007), (with F. Heyman and P. Gustavsson Tingvall), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 73(2), pp. 355-376.
Who Do You Trust? Ethnicity and Trust in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2007), (with P. Håkansson), Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 59(6), pp. 961-976.
State Owned Enterprises and Equitization in Vietnam (2007), in Ari Kokko (ed.), Vietnam after 20 Years of Doi Moi, Hanoi: VASS and UNDP.
Recently Published Reports
Limping on Three Legs: The Development Problem of Timor-Leste (2008), Sida, Country Economic Report 2008:5
Understanding Rural Poverty in Cambodia (2007), (with Anders Engvall and Örjan Sjöberg), Sida, Country Economic Report 2007:1
Recent Working Papers
Multinational Firms and Job Tasks (with Katariina Hakkala and Fredrik Heyman), IFN Working Paper No. 781.
FDI, Market Structure and R&D Investments in China (with Nannan Lundin, Ping He, and Jinchang Qian), IFN Working Paper No. 708.
Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Dispersion (with Fredrik Heyman and Patrik Gustavsson-Tingvall), IFN Working Paper No. 675.
Other
Towards a co-ordinated macroeconomic expansion among Asian economies, (with members of the Asian Economic Panel), Financial Times, Economists' Forum, 2008-11-13