Pehr-Johan Norbäck is associate professor in Economics and a researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm. He does research in three main areas: (i) Mergers and acquisitions on international concentrated markets, (ii) Testing the theory of international trade and investments and (iii) Entrepreneurship and the product market.
Publications
"Subsidizing away Exports? A Note on R&D-policy towards Multinational Firms". Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
"The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists" (with Lars Persson). Journal of European Economics Association. 7(6): 1261-1290, 2009. An earlier Working Paper version can be found here.
"Cross-Border Acquisitions and Taxes: Efficiency and Tax Revenues" (with Lars Persson and Jonas Vlachos). Canadian Journal of Economics, 42(4): 1473-1500, Nov 2009. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Microdata" (with Ronald B. Davies and Ayça Tekin-Koru), The World Economy, 32(1): 77-110, 2009. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions Policy in Service Markets" (with Lars Persson). Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 8(3): 269-293, 2008. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Asymmetric Effects of Corruption on FDI: Evidence from Swedish Multinational Firms" (with Katariina Hakkala and Helena Svaleryd). Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(4): 627-642, Nov 2008. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Efficiency and Ownership Structure – The Case of Poland" (with Karl-Markus Modén and Lars Persson). World Economy, 31(3): 437-460, 2008. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Globalization and Profitability of Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions" (with Lars Persson). Economic Theory, 35(2): 241-266, 2008.
"Investment Liberalization - Why a Restrictive Cross-Border Merger Policy Can Be Counterproductive" (with Lars Persson). Journal of International Economics, 72(2): 366-380, 2007. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Endogenous Asset Ownership Structures in Deregulated Markets" (with Lars Persson). European Economic Review, 50(7): 1729-1752, 2006. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Multinational Enterprises and Wage Costs: Vertical FDI Revisited" (with Henrik Braconier and Dieter Urban). Journal of International Economics, 67(2): 446-470, 2005. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Privatization Policy in an International Oligopoly" (with Lars Persson). Economica, 72(288): 635-653, 2005. An earlier WP version can be found here.
”Privatization and Foreign Competition” (with Lars Persson). Journal of International Economics, 62(2): 409-416, 2004. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Reconciling the Evidence of the Knowledge Capital Model" (with Henrik Braconier and Dieter Urban), Review of International Economics, 13(4): 770-786, 2005. An earlier WP version can be found here.
"Multinational Firms, Technology and Location", Journal of International Economics, 54(2): 449-469, 2001.
"Cumulative Effects of Labor Market Distortions in a Developing Country", Journal of Development Economics, 65(1): 135-152, 2001.
"Multinational Firms, Technology and Location", Doctoral Thesis, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 1998.
Teaching
Lecturer, Stockholm School of Economics: 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2009.
Lecturer, Department of Economics, Stockholm University: 1999, 2000 and 2001.