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Working Paper No. 1485
Labor Market Effects of a Youth Summer Employment Program in Sweden
We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16–19 in Stockholm, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contras…
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Journal of Applied Econometrics
Peer Desirability and Academic Achievement
Using the random assignment of university engineering students to peer groups during introductory freshmen weeks, this paper studies how a student's parental income and facial attractiveness affect th…
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Asian Economic Papers
Navigating the New Normal: The European Union's Changing Stance on Globalization in the Era of Trade Conflicts
The European Union (EU) is becoming more inward looking and more hesitant towards globalization. This paper examines recent transformations in EU's economic policies, with a focus on international tra…
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Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy
Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways
This chapter integrates findings from several different case studies on mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) and makes use of the existing literature to briefly describe three other missions:…
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Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy
R&D Tax Incentives as an Alternative to Targeted R&D Subsidies
Governments can provide targeted R&D subsidies and/or tax incentives to spur innovation and growth in the business sector. This chapter analyzes the theoretical pros and cons of these policy instr…
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Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy
Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy
The notion that society should be organized around large so-called missions has gained momentum in public debate, and the reemergence of active industrial policy across the world has been inspired by…
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Bottom-Up Policies Trump Top-Down Missions
Mission-oriented innovation policies are becoming increasingly popular among policymakers and scholars. We maintain that these policies are based on an overly mechanistic view of innovation and econom…
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Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy – Questioning the Mission Economy
This open access book raises some central questions: Do we need moonshot policies to spur innovation and economic growth? What are the risks associated with such policies?
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Telecommunications Policy
How Is Mobile Broadband Intensity Affecting CO2 Emissions? – A Macro Analysis
This paper investigates the association between relative mobile broadband penetration (i.e. mobile broadband connections in total mobile connections) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions globally. The s…
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SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Productivity Growth in the Swedish Business Sector
SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Productivity Growth in the Swedish Business Sector
Productivity in Sweden, measured as GDP per hour worked, has in recent decades been among the highest in the world. The fact that Swedish wealth measured as GDP per capita is still not among the highe…
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Working Paper No. 1484
Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy
The notion that society should be organized around large so-called missions has gained momentum in public debate, and the reemergence of active industrial policy across the world has been inspired by…
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory
Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the e…
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Journal of Urban Economics
Collaboration and Connectivity: Historical Evidence from Patent Records
Why has collaboration become increasingly central to technological progress? We document the role of lowered travel costs by combining patent data with the rollout of the Swedish railroad network in t…
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Journal of Economic History
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”
This paper examines the identity and origins of Swedish inventors prior to World War I drawing on the universe of patent records linked to census data. We document that the rise of innovation during S…
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Powering Britain: The UK’s Future Energy Mix
Energy Policy for the Future? Government or Markets?
No matter whether one belives climate change is a major threat to humanity or a minor bump on the road to global prosperity, most Western governments have set clear goals for how much they aim to redu…
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Journal of Comparative Economics
Immigrants from More Tolerant Cultures Integrate Deeper into Destination Countries
We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants’ background culture. We hypothesize that it is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new countr…
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Working Paper No. 1483
The EU’s Competitive Advantage in the 'Clean-Energy Arms Race'
The net-zero agreement on carbon emission from Paris 2015 gives a key role to fossil-free energy technologies with an expected multifold growth rate over the coming decades, when successively replacin…
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Working Paper No. 1482
The Working Capital Channel
The New Keynesian model, augmented with the working capital channel, predicts that a rise in the policy rate causes firms that use more working capital to increase their prices more, and that the pass…
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History of Prices and Wages in Medieval Sweden, Volume I – Statistics and Analysis
The High and Late Middle Ages in Sweden were revolutionary periods characterized by an economy that went from local self-sufficiency in the countryside to increased division of labour and emerging cit…
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History of Prices and Wages in Medieval Sweden, Volume II – Database
The High and Late Middle Ages in Sweden were revolutionary periods characterized by an economy that went from local self-sufficiency in the countryside to increased division of labour and emerging cit…
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Journals of Gerontology: Series B
Very Early-Life Risk Factors for Developing Dementia: Evidence from Full Population Registers
We identify dementia risk factors using demographic data for Swedish cohorts 1932–1950. Factors are advanced maternal age, sibling spacing, and twin births. These factors increase dementia risk, espec…
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Working Paper No. 1481
Paying with Personal Data
We study commercialization of personal data through personalized advertising by a content platform. Content consumption generates productive data about consumer preferences. The firm invests in artifi…
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Working Paper No. 1480
Type 1 Diabetes and Youth Sports in Sweden: A Field Experiment on Discrimination
This study evaluated discrimination against children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in Swedish sports clubs through a field experiment. Two fictitious fathers sent emails to 193 top-division clu…
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Working Paper No. 1479
Investment Treaties and the Replacement of Stranded Investment
A common claim holds that investment treaties reduce the willingness of host countries to regulate foreign-owned, environmentally-stranded, investments. A counter-argument is that the treaties can yie…
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Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity – An Integrated Policy Framework
Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to mention a…
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International Tax and Public Finance
The Impact of COVID-19 on Economic Activity: Evidence from Administrative Tax Registers
We use population-wide tax register data to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firm sales, tax revenues, and sick pay in Sweden. The pandemic impact is identified using within-year, betwe…
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Working Paper No. 1478
Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways
This paper integrates findings from several different case studies on Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIPs) and makes use of existing literature to briefly describe three other missions: The Wa…
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Energy Journal
A Survey of Capacity Mechanisms: Lessons for the Swedish Electricity Market
Many electricity markets use capacity mechanisms to support generation owners. Capacity payments can mitigate imperfections associated with “missing money” in the spot market and solve transitory capa…
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Working Paper No. 1477
Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring
Many countries’ insolvency systems focus on restructuring financial liabilities, and ignore operational liabilities such as leases and long-term supplier contracts. We model insolvency procedures with…
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Working Paper No. 1476
Free to Improve? The Impact of Free School Attendance in England
We investigate the impact of attending a free school in England – that is, a new start-up school that enjoys considerable autonomy while remaining in the state sector. We analyse the effects of two se…
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Economics Letters
Intergenerational Transmission of Luck Versus Effort Beliefs
Beliefs about whether luck or effort determines individuals’ economic outcomes in life (luck vs effort beliefs) are central for individuals’ opinions on inequality and political preferences. Those who…
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Public Money & Management
Municipally Owned Corporations in Sweden: A Cautionary Tale
Over the past 30 years, the use of municipally owned corporations (MOCs) has increased rapidly in Sweden. Proponents of MOCs claim that they promote efficiency. However, at the same time, critics stre…
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Working Paper No. 1475
From Wall Street to Work Floor: How Private Equity Buyouts Affect Workers
Private equity buyouts have sparked debates among labor unions and worker representatives on how they affect workers. This chapter provides an overview of academic evidence on how private equity buyou…
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Economics & Politics
Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Tacit Collusion in Politics
We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equ…
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Kyklos
Misrepresentation and Migration
In a representative democracy politicians should either implement policies that voters want or policies that politicians believe are in voters long-term interest, even if voters currently oppose them.…
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Small Business Economics
Why Generative AI Can Make Creative Destruction More Creative But Less Destructive
The application of machine learning (ML) to big data has become increasingly important. We propose a model where firms have access to the same ML, but incumbents have access to historical data. We sho…
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Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom
Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom
This chapter is the introduction to the Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom, an overview of research on the causes and consequences of the market economy. The chapter places current research in a…
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Working Paper No. 1474
Bottom-Up Policies Trump Top-Down Missions
Mission-oriented innovation policies are becoming increasingly popular among policymakers and scholars. We maintain that these policies are based on an overly mechanistic view of innovation and econom…
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Working Paper No. 1473
Freedom of Expression and Social Conflict
The association between freedom of expression – freedom of speech and the freedom of the media – and social conflict is theoretically ambiguous and politically highly contested. On one side of the deb…
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Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
On the Curvature of Homogeneous Function
Consider a quasiconcave, upper semicontinuous and homogeneous of degree $\gamma$ function $f$. This paper shows that the reciprocal of the degree of homogeneity, $1/\gamma$, can be interpreted as a me…
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Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies
Labour Market Discrimination: Method and Measurement
We review the most common methods that have been used to detect discrimination, and their pros and cons. One approach is to compare outcomes of workers from different groups using observational data.…
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Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies
Labour Market Discrimination: Ethnicity and Race
Field experiments has been conducted in several countries and the results points in the same direction: Ethnic and racial minorities are discriminated against in the hiring decision. We review results…
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Journal of Public Economics
The Electoral Consequences of Environmental Accidents: Evidence from Chernobyl
This paper examines the relationship between environmental accidents and voting. Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, environmentalist parties entered parliaments in several nations. This paper u…
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Working Paper No. 1472
Independent-School Competition and Sweden's Performance in TIMSS
This paper analyses the effects of independent-school competition on Sweden’s performance in TIMSS, an international low-stakes test in mathematics and science among students in year 8. Exploiting var…
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Corporate Governance: An International Review
On the Role of Internationalization of Firm-Level Corporate Governance: The Case of Audit Committees
Motivated by agency theory and arguments from linguistic studies, we argue in this paper the internationalization of a firm’s audit committee to be associated with weaker firm-level corporate governan…
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Perintövero ei ole välttämättä perheyritykselle pahasta
Tanskalaisessa huippututkimuksessa havaittiin, että toimitusjohtajan valitseminen perhepiiristä keskimäärin heikentää yrityksen tuottavuutta.
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Taxing the Wealthy: The Choice Between Wealth and Capital Income Taxation
This paper analyses the relative merits of wealth and capital income taxes as instruments for taxing the rich. The main rationale for a wealth tax is to address the incompleteness of the tax code in t…
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
We document the time it took for ridesharing to become legalized at the state level across the United States following its local (and often illegal) rollout. States with greater regulatory freedom pas…
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Working Paper No. 1471
Does Capitalism Disfavor Women? Evidence from Life Satisfaction
There is widespread concern, especially in certain feminist circles, that a market-oriented economic system, or capitalism, disfavors women. This could take many forms, such as lower wages for the sam…
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Economics of Innovation and New Technology
Political Failure: A Missing Piece in Innovation Policy Analysis
Within the field of innovation studies, researchers have identified systematic failures that hamper investment in R&D, innovation, and growth. Accordingly, researchers in this field often seek to…
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Does Globalization Suppress Social Trust?
Some worry that openness undermines important cultural values. We study whether globalization has reduced social trust in Europe and find, using a sample of immigrants to rule out reverse causality, t…
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Small Business Economics
Inventions, Commercialization Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers in SMEs
Despite the comprehensive previous research on different aspects of inventions and externalities spanning both the micro and macro levels, no prior studies have, to our knowledge, examined the relatio…
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Working Paper No. 1470
Climate Policy and Trade in Polluting Technologies
This study estimates the impact of carbon pricing on international trade in equipment used in the combustion of fossil fuels during the period 1995–2021. Using detailed data on bilateral trade combine…
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Journal of Public Economic Theory
Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Education in the Presence of Income-Misreporting
We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both…
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Journal of the European Economic Association
The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment
This article estimates a dynamic structural model of firm R&D investment in twelve Swedish manufacturing industries and uses it to measure rates of return to R&D and to simulate the impact of…
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Review of Income and Wealth
Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemi…
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Working Paper No. 1469
The Return of Borders in the World Economy: An EU-Perspective
This paper examines the European Union's changing perspective on globalization, reflecting a shift from its traditionally open, rules-based trade policy. The rise of internal protectionist measures, c…
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Review of International Organizations
Aid and Institutions: Local Effects of World Bank Aid on Perceived Institutional Quality in Africa
Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institution…
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Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Testing for Weak Separability and Utility Maximization with Incomplete Adjustment
We develop models for weakly separable utility maximization with incomplete adjustment. By allowing for incomplete adjustment, these models account for the decision maker's inability to instantaneousl…
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Working Paper No. 1468
The Profit Motive in the Classroom—Friend or Foe?
Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system’s capacity for…
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Journal of Economic Inequality
COVID-19 and Income Inequality: Evidence from Monthly Population Registers
We measure the distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is…
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Journal of Evolutionary Economics
The Evolution of Owner-Entrepreneurs’ Taxation: Five Tax Regimes over a 160-Year Period
The institutional literature suggests that long-term tax incentives are crucial for entrepreneurs, but studies on this topic are hampered by theoretical and empirical problems related to how to define…
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Stata Journal
Consistent Subsets: Computing the Houtman-Maks Index in Stata
The Houtman-Maks index is a measure of the size of a violation of utility maximizing (i.e., rational) behavior. This note introduces the Stata command hmindex, which calculates the Houtman-Maks index…
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Economics & Politics
Group Threat and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Refugee Placement Program
We study the impact of refugee inflows on voter turnout in Sweden in a period when shifting immigration patterns made the previously homogeneous country increasingly heterogeneous. Analyzing individua…
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Small Business Economics
Saras Sarasvathy: Recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Professor Saras Sarasvathy is the recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Her research contributions have fundamentally changed and invigorated the conversation in the domain…
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Corporate Governance: An international Review
The Impact of Indigenous Culture and Business Group Affiliation on Corporate Governance of African Firms
This study outlines how the corporate governance of emerging market firms is influenced by corporate affiliation and institutional embeddedness. We argue that the stronger the business group affiliati…
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Constitutional Political Economy
Ballooning Bureaucracy? Stylized Facts of Growing Administration in Swedish Higher Education
All organizations need to allocate labor to production and administration. In many cases – particularly within the public sector – the optimal allocation is far from obvious. Indeed, vocal concerns ha…
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Working Paper No. 1467
Wind Power and the Cost of Local Compensation Schemes: A Swedish Revenue Sharing Policy Simulation
Local resistance towards wind power is a central challenge for the energy transition, implying that legally imposed compensation schemes for nearby residents may become more prevalent in the near futu…
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Working Paper No. 1466
Navigating the New Normal: The European Union's Changing Stance on Globalization in the Era of Trade Conflicts
The European Union (EU) is becoming more inward looking and more hesitant towards globalization. This paper examines recent transformations in EU's economic policies, with a focus on international tra…
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Working Paper No. 1465
The Changed Geopolitical Map: Implications for Business Policy in a Sustainable Finance Perspective
The paper acknowledges the changed geopolitical map and the new adjacent political mindset and examines the current state of the relationship between MNEs and governments/central banks. The focus is o…
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Working Paper No. 1464
Wind Power Approval, Decentralization, and NIMBYism: Evidence from the Swedish Greens
Green parties are commonly seen as strong proponents of wind power. This paper presents an alternative view, examining data from the highly decentralized institutional setup in Sweden where approval o…
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Independent Review
The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality
This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge—from which virtually all other aspects of a school are derived: the content of its curricula, its peda…
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International Migration Review
Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere?
We present estimates of the number of refugees expected to flee Ukraine and to which countries they are expected to migrate based on migration preferences data from the Gallup World Poll (GWP). This i…
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Leadership Quarterly
CEO Health
Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze CEO health and its determinants and outcomes. We find CEOs are in much better health than the population and on par with other high-skill p…
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Working Paper No. 1463
The Effect of Financial Constraints on Inventory Holdings
This paper investigates the impact of financial constraints on firms’ inventory holdings, an area of significant interest given that inventories are volatile over the business cycle. I use detailed da…
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Working Paper No. 1462
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”
This paper examines the identity and origins of Swedish inventors prior to World War I drawing on the universe of patent records linked to census data. We document that the rise of innovation during S…
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Working Paper No. 1461
Family Firms: In All Shapes and Sizes
We study the heterogeneity of family firms using registry data on all private firms in Sweden. We restrict our sample to firms with at least one employee, and we define a family firm as a firm where t…
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Canadian Journal of Economics
Globalization, Recruitments, and Job Mobility
Previous research indicates that firms pay a premium to poach workers from exporting firms if experience working for an internationally engaged firm reduces trade costs. Since international experience…
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Journal of Technology Transfer
Sourcing Applied and Basic Knowledge for Innovation and Commercialization Success
We study how sourcing of applied and basic knowledge is related to the likelihood and speed at which inventions become innovations as well as their profitability. By using a patent database with uniqu…
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Working Paper No. 1460
Multi-Unit Auctions with Uncertain Supply and Single-Unit Demand
We study multi-unit auctions where bidders have single-unit demand and asymmetric information. For symmetric equilibria, we identify circumstances where uniform-pricing is better for the auctioneer th…
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Working Paper No. 1459
The Different Returns to Cognitive Ability in the Labor and Capital Markets
We investigate the returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets. Using population-wide Swedish military enlistment data and administrative tax records, we find that cognitive ability…
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Chicago Booth
Children of Workers Impacted by Automation Are More Likely To Experience Lower Income Mobility
A new empirical study examines whether advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income mobility. The authors find that parents’ exposure to new technologies is associate…
Popular Science
Structural Change, Match Quality, and Integration in the Labor Market
Doctoral Dissertation, Economic Studies 208
The market for labor is crucial in many respects. Nearly all persons interact with it throughout much of their lives. Moreover, individuals make significant life choices and substantial investments in…
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Asian Economic Papers
The Belt and Road Initiative: Economic Causes and Effects
Chinese investment abroad has grown significantly in connection with the Belt and Road Initiative. This article tries to answer two questions: first, what considerations gave birth to the BRI? And sec…
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Working Paper No. 1458
The Impact of Relative CEO Pay on Employee Productivity
In this study, we examine the relationship between within-firm pay inequality and employee productivity. We use hand-collected data on a sample of S&P 1500 companies from 2018-2022 and find a conc…
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Working Paper No. 1457
Importing Automation and Wage Inequality through Foreign Acquisitions
Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that f…
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Education Economics
Lifelong Learning and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden
We study the relationship between adult education and training (AET) and employment in Sweden. Exploiting rich data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, and using…
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Working Paper No. 1456
The Effect of Centrally Bargained Wages on Firm Growth
I study how firms adapt to exogenous changes in labor costs induced by collective bargaining agreements. I use data on collective bargaining agreements in Sweden and study the impact of the nationwide…
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Job Opportunities for Refugees: An Experimental Study
We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly…
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International Business Review
The Influence of Business Groups on Board Composition in Offshore financial Multinational Enterprises
Based on resource dependence theory we argue for an influence of business groups (BGs) on the board composition of constituent offshore financial multinational enterprises (FMNEs). Using a unique sam…
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European Journal of Political Economy
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
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European Journal of Political Economy
Press Freedom, Market Information, and International Trade
Does quality information affect international trade? We show theoretically how firms, in the absence of trustworthy information, may restrict their export activity. Exploring bilateral export flows ac…
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Review of Economics and Statistics
Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation
We exploit exogenous variation arising from the historical rollout of the Swedish railroad network across municipalities to identify the impacts of improved transport infrastructure on innovative acti…
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Populism and Inequality: Does Reality Match the Populist Rhetoric?
Populists argue for redistribution from an elite to "ordinary people". The present paper asks if populist administrations actually achieve redistribution. Combining new data on populism in Latin Ameri…
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Working Paper No. 1455
Nonresponse Bias in Trust Surveys
Social trust is typically measured using surveys that ask people if they agree that most people can be trusted. A potential problem is that falling response rates plague these surveys. If non-response…
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Working Paper No. 1454
Why Big Data Can Make Creative Destruction More Creative – But Less Destructive
The application of machine learning (ML) to big data has become increasingly important. We propose a model where firms have access to the same ML, but incumbents have access to historical data. We sho…
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Industry and Innovation
Coding for Intangible Competitive Advantage - Mapping the Distribution and Characteristics of Software-Developing Firms in the Swedish Economy
Software is at the core of digitalisation and is often claimed to play a central role in innovation and in shaping competition across industries and firms. There are yet few studies of the extent and…
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The EU Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The Road Ahead for the European Union: Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The sixth volume in the Interdisciplinary European Studies assesses the changes that are taking place in the EU’s policies, institutions, and political structures. On the eve of a new chapter of Europ…
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The EU Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The State of European Integration: Where Does the EU Stand and in What Direction Is It Heading?
In the concluding chapter, the editors take stock of the state of integration seventy years after the EU’s inception. In the early 2020s, the EU faces once again the fateful question of whether integr…
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