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Sverige behöver en blockkedjestrategi
Blockkedjetekniken är betydligt mer än bara spekulation i kryptovalutor. Sverige behöver en heltäckande strategi för att hänga med i tävlingen om framtidens internet, skriver Joacim Tåg.
Op-Ed
Publish date 1/16/2022
Academic Freedom, Institutions, and Productivity
The issue of what explains differences in the wealth of nations is one of the most classic in economics. We propose de facto academic freedom as an explanatory variable. The main idea is that such fre…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/6/2022
Academic Freedom, Institutions and Productivity
The issue of what explains differences in the wealth of nations is one of the most classic in economics. We propose de facto academic freedom as an explanatory variable. The main idea is that such fre…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/21/2021
Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: An Ecosystem Perspective
Among contemporary economists, Mariana Mazzucato stands out for her emphasis on the importance of innovation to solving pressing challenges and achieve a greater quality of life. However, the type of…
Book Chapter
Publish date 4/25/2022
Innovation Begets Innovation and Concentration: The Case of Upstream Oil & Gas in the North Sea
We investigate the effect of technology adoption on competition by leveraging aunique dataset on production, costs, and asset characteristics for North Sea upstream oil & gas companies. Relying on…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/8/2022
Lost Opportunities: Work during High School, Establishment Closures and the Impact on Career Prospects
Relying on Swedish linked employer-employee data over a 30-year period, I study the importance of work during high school for graduates’ school-to-work transition and labor market outcomes. I show tha…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/25/2021
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Work and Productivity: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity
We propose a model with asymmetric firms where new technologies displace workers. We show that both leading (low-cost) firms and laggard (high-cost) firms increase productivity when automating but tha…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/11/2021
Ethnic Enclaves and Self-Employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden: Ethnic Capital or Enclave Size?
We employ geocoded data to explore the effects of ethnic enclaves in Swedish cities on the propensity of Middle Eastern immigrants to transcend from having no employment to self-employment. We demonst…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/30/2021
Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts th…
Journal Article
Publish date 11/15/2021
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…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/20/2022
Apoteksmarknaden ur ett konkurrensperspektiv
Vilka konkurrensfaktorer som är centrala på den svenska apoteksmarknaden analyseras inom ramen för denna rapport. Författarna har dessutom tagit fram nya mått för hur apotekens kvalitet och service ka…
Report
Publish date 5/4/2022
Customer and Worker Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners: A Web-Based Experiment among Students in Sweden
We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented wi…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/8/2022
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…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/14/2020
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…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/14/2022
Borde vi ha fler enkla jobb?
Den låga andelen enkla jobb i Sverige beror inte på bristande efterfrågan från arbetsgivare, utan på att höga lönenivåer till stor del ”prisat ut” dem från marknaden. De relativt höga lönerna i dessa…
Report
Publish date 6/22/2022
Patent Value Indicators and Technological Innovation
Patent value indicators are used to identify technological innovation. The probability of innovation correlates positively with patent renewal and patent family size, but only weakly with forward cita…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/31/2022