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Kill Your Darlings? Do New Aid Flows Help Achieve a Poverty Minimizing Allocation of Aid?
In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors a…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/11/2021
IFN Researcher
The Global Logistic Chain Under Siege in a Post-Covid Era
Based on historical analogies, we emphasize a connection between financial crises and technological shifts where the shift calls for a structural economic transformation. We discuss how political pres…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/15/2021
Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Willingness to Socially Distance
We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing inform…
Journal Article
Publish date 9/27/2021
Does Firm Exit Increase Prices?
This paper examines how changes in product market concentration, specifically firm exit, affect prices. I develop a model where firms have variable markups to show that the remaining firms increase th…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/8/2021
Forskningsprogrammet Globaliseringen och företagen: Slutredovisning avseende juli 2016–juni 2021
Svensk ekonomi är sedan länge i hög grad internationellt integrerad – ett resultat av den globaliseringsprocess som tog fart efter den ekonomiska krisen i början av 1990-talet. Dessutom har den snabba…
Other
Publish date 10/19/2021
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
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What Happens when Municipalities Run Corporations? Empirical Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities
Across the globe, local governments have increasingly begun to rely on municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to provide public services, mounting to what scholars describe as a burgeoning corporatizat…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/3/2020
Risk-Sharing and Entrepreneurship
In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-shar…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/16/2022
What Happens when Municipalities Run Corporations? Empirical Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities
This paper addresses the competing views by studying Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the 1970s. We examine the association between the number of MOCs, citizen sati…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/21/2021
Så kan Österbotten attrahera fler internationella företag
En aktiv näringslivspolitik där tre punkter står i fokus är av stor betydelse för om Österbotten som region ska bli en av coronakrisens vinnare.
Op-Ed
Publish date 7/12/2021
Sweden's Successful Financin of a Strong Welfare System: A Model for Other Countries?
Mårten Blix, IFN, presents his and Henrik Jordahl's book Privatizing Welfare Services –Lessons from the Swedish Experiment at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF.
Event
Publish date 12/14/2021