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Fredrik Sjöholm new board member of EIJS
Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, has been elected to be a member of the board of the European Institute of Japanese Studies.
News
Publish date 11/15/2021
Graduate Student
Grading Bias and the Leaky Pipeline in Economics: Evidence from Stockholm University
We estimate a substantial female grade gain when being graded anonymously compared to male students in 101-macroeconomics courses. Females graded anonymously are more likely to continue with economics…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/28/2022
IFN Researcher
Industrial Policy and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can benefit host countries by facilitating access to sophisticated technologies, good management and global value chains. However, multinational firms have many alterna…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
The End of a Trend? Retraction of Choice in Swedish Elderly Care
In 2009, Sweden launched a freedom-of-choice reform that gave municipalities the option to introduce standardized quasi-markets in social services. The reform was initially popular to adopt in home ca…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/10/2021
Affiliated Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
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
Investor-State vs. State-State Dispute Settlement
International investment agreements typically permit foreign investors to litigate against host countries (Investor-State Dispute Settlement, ISDS). Yet, common criticism holds that host countries wou…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/14/2018
Exchange Rate Sensitivity and the Net Foreign Asset Composition
Many currencies, especially from countries with negative net foreign assets, depreciate during financial turbulence. Using a panel of 26 currencies for the period April 2002 to December 2019, I show t…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/4/2022
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…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/5/2022
Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms
In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish f…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/29/2022
Import Demand Elasticities Based on Quantity Data: Theory and Evidence
Correct estimates of import demand elasticities are essential for measuring the gains from trade and predicting the impact of trade policies. We show that estimates of import demand elasticities hinge…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/29/2022