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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…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/21/2022
Social Trust and Patterns of Growth
The association between social trust and economic growth is well-documented but how it works remains an open theoretical and empirical question. The paper uses growth accounting to break down sources…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/15/2022
Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship: Coveted by Policymakers but Impervious to Top-Down Policymaking
Differentiating various types of entrepreneurs provides clues to the puzzle of why top-down policies often fail to create Schumpeterian entrepreneurship and the ecosystems where it thrives. Schumpeter…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/1/2022
Does Economic Freedom Boost Growth for Everyone?
While the association between economic freedom and long‐term economic growth has been well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full o…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/4/2021
Late Colonial Antecedents of Modern Democracy
Some of the most contested questions in political science and political economy revolve around the conditions under which democratization is likely to happen and when democracy becomes a stable instit…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/24/2021
Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom
This project entails two interrelated core themes: Can institutions embodying economic freedom, contrary to the skepticism of some, contribute to fairness, trust, equality and responsibility; and can…
Research project
The Fatal Conceit: Swedish Education after Nazism
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German, Neo-Humanist pedagogical principles in favor of a progressive, student-centered…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/29/2022
Do Firms in Rural Regions Lack Access to Credit? Local Variation in Small Business Loans and Firm Growth
We investigate whether bank loans specifically designed to reduce credit constraints for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have different impacts depending on where the firm is located. Using…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/27/2022
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
Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World
There is scant systematic empirical evidence on what explains variation in academic freedom. Making use of a new indicator and panel data covering 64 countries 1960–2017, we investigate how de facto a…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/19/2021
Ballooning Bureaucracy: Tracking the Growth of High-Skilled Administration within Swedish Higher Education
Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizatio…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/19/2021
A Time to Plot, a Time to Reap: Coups, Regime Changes and Inequality
A vast economic literature examines the welfare gains and distributional consequences of economic reforms, while much less is generally known on the relationship of inequality and forced regime change…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World
There is scant systematic empirical evidence on what explains variation in academic freedom. Making use of a new indicator and panel data covering 64 countries 1960–2017, we investigate how de facto a…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/17/2022
Politisk kartellbildning som förklaring till Sverigedemokraternas framgång
Sverigedemokraterna har, i likhet med andra populistiska partier i Europa, vuxit kraftigt i de senaste valen. En trolig förklaring till denna uppgång kan finnas i att Sverigedemokraterna har erbjudit…
Book Chapter
Publish date 1/31/2022
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
Formal institutions, e.g., regulations, are considered crucial determinants of entrepreneurship, but what enables regulatory change when there is a regulatory void, meaning entrepreneurship clashes wi…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/24/2022