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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
Does Precise Case Disclosure Limit Precautionary Behavior? Evidence from COVID-19 in Singapore
Limiting the spread of contagious diseases can involve both government-managed and voluntary efforts. Governments have a number of policy options beyond direct intervention that can shape individuals…
Journal Article
Publish date 12/8/2021
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 that calls for a structural economic transformation. Political pressures related to this stru…
Book Chapter
Publish date 12/13/2021
The Impact of Stay-at-Home Policies on Individual Welfare
This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and repres…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/16/2022
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
Income inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, writes about income inequality in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publiceringsdatum 8/13/2021
This Time is Different? - On the Use of Emergency Measures During the Corona Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused millions to die and even more to lose their jobs, it has also prompted more governments to simultaneously declare a state of emergency than ever before enabli…
Journal Article
Publish date 7/15/2021
Attityder och beteenden under covid-19-pandemin
Sverige valde en annan väg under pandemin. Men vad tyckte egentligen svenskarna om strategin och hur utvecklades synen på strategin över tiden? Vad kännetecknar de som fann de svenska åtgärderna tillr…
Article in Swedish
Publish date 9/22/2021
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
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…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/22/2022
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
The pandemic and its implications on trust
Sweden has one of the highest trust levels in the world. At a recent policy seminar, research on how the pandemic has affected trust levels in Sweden was presented.
News
Publish date 2/22/2022