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How Labor Market Institutions Affect Job Creation and Productivity Growth
Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key facto…
Popular Science
Publish date 12/13/2021
Så blir EU mer innovativt och entreprenöriellt
Europaprojektet hotas av den nationalistiska populism som just nu sveper över kontinenten. För att mota den i grind behövs ett optimistiskt alternativ som ger medborgarna framtidstron tillbaka. Att sk…
Report
Publish date 2/15/2021
William J. Baumol: Innovative Contributor to Entrepreneurship Economics
William J. Baumol was one of the most prolific economists of his generation, analyzing a broad range of central economic issues addressing real problems of the world. In this essay, we present and cri…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/10/2021
Varning för den misslyckade industripolitikens återkomst
De storskaliga förtäckta företagsstöden fungerade dåligt på 70-talet. Trots bristen på vetenskapligt stöd har pandemin och kriget i Ukraina lett till en renässans för statlig industripolitik. Men hist…
Op-Ed
Publish date 4/22/2022
Slutreplik: Nyfiken grundforskning kan inte kommenderas fram
Ledande svenska och internationella ekonomer: Problem uppstår när stater, EU och myndigheter försöker styra vilka investeringar som bör göras.
Op-Ed
Publish date 4/25/2022
William J. Baumol: Innovative Contributor to Entrepreneurship Economics
William J. Baumol was one of the most prolific economists of his generation, analyzing a broad range of central economic issues addressing real problems of the world. In this essay, we present and cri…
Book Chapter
Publish date 8/9/2022
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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
Fairness, Flexibility and the Far Right: Understanding the Relationship between Populism, Social Spending and Labor Markets
The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear an…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
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
Test Scores and Economic Growth: Update and Extension
Research indicates that education quality – measured by test scores in international student surveys – predicts economic growth. In this paper, we extend previous findings up to 2016 and analyse test…
Working Paper
Publish date 10/1/2021
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
Digitalization and Productivity Development in Industries
This project is a research collaboration between Ericsson AB and IFN.
In recent years the mass adoption of digital services by industries has emerged as an important factor to spur economic developm…
Research project