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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
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
Ekonomiska krisers dynamik – en ESO-rapport om företagsomställning och strukturomvandling
I en globaliserad värld är många länders ekonomier sammanflätade med varandra. En oväntad negativ utveckling i ett land sprids därför lätt vidare till andra länder och ekonomiska chocker är svåra att…
Report
Publish date 11/29/2021
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
Innovative Entrepreneurship as a Collaborative Effort: An Institutional Framework
We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on a collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), a system of innovation that evolves spontaneously and within which activity takes place through time. A…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/8/2021
Artificiell intelligens skapar ny utflyttningsvåg av jobb
Den snabba utvecklingen inom artificiell intelligens och maskininlärning leder till en utflyttningsvåg av jobb till låglöneländer som ingenjörer och yrken inom redovisning och medicinsk analys.
Op-Ed
Publish date 1/14/2022
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…
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
The Evolution of Owner-Entrepreneurs’ Taxation: Five Tax Regimes over a 160-Year Period
The institutional literature suggests that long-term tax incentives are crucial for entrepreneurs, but studies on this topic are hampered by theoretical and empirical problems related to how to define…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/6/2022
IFN Researcher
Graduate Student
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
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IFN Researcher