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The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its Relationship to Capitalism
For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement o…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/25/2021
The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its Relationship to Capitalism
For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement o…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/8/2021
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
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Did the COVID-19 Outbreak Affect High School Program Choices in Sweden?
We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/29/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/15/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/4/2022
Coronapandemin, arbetsinkomsterna och välfärdssystemets skyddsgrad. Befolkningens inkomstutveckling under 2020
Coronapandemin har fått stora konsekvenser för samhället i stort och för enskilda personer och företag. Det är både ett resultat av smittspridningen i sig och av de åtgärder som vidtagits för att han[…
Report
Publish date 3/21/2022
Bitcoin: Unlicensed Gambling
Promoters claim that bitcoin is a new type of money, reduces transactions costs by abandoning intermediaries and will become a safe asset that they call “digital gold”. In this book, we dissect these…
Book
Publish date 7/4/2021
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 a District Mandate Matter for the Behavior of Politicians? An Analysis of Roll-Call Votes and Parliamentary Speeches
In most democracies, members of parliament (MPs) are elected either through a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German electoral system to investigate the causal effect of a d…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/10/2022
Ecosystem Services for Compensation of Artificial Turf Systems
Constructing football fields in Sweden with artificial turf has grown in popularity in recent years. Although the increase in playing time per year is a significant benefit of using artificial turf, t…
Report
Publish date 12/14/2021
Bitcoin lacks a solid foundation as an international currency
For millennia, money has acted as a store of value as reducing transaction costs – crypto does neither
Op-Ed
Publish date 6/7/2021
Income inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, writes about income inequality in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publiceringsdatum 8/13/2021
Markups as a Hedge for Input Price Uncertainty: Evidence from Sweden
In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms’ price-setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/16/2021