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IFN Researcher
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
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
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 7/9/2022
Sweden's Energy Investment Challenge
Sweden faces a major challenge in the next decades because of a projected increase in electricity demand, aging supply infrastructure and the transition to an energy system with a substantial share of…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/24/2021
Strategic Reserves versus Market-Wide Capacity Mechanisms
Many electricity markets use capacity mechanisms to support generation owners. Capacity payments can mitigate imperfections associated with “missing money” in the spot market and solve transitory capa…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/6/2021
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
Civic Honesty and Cultures of Trust
Recent work in Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty and cooperative behaviour captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. Similarly, beliefs about social trust…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/9/2021
IFN Researcher
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
Decomposition of Air Pollution Emissions from Swedish Manufacturing
Starting from the '90s, Swedish manufacturing output has been constantly growing, while emissions of some major air pollutants have been declining. This paper decomposes manufacturing pollution emissi…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/22/2022
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
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
Niclas Berggren will be presenting the study "Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism", authored with Alva Johansson and Therese Nilsson, at the University of Groningen.
Event
Publish date 11/4/2021
Graduate Student
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