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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
IFN Researcher
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
En elmarknad med enhetliga priser för förbrukning
The Swedish electricity market was partitioned into four bidding zones in 2011. The purpose was to facilitate congestion management necessitated by transmission capacity constraints in the north-south…
Report
Publish date 12/13/2021
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
Electric Vehicles Rollout: Two Case Studies
We present and discuss evidence on electric-vehicle rollout in The Netherlands and Norway, two forerunners in this area. We demonstrate that the uptake of electric vehicles is essentially driven by fi…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
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
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
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
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
Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing inform…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/7/2021
Coronastrategin har varit bra för svensk ekonomi
Lars Persson, IFN och Fredrik Sjöholm, IFN, skriver på Dagens Nyheters debattsida om att den svenska coronastrategin har varit bra för ekonomin och att utökade restriktioner kräver nya stöd till föret…
Op-Ed
Publish date 3/9/2021
Vaccination – mer än bara egna hälsovinster
Kostnaden för samhället och för de personer som inte kunnat vaccinera sig kan vara betydande av att människor som har möjlighet att vaccinera sig avstår från att göra det, skriver Mats Hammarstedt.
Op-Ed
Publish date 9/30/2021
Hur har Covid-19-pandemin påverkat skatteintäkter och arbetsinkomster?
I denna rapport studeras Coronapandemins inverkan på den svenska ekonomin genom dess effekter på skatteinbetalningar från företag och individer samt på inkomsternas fördelning i den yrkesaktiva befolk…
Report
Publish date 7/2/2021
Improved Framework Conditions for a More Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Resilient EU
In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the European Union must regain lost ground and create more favorable conditions for inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The best way to achieve this goal is…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/25/2021
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
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