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Economic Freedom and Antisemitism
We examine how variation in antisemitism across countries can be explained by economic freedom. We propose two mechanisms. First, the more economic freedom, the greater the scope of market activities.…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/4/2021
Are People Fussy About Who They Work With? An Experimental Test of Becker’s Coworker Discrimination Hypothesis
We used an experiment to investigate whether people’s decisions over employment opportunities are affected by the ethnicity and sex of their potential future coworkers. University students (N = 1,406)…
Journal Article
Publish date 12/22/2021
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
International Jurisdiction over Standard-Essential Patents
A sizeable literature analyzes the appropriate interpretation of FRAND commitments for standard-essential patents. With few exceptions, the literature disregards international dimensions, despite the…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/7/2020
Do Schools Discriminate against Children with Disabilities? A Field Experiment in Sweden
This article presents the results of a field experiment in which fictitious parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) sent inquiries…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/1/2021
Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts th…
Journal Article
Publish date 11/15/2021
Gender Quotas and Support for Women in Board Elections
We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees before and after the 2018 California gender quota. Pre-quota, new female nominees received greater support than new male nominees, consistent…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/24/2022
Patent Value Indicators and Technological Innovation
Patent value indicators are used to identify technological innovation. The probability of innovation correlates positively with patent renewal and patent family size, but only weakly with forward cita…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/31/2022
Ballooning Bureaucracy: Tracking the Growth of High-Skilled Administration within Swedish Higher Education
Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizatio…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/19/2021
Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World
There is scant systematic empirical evidence on what explains variation in academic freedom. Making use of a new indicator and panel data covering 64 countries 1960–2017, we investigate how de facto a…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/17/2022
Unconstrained Trade: The Impact of EU Cage Bans on Exports of Poultry-Keeping Equipment
This study evaluates the impact of conventional cage bans for laying hens in the EU on exports of poultry-keeping equipment. Using detailed data on international trade in poultry-keeping equipment com…
Working Paper
Publish date 12/13/2021
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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
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
Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation
We exploit exogenous variation arising from the historical rollout of the Swedish railroad network across municipalities to identify the impacts of improved transport infrastructure on innovative acti…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/9/2021
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
Political Failure: A Missing Piece in Innovation Policy Analysis
Within the field of innovation studies, researchers have identified systematic failures that hamper investment in R&D, innovation, and growth. Accordingly, researchers in this field often seek to…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/21/2022