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Facts and Myths in the Popular Debate about Inequality in Sweden
This paper presents a critical assessment of the public debate on income and wealth inequality in Sweden. We scrutinize ten often-heard claims in the debate by contrasting them against facts in availa…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/7/2021
The Mystery of Inequality: Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. The papers are primarily empirical, and use a wide variety of data sources ranging from global survey data to administrative records.
Essay I (with…
Dissertation
Publish date 6/4/2021
Kapitalismen verklig välgörare i Karl-Bertil Jonssons julsaga
Nidbilden av den kapitalistiske pappan i den tecknade julsagan är orättvis. När Karl-Bertil Jonsson konfiskerar rikas julklappar brister han i respekt för äganderätten som utgör grund för den liberala…
Op-Ed
Publish date 12/24/2021
Slutreplik: Våra kritiker vänder upp och ner på viktiga samband
Nationalekonomerna Lars Jonung och Daniel Waldenström: Marknadsekonomin har skapat förutsättningar för välfärdsstaten.
Op-Ed
Publish date 1/4/2022
Riksbankens storköp kan öka ojämlikheten
Ekonomiska krisåtgärder syftar ofta till att hjälpa de värst drabbade. Men centralbankernas storskaliga köp av tillgångar medför risk för motsatt effekt: ökad förmögenhetsojämlikhet.
Op-Ed
Publish date 1/8/2022
Nonparametric Analysis of the Mixed-Demand Model
The mixed-demand model allows for very flexible specification of what should be considered endogenous and exogenous in demand system estimation. This paper introduces a revealed preference framework t…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/11/2022
Late Colonial Antecedents of Modern Democracy
Some of the most contested questions in political science and political economy revolve around the conditions under which democratization is likely to happen and when democracy becomes a stable instit…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/24/2021
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
Affiliated Researcher
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
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…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/19/2021
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
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
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
Politisk kartellbildning som förklaring till Sverigedemokraternas framgång
Sverigedemokraterna har, i likhet med andra populistiska partier i Europa, vuxit kraftigt i de senaste valen. En trolig förklaring till denna uppgång kan finnas i att Sverigedemokraterna har erbjudit…
Book Chapter
Publish date 1/31/2022
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
Formal institutions, e.g., regulations, are considered crucial determinants of entrepreneurship, but what enables regulatory change when there is a regulatory void, meaning entrepreneurship clashes wi…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/24/2022
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