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Fredrik Sjöholm new board member of EIJS
Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, has been elected to be a member of the board of the European Institute of Japanese Studies.
News
Publish date 11/15/2021
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
Graduate Student
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
Industrial Policy and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can benefit host countries by facilitating access to sophisticated technologies, good management and global value chains. However, multinational firms have many alterna…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
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
JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality
Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/1/2022
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
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
Affiliated Researcher
Kill Your Darlings? Do New Aid Flows Help Achieve a Poverty Minimizing Allocation of Aid?
In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors a…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/11/2021
Investor-State vs. State-State Dispute Settlement
International investment agreements typically permit foreign investors to litigate against host countries (Investor-State Dispute Settlement, ISDS). Yet, common criticism holds that host countries wou…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/14/2018
Exchange Rate Sensitivity and the Net Foreign Asset Composition
Many currencies, especially from countries with negative net foreign assets, depreciate during financial turbulence. Using a panel of 26 currencies for the period April 2002 to December 2019, I show t…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/4/2022
Press Freedom, Market Information, and International Trade
Does quality information affect international trade? We show theoretically how firms, in the absence of trustworthy information, may restrict their export activity. Exploring bilateral export flows ac…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/5/2022