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Management Practices and the Quality of Primary Care
Using the World Management Survey method, the authors mapped and analysed management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On average, private sector providers were better managed than public provi…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/23/2021
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
IFN Researcher
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Guideline Adherence and Access to Expertise
We use population administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare the adherence of patients without personal access to medical expertise to the adher…
Working Paper
Publish date 12/13/2021
The Quality and Efficiency Between Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services
Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms reduces costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned am…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/28/2022
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
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
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IFN Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
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