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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
National Transmission System Operators in an International Electricity Market
This paper develops a framework for analyzing the incentives of national transmission system operators (TSOs) to supply cross-border interconnection capacity in an international electricity market. Ou…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/21/2021
IFN Researcher
Fairness, Flexibility and the Far Right: Understanding the Relationship between Populism, Social Spending and Labor Markets
The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear an…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
IFN Researcher
IFN Researcher
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/17/2022
Coronapandemin, arbetsinkomsterna och välfärdssystemets skyddsgrad. Befolkningens inkomstutveckling under 2020
Coronapandemin har fått stora konsekvenser för samhället i stort och för enskilda personer och företag. Det är både ett resultat av smittspridningen i sig och av de åtgärder som vidtagits för att han[…
Report
Publish date 3/21/2022
A Non-Technical Introduction to Economic Aspects of International Investment Agreements
International investment agreements have become increasingly controversial. The agreements are alleged to be beset with a large number of deficiencies that harm host countries in particular. For inst…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/22/2018
Economics and Politics of International Investment Agreements
Close to 2 700 state-to-state investment agreements (IIAs) worldwide protect foreign direct investment (FDI) against host country policies. We analyze the design and implications of protection against…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/18/2016
Economics of International Investment Agreements
Nearly 2700 highly potent international investment agreements protect foreign investment against host country policies. This paper analyzes the design and implications of their contentious provisions…
Journal Article
Publish date 7/1/2021
Economic Aspects of International Investment Agreements
International investment agreements (“IIAs”) are State-to-State treaties that aim to promote investment, especially foreign direct investment (“FDI”), by protecting foreign investors against host-coun…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/1/2019
Modernisera Sveriges investeringsskyddsavtal
Sveriges investeringsskyddsavtal behöver moderniseras. Sverige har drygt 50 bilaterala avtal och Sverige ingår också i det sektorspecifika Energistadgefördraget. Avtalen skyddar investeringar mellan p…
Article in Swedish
Publish date 1/1/2020
International Investment Agreements – Efficient Means to Promote Swedish Growth?
This study discusses pros and cons of the Swedish international investment agreements from an economic perspective. It concludes that the older Swedish bilateral agreements should be revised to ensure…
Report
Publish date 4/29/2019
IFN Researcher
IFN Researcher