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Does Firm Exit Increase Prices?
This paper examines how changes in product market concentration, specifically firm exit, affect prices. I develop a model where firms have variable markups to show that the remaining firms increase th…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/8/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/15/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/4/2022
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Does a District Mandate Matter for the Behavior of Politicians? An Analysis of Roll-Call Votes and Parliamentary Speeches
In most democracies, members of parliament (MPs) are elected either through a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German electoral system to investigate the causal effect of a d…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/10/2022
Gender and Climate Action
It is well-known that men and women differ in their views regarding the severity of climate change, but do they also differ in their support for climate policy and in undertaking climate action in the…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/21/2020
Gender and Climate Action
It is well-known that men and women differ in their views regarding the severity of climate change, but do they also differ in their support for climate policy and in undertaking climate action in the…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/27/2022
Attityder och beteenden under covid-19-pandemin
Sverige valde en annan väg under pandemin. Men vad tyckte egentligen svenskarna om strategin och hur utvecklades synen på strategin över tiden? Vad kännetecknar de som fann de svenska åtgärderna tillr…
Article in Swedish
Publish date 9/22/2021
The End of a Trend? Retraction of Choice in Swedish Elderly Care
In 2009, Sweden launched a freedom-of-choice reform that gave municipalities the option to introduce standardized quasi-markets in social services. The reform was initially popular to adopt in home ca…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/10/2021
The matching between workers and jobs explains productivity differentials across firms
Joacim Tåg, IFN, and Luca Coraggio, University of Naples Federico II, Marco Pagano, University of Naples Federico II, CEPR, and affiliated with IFN, and Annalisa Scognamiglio, University of Naples Fed…
Media coverage
Publiceringsdatum 5/9/2022
Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing inform…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/7/2021
Coronastrategin har varit bra för svensk ekonomi
Lars Persson, IFN och Fredrik Sjöholm, IFN, skriver på Dagens Nyheters debattsida om att den svenska coronastrategin har varit bra för ekonomin och att utökade restriktioner kräver nya stöd till föret…
Op-Ed
Publish date 3/9/2021
Vaccination – mer än bara egna hälsovinster
Kostnaden för samhället och för de personer som inte kunnat vaccinera sig kan vara betydande av att människor som har möjlighet att vaccinera sig avstår från att göra det, skriver Mats Hammarstedt.
Op-Ed
Publish date 9/30/2021
Hur har Covid-19-pandemin påverkat skatteintäkter och arbetsinkomster?
I denna rapport studeras Coronapandemins inverkan på den svenska ekonomin genom dess effekter på skatteinbetalningar från företag och individer samt på inkomsternas fördelning i den yrkesaktiva befolk…
Report
Publish date 7/2/2021
Improved Framework Conditions for a More Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Resilient EU
In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the European Union must regain lost ground and create more favorable conditions for inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The best way to achieve this goal is…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/25/2021
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Did the COVID-19 Outbreak Affect High School Program Choices in Sweden?
We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/29/2021