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Lovisa Persson

Ph.D.

Lovisa Persson defended her thesis on the effects of politics and fiscal institutions on local public finances at Uppsala University in the autumn of 2015. At IFN she primarily works within the research program The Economics of the Service Sector, with special focus on public and private providers of publicly financed services.

Affiliated Researcher

Contact

Lovisa Persson

Kristianstad University

lovisa.persson@ifn.se

Research interests: Digitalization, Political economy, Privatization, Public economics, Publicly funded services

Some of the questions Lovisa Persson tries to answer in her research:

What are the effects of attending an independent upper secondary school compared with the municipal alternative?
What political and institutional factors explain local government economic and financial outcomes?
What are the conditions for (and effects of) implementing new welfare techonologies in Swedish eldery care?

Current writings

14 April 2023

Ekonomisk Debatt

Spridning av digital nattillsyn i hemtjänsten

Article in Swedish

by Lovisa Persson

28 October 2022

Ekonomisk Debatt

Forskning vid Walden

Popular Science

by Lovisa Persson

26 September 2022

SNS Analys 88

Resultat och betygsättning i gymnasiefriskolor

Report

by Karin Edmark, Lovisa Persson

Published at IFN

Journal Articles

07 September 2021 Edmark, Karin and Lovisa Persson (2021). “The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data”. Economics of Education Review 84, 102148. doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102148

10 June 2021 Jordahl, Henrik and Lovisa Persson (2021). “The End of a Trend? Retraction of Choice in Swedish Elderly Care”. Journal of Economic Policy Reform 24(2), 189–200. doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2020.1746660

01 December 2017 Elinder, Mikael and Lovisa Persson (2017). “House Price Responses to a National Property Tax Reform”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 144, 18–39. doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.09.017

01 April 2016 Persson, Lovisa (2016). “Government Consumption Smoothing in a Balanced Budget Regime”. International Tax and Public Finance 23(2), 289–315. doi.org/10.1007/s10797-015-9358-z

Books

01 January 2019 Mörk, Eva, Gissur Ó Erlingsson and Lovisa Persson (2019). Kommunernas framtid. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.

Working Papers

24 November 2020 Edmark, Karin and Lovisa Persson (2020). “The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data”. IFN Working Paper No. 1371. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

03 May 2018 Jordahl, Henrik and Lovisa Persson (2018). “Exploring Digital Time Measurement in the Public Sector: Labor Productivity and Service Quality in Home Care”. IFN Working Paper No. 1212. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

05 October 2017 Aggeborn, Linuz and Lovisa Persson (2017). “Public Finance and Right-Wing Populism”. IFN Working Paper No. 1182. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

19 June 2014 Elinder, Mikael and Lovisa Persson (2014). “Property Taxation, Bounded Rationality and House Prices”. IFN Working Paper No. 1029. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Articles in Swedish

14 April 2023 Persson, Lovisa (2023). “Spridning av digital nattillsyn i hemtjänsten”. Ekonomisk Debatt 51(3), 58–67.

01 January 2016 Elinder, Mikael and Lovisa Persson (2016). “Hur påverkade 2008 års fastighetsskattereform huspriserna?”. Ekonomisk Debatt 44(4), 47–56.

Op-Eds

16 January 2019 Mörk, Eva, Gissur Ó Erlingsson and Lovisa Persson (2019). “Kommunerna kommer inte att klara välfärden framöver”. Dagens Nyheter, January 16.

17 May 2018 Jordahl, Henrik and Lovisa Persson (2018). “Digital insyn i omsorgen ställer krav på ledarskapet”. Dagens Samhälle, May 17.

Popular Science

28 October 2022 Persson, Lovisa (2022). “Forskning vid Walden”. Ekonomisk Debatt 50(7), 3–5.

20 May 2022 Hultkrantz, Lars and Lovisa Persson (2022). “Brott och straff – vad fungerar?”. Ekonomisk Debatt 50(4), 3–4.

12 April 2022 Hultkrantz, Lars and Lovisa Persson (2022). “Fortsatt viktiga valfrågor”. Ekonomisk Debatt 50(3), 3–4.

13 October 2021 Persson, Lovisa (2021). “Dags att prioritera kvalitetssäkring av kommundata”. Ekonomisk Debatt 49(6), 3–4.

02 June 2021 Elinder, Mikael and Lovisa Persson (2021). “Ekonomisk Debatts digitala framtid”. Ekonomisk Debatt 49(4), 3–4.

03 May 2021 Elinder, Mikael and Lovisa Persson (2021). “Debatten om vårt framtida skattesystem”. Ekonomisk Debatt 49(3), 3–4.

Reports

26 September 2022 Edmark, Karin and Lovisa Persson (2022). “Resultat och betygsättning i gymnasiefriskolor”.