Research faculty

Erik Prawitz

Ph.D.

Some questions that Erik Prawitz tries to answer in his research:

How does emigration affect economic and political development in sending regions?
To what extent can new technologies, such as railroads and electricity, affect regional economic development?
What are the determinants of innovative activity?

New research

Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States Mounir Karadja and Erik Prawitz

Publications:

"Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States" (with Mounir Karadja), Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)

extra: Online Appendix

Working Papers:

"Mass Migration, Cheap Labor, and Innovation" (with David Andersson & Mounir Karadja)

Work in Progress:

On the Right Track: Railroads and Innovation During Two Centuries (w. David Andersson & Thor Berger)
The Long-Run Patterns of Swedish Return Migration from America (w. Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, & Björn Eriksson)
The Historical Impact of Electric Lights on Swedish Productivity (w. Thor Berger & Nancy Qian)
Wealth and Homeownership (w. Mounir Karadja)
Innovation, Inventors, and the Impoverished Sophisticate (w. David Andersson & Thor Berger)

Erik Prawitz

Contact

Ph : +46 8 665 4535
Mob : +46 70 430 3258
erik.prawitz@ifn.se

Introduction

Erik Prawitz has a Ph.D. from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. The title of his thesis was On the Move: Essays on the Economic and Political Development of Sweden, for which he received the Alexander Gerschenkron prize.

Subject areas

Leading Research Environment

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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, is a private and independent foundation devoted to pursuing highly relevant research for trade and industry.

The researchers at IFN are united in their belief that economic methods offer a powerful tool for understanding society.

The main research programs are:

economics of entrepreneurship
globalization and corporate restructuring
economics of the service sector
economics of the electricity markets
economics of institutions and culture.

Global Award

Research on entrepreneurship

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research is the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship.This Prize is awarded annually with a prize sum of EUR 100,000.

IFN in cooperation with Entreprenörskapsforum and Vinnova are the principals of the award, in cooperation with the donor, Lars Backsell.

Professor Boyan Jovanovic, New York University, is the winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2019.

Erik Prawitz

Ph.D.

New research

Publications:

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Erik Prawitz

Contact

Introduction

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Research on entrepreneurship

Work in Progress: