Research faculty

Henrik Jordahl

Professor, Program Director

Among the questions that Henrik Jordahl tries to answer with his research:

Why are publicly funded services sometimes contracted out to private providers and sometimes produced in-house by public sector employees?
How does the choice between public and private production influence costs and quality of publicly funded services?
How can we reform laws, rules and practices to improve the production of publicly funded services?

New research

Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality Fredrik Andersson, Henrik Jordahl and Jens Josephson

Selected papers

The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it. Journal of Public Economics, 146 (February), 79-86, 2017 (with Niclas Berggren and Panu Poutvaara). Link

Promises, policies and pocketbook Voting. European Economic Review, 75 (April), 177-194, 2015 (with Mikael Elinder and Panu Poutvaara), Link

Political preferences and public sector outsourcing. European Journal of Political Economy 30, 43-57, 2013 (with Mikael Elinder). Link

Henrik Jordahl's research papers are also available at Google Scholar, IDEAS and SSRN.

IFN Newsletter

Promise voters to pad their wallets, and they will listen. IFN Newsletter 2-2015. Link

Henrik Jordahl

Contact

Ph : +46 8 665 4533
Mob : +46 70 938 3858
henrik.jordahl@ifn.se

Introduction

Henrik Jordahl is Professor of Economics at Örebro University. At IFN he is the Director of the research program The Economics of the Service Sector. Henrik Jordahl is affiliated with UCFS at Uppsala University and with the international research networks CESifo and IZA.

Subject areas

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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.