Journal of Financial Economics
Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju och Samuli Knüpfer
Är vd för ett storföretag något man föds till? Vi kombinerar mönstringsdata innehållande kognitiv och icke-kognitiv förmåga samt kroppslängd för drygt en miljon svenska män med data om deras lön,…
Prosperity through Trade and Structural Reform – Festschrift in Honour of Per Magnus Wijkman
Magnus Henrekson
The European Union suffers from an innovation deficit, which must be remedied if the EU is to improve the quality of life of its citizens and remain competitive in the global marketplace. In order to do so, more productive entrepreneurship is required. This article…
European Journal of Political Economy
Christian Bjørnskov och Stefan Voigt
States of emergency do not only imply a significant change in the balance of powers between the three branches of government, they are also very frequently declared: between 1985 and 2014, at least 137 countries were subject to at least one such event. This…
Journal of Political Economy
Assar Lindbeck och Mats Persson
We analyze how insurance arrangements, labor supply, moral hazard, and outright cheating are affected by social norms. One question is under what conditions norms may improve social welfare. Another is under what conditions people should be allowed to opt out of…
International Journal of Constitutional Law
Christian Bjørnskov och Stefan Voigt
Nine of ten countries currently have emergency provisions written into their constitutions, here simply referred to as emergency constitutions. The nature of these provisions remains poorly understood. We therefore aim at providing answers to two questions: (i) how…
Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health
Martin Ljunge
Review of Income and Wealth
Jacob Lundberg och Daniel Waldenström
Med taxeringsstatistik beräknas den svenska förmögenhetsfördelningen efter 2007, när förmögenhetsskatten avskaffades. Samtidigt testas beräkningsmetodernas tillförlitlighet. Forskarna finner att ojämlikheten…
International Journal of Management Reviews
Simon Okwir, Sai Nudurupati , Matías Ginieis och Jannis Angelis
Komplexitet i mät- och styrprocesser anses ofta orsakad av miljön snarare än av aktörers agerande. En metaanalys av 58 tidigare studier visar hur teknisk och social kontroll påverkar processerna i olika grad. Resultatet visar att en…
Journal of Economic History
Erik Bengtsson och Daniel Waldenström
Vi studerar det långsiktiga sambandet mellan vinstandelen i ekonomin och inkomstfördelningen i ett antal västländer och finner att korrelationen är både positiv och stabil över tid. Starkast är sambandet i anglosaxiska…
Papers in Regional Science
Özge Öner
I denna studie visar forskaren att den lokala marknadens storlek är viktig för produktiviteten för fristående butiker belägna i centrum, medan den [större] regionala marknaden verkar ha en lika stor inverkan på butiker…
Energy Economics
Mario Blázquez de Paz
Denna uppsats analyserar hur den teoretiska jämvikten på integrerade elmarknader påverkas av olika typer av överföringskostnader. Resultaten visar att s.k. överföringstaxor, kopplade till mängden elektricitet som säljs…
Journal of Public Economics
Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson och Daniel Waldenström
Vi undersöker hur ärvt kapital påverkar förmögenhetsfördelningen. Vi finner att arv minskar relativ ojämlikhet men ökar gapet mellan topp och botten. Förklaringen är att rika arvingar ärver mer medan arven…
Journal of Institutional Economics
Christian Bjørnskov
The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis states that economic freedom is causally associated with stable democracy. I test a particular element of the hypothesis focusing on press freedom, which is arguably a necessary component of any democratic polity. Combining the…
Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking
Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson och Daniel Waldenström
Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the…
Trust in the EU at Challenging Times: Interdisciplinary European Studies
Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Niklas Bremberg, Anna Michalski och Lars Oxelheim
Bakardijeva Engelbrekt, Bremberg, Michalski, and Oxelheim introduce the concept of trust in the European Union by pointing out its elusive character comprising both interpersonal relations and attitudes towards organizations and broad-based institutions in society.…
Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services: Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, Volume 7
Gissur Ó. Erlingsson, Anna Thomasson och Richard Öhrvall
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Ying-Ju Chen, Yves Zenou och Junjie Zhou
Vi introducerar en nätverksmodell där individer deltar i två olika aktiviteter som är beroende av varandra. T.ex. kan en person begå brott och studera, men ju fler brott hon begår, desto mindre studerar hon. För att minska…
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Mathias Ekström
Genom att studera en unik doneringssituation visar jag att människor blir mer altruistiska i december. Vidare finner jag att denna ökning i altruism motsvarar effekten av en 30 procentig rabatt på givande, samt att hälften av ökningen i…
Small Business Economics
Magnus Henrekson och Tino Sanandaji
Europa släpar efter både USA och Kina vad gäller tillgången till venture capital och framväxten av framgångsrika entreprenörsföretag. En reformerad personaloptionsbeskattning i Europa vore ett både effektivt och…
Small Business Economics
Selin Dilli, Niklas Elert och Andrea M. Herrmann
I uppsatsen undersöker vi hur samspelet mellan nationella institutioner påverkar entreprenörskap. I en analys av 21 utvecklade länder finner vi fyra tydliga landkluster, vart och ett med ett distinkt knippe av samverkande institutioner, som kan…
Small Business Economics
Claire Economidou, Luca Grilli, Magnus Henrekson och Mark Sanders
Vad krävs för att Europa ska bli mer innovativt och entreprenöriellt? Bidragen i detta specialnummer av Small Business Economics visar att det förutsätter ett systemperspektiv och institutionella reformer som täcker ett fält.
Economic Journal
Adrian Adermon, Mikael Lindahl och Daniel Waldenström
This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be explained by inheritances. Using a Swedish data set with newly hand‐collected data on…
International Review of Entrepreneurship
Magnus Henrekson och Tino Sanandaji
Europa lider av ett underskott på entreprenörskap jämfört med Nordamerika. När Europas höga inkomstnivå och stora satsningar på FoU beaktas framkommer ett underskott på entreprenörskap även vid en…
Games and Economic Behavior
Philip Ushchev och Yves Zenou
We develop a product-differentiated model where the product space is a network defined as a set of varieties (nodes) linked by their degrees of substitutability (edges). We also locate consumers into this network, so that the location of each consumer (node)…
Trust in the EU at Challenging Times: Interdisciplinary European Studies
Andreas Bergh
Bergh considers the relationship between migration and interpersonal trust in the European Union. Interpersonal trust, Bergh avers, is an important foundation for a well-functioning society. The question is how interpersonal trust is affected by increased migration…
Energy Journal
Fridrik M. Baldursson, Ewa Lazarczyk, Marten Ovaere och Stef Proost
Efter samarbete på terminsmarknaden, dagen före-marknaden och intradagsmarknaden har vissa stamnätsoperatörer i Europa och USA nyligen även börjat samarbeta med upphandling av reservkraft. I denna uppsats jämför vi tre grader…
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
Johan Klaesson, Esteban Ochoa Lopez och Özge Öner
Vi undersöker varför människor är yrkesverksamma längre. Vi finner att kön, utbildning och yrke påverkar den verkliga pensionsåldern. Den största skillnaden i pensionsålder finner vi mellan anställda och…
Labour Economics
Olof Åslund, Hans Grönqvist, Caroline Hall och Jonas Vlachos
We study the impact on long and short run criminal behavior from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs and adding more general theoretical content. The reform directly concerns age groups where criminal activity is…
Journal of Regional Science
Lina Ahlin, Martin Andersson och Per Thulin
Sorteringen av hög- och lågutbildad arbetskraft är en viktig förklaring till ekonomiska skillnader mellan storstäder och landsbygd. Sannolikheten att flytta till en storstad ökar med gymnasiebetyg och föräldrars utbildning.…
AEA Papers and Proceedings
Emanuele Colonnelli, Joacim Tåg, Michael Webb och Stefanie Wolter
Denna studie dokumenterar samband mellan företagets storlek och lön i Sverige, Brasilien, Storbritannien och Tyskland samt hur dessa samband har utvecklats över tid. Vi finner ett positivt samband mellan lön och företagsstorlek i alla dessa…
Journal of Happiness Studies
Niclas Berggren, Christian Bjørnskov och Therese Nilsson
Vi finner att när lagstiftningen blir mer jämlik för en minoritet påverkas den stora allmänheten antingen inte alls i sin tillfredsställelse med livet eller i positiv riktning (när samkönade par får gifta sig).…
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Sierdjan Koster och Martin Andersson
The literature on employee spinoffs has, for a long time, stressed the importance of industry-specific skills and experiences in explaining the success of new firms. We argue that employees also develop skills that are associated with their occupation within an…
Journal of Economic Theory
Thierry Verdier och Yves Zenou
This paper studies the population dynamics of cultural traits in a model of intergenerational cultural transmission with a perfectly-forward looking cultural leader. We show that there exists a threshold size in terms of population above which the cultural leader…
Journal of Urban Economics
Pierre M. Picard och Yves Zenou
Consider a model where workers from the majority and the minority group choose both their residential location (geographical space) and the intensity of their social interactions (social space). We demonstrate under which condition one group resides close to the job…
International Economic Review
Florin Maican och Matilda Orth
Welfare effects of entry regulations are theoretically ambiguous in differentiated product markets. We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store‐type differentiation and static price setting to evaluate how entry regulations affect long‐run…
Energy Economics
Thomas Tangerås
Att upphandla produktionsreserver och bygga ut elnätet är de vanligaste sätten att skydda konsumenterna mot avbrott och höga priser, men ger färre incitament att sänka förbrukningen och investera i ny produktion. Denna uppsats…
The European Union: Facing the Challenge of Multiple Security Threats
Roger Svensson
The European Union: Facing the Challenge of Multiple Security Threats
Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Anna Michalski, Niklas Nilsson och Lars Oxelheim
Economics Letters
Keith Ruddell, Anthony Downward och Andy Philpott
Our model of strategic behavior in sequential markets exhibits a persistent forward price premium. This premium is not susceptible to arbitrage by speculators on the forward market, since purchasers prefer forward contracts backed by producers with market…
American Economic Review
Petra Persson och Maya Rossin-Slater
Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) find that prenatal exposure to family ruptures affects childhood and adult mental health, as well as infant physical health. We compare children whose relatives die within 280 days post-conception to children whose relatives die in…
Behavioural Public Policy
Petra Persson
Limits on consumer attention give firms incentives to manipulate prospective buyers’ allocation of attention. This paper models such attention manipulation and shows that it limits the ability of disclosure regulation to improve consumer welfare. Competitive…
American Economic Review
Petra Persson och Maya Rossin-Slater
This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find that prenatal exposure to the death of a maternal relative increases take-up of ADHD medications during childhood and anti-anxiety and depression…
Journal of Economic Theory
Edward Anderson och Pär Holmberg
We consider a uniform-price procurement auction with indivisible units and private independent costs. We find an explicit solution for a Bayesian Nash equilibrium, which is unique if demand shocks are sufficiently evenly distributed. The equilibrium has a price…
Journal of Rural Studies
Martin Andersson, Niclas Lavesson och Thomas Niedomysl
The rise of ICT and the shift toward jobs with more flexibility in working hours and places of work sparked popular debates about potential for a ‘rural renaissance’. A key argument was that there are increasing possibilities to live in the countryside…
Labour Economics
Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger och Roope Uusitalo
We construct multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of last-in, first-out rules. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between different units of the same firms operating in Sweden and Finland, two countries that have…
Bridging the Prosperity Gap in the EU: The Social Challenge Ahead
Ulf Bernitz, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim och Thomas Persson
In this chapter we describe the EUs social dimension and its development aimed at an understanding of the prosperity gap in the EU. We identify the new social challenges the Union faces in the wake of the three ongoing intertwined developments: the financial and…
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Ethan Cohen-Cole, Xiaodong Liu och Yves Zenou
This paper considers the identification of social interaction effects in the context of multivariate choices. First, we generalize the theoretical social interaction model to allow individuals to make interdependent choices in different activities. Based on the…
Bridging the Prosperity Gap in the EU: The Social Challenge Ahead
Martin Ljunge
In this chapter I highlight how new research can provide answers to how gaps in health and wealth can be reduced. The focus is on an approach that can identify the causal direction of the connections between trust, health, and prosperity. I find clear evidence that…
Economica
Julia Tanndal och Daniel Waldenström
We estimate the impact of financial market deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel synthetic control method to investigate the two ‘Big Bangs’ of financial deregulation, the UK in 1986 and Japan in 1997–9, we find that pre-tax top income…
Antitrust Chronicle
Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson och Joacim Tåg
Private equity firms (“PE firms”) have become common as owners of established firms in concentrated markets. We discuss the antitrust implications of an active PE market and whether there are any special characteristics of PE ownership that are important…
Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy
Anna Grigoryeva, Mohammad R. Hesamzadeh och Thomas Tangerås
The energy system in the Nordic countries faces changes driven by increasing integration with the rest of Europe and changes to the generation mix. These developments pose challenges with respect to future network development and operation. We focus on three major…
Economics Letters
Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck och Lars Persson
We propose a new method to analyze employment and productivity dynamics in a consistent way. Using Swedish data we find that net jobs were mainly created in young, small firms and productivity gains were mainly created in large old firms.
Economics Letters
Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson och Joacim Tåg
Private equity firms (PE firms) have become common owners of established firms in concentrated markets. We show that the threat of a PE acquisition can trigger incumbent mergers in an otherwise merger-stable industry. This can help antitrust authorities maximize…
International Review of Economics & Finance
Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson och Joacim Tåg
The tax laws of most developed countries are debt biased since firms can deduct interest on debt but not on equity. This bias is known to distort investment decisions. However, less is known about how the debt tax shield affects the ownership of assets when bidders…
World Economy
Åsa Hansson, Karin Olofsdotter och Susanna Thede
In recent years, there has been growing concern that multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage in strategic tax planning in order to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions. This common perception is generally confirmed by empirical evidence, which is foremost provided…
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Andreas Bergh och Philipp C. Wichardt
This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a way that explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects and allows for uncertainty also about the latter. Moreover, it allows non-economic cost associated with the…
Journal of World Business
Bruce Hearn, Lars Oxelheim och Trond Randøy
This study examines the governance attributes of post-IPO (initial public offering) retained ownership of private equity in business group constituent firms in contrast to their unaffiliated counterparts, in 202 newly listed firms in 22 emerging African economies. We…
Economics & Human Biology
Joan Costa Font och Martin Ljunge
The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of occupational health inequalities. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in climbing the occupational ladder. This paper documents evidence of…
Journal of Public Economics
Carl Magnus Bjuggren
Current theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper, I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using Swedish register data. A reform of employment protection rules in 2001…
Economics of Education Review
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren
We study whether independent-school competition involves a trade-off between pupil wellbeing and academic performance. To test this hypothesis, we analyse data covering pupils across the OECD, exploiting historical Catholic opposition to state schooling for exogenous…
Industrial and Corporate Change
Jing Xiao, Ron Boschma och Martin Andersson
This article adopts an evolutionary framework to the study of industrial resilience. We present a study on European regions and assess the extent to which the capacity of their economies to develop new industrial specializations is affected by the global economic…
Primary Health Care Research & Development
Anna Häger Glenngård och Anders Anell
To study (a) the covariation between patient reported experience measures (PREMs) and registered process measures of access and continuity when ranking providers in a primary care setting, and (b) whether registered process measures or PREMs provided more or less…
Mathematical Social Sciences
Ola Andersson, Cédric Argenton och Jörgen W. Weibull
This paper studies the role of strategic uncertainty in the Nash demand game. A player’s uncertainty about another player’s strategy is modeled as an atomless probability distribution over that player’s strategy set. A strategy profile is robust to…
Venture Capital
Magnus Henrekson och Tino Sanandaji
The VC sector is interesting both in its own right and as a proxy for entrepreneurial finance more broadly. We highlight the tax treatment of stock options as an important factor for variations in the size of the VC sector. VC often relies on option-based contracts…