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The brave new world of Swedish education
Magnus Henrekson's and Johan Wennström's book Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great Shool System – and How to Reverse the Trend, is reviewed in The Critic.
Media coverage
Publish date 4/18/2022
Returning to the Classical View of Knowledge: An Interview with Johan Wennström
Johan Wennström, IFN, is interviewed by The European Conservative on his and co-author Magnus Henrekson's book Dumbing Down.
Media coverage
Publish date 8/6/2022
Presentation of the SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Swedish productivity among the best in the world
At a seminar at SNS on January 18, Lars Persson (chair), Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, and Erik Prawitz presented the SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024. They are all researchers at or affili…
News
Publish date 1/19/2024
Policy Seminar: Is the Market Economy Culturally Harmful?
IFN arranged a policy seminar on March 7, 2024, entitled “Is the Market Economy Culturally Harmful?”. It featured the presentation of two studies from the research project “Cultures of Trust and Insti…
News
Publish date 3/8/2024
Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom
This project entails two interrelated core themes: Can institutions embodying economic freedom, contrary to the skepticism of some, contribute to fairness, trust, equality and responsibility; and can…
Research project
Digitalization and Productivity Development in Industries
This project is a research collaboration between Ericsson AB and IFN.
In recent years the mass adoption of digital services by industries has emerged as an important factor to spur economic developm…
Research project
IFN researcher receives Pearson Prize
Joacim Tåg, Associate Professor at IFN, received a prize for his article "What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?", written jointly with Professor Matti Keloharju and Professor Samuli Knüpfer (both…
News
Publish date 10/24/2022
Thomas Tangerås
Associate Professor, Program Director
thomas.tangeras@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
IFN Researchers receive funding from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse and Tore Browaldhs stiftelse
Björn Tyrefors has received funding of SEK 1,700,000 for the research project "The First Long-Term Causal Evaluation of Unconditional Cash Transfers to Poor Families." The project investigates the eff…
News
Publish date 5/8/2024
Income inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, writes about income inequality in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publish date 8/13/2021
Yves Zenou
Professor
yves.zenou@ifn.se
Affiliated Researcher
Olga Lark defended her doctoral dissertation Globalization, Gender Inequality, and Firm Innovation
On April 26, Olga Lark defended her doctoral dissertation Globalization, Gender Inequality, and Firm Innovation at the Lund University School of Economics and Management. Olga has been affiliated with…
News
Publish date 5/2/2024
Daniel Waldenström
Professor, Program Director
daniel.waldenstrom@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
IFN Researcher
Paula Roth
Ph.D.
paula.roth@ifn.se
Affiliated Researcher
Felicia Stokke (ex Doll)
Ph.D. student
felicia.stokke@ifn.se
Graduate Student
Kristina Karlsson
Ph.D. Student
kristina.karlsson@nek.uu.se
Graduate Student
6th Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics (NICE) Conference in Uppsala
On August 19–20, Uppsala University will arrange the 6th conference in the series Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics (NICE). One of the participants is Lars Persson, who also is one of the foun…
Event
Publish date 8/19/2024
"The Duncan Black Prize" goes to an affiliated researcher at IFN
Christian Bjørnskov, affiliated researcher at IFN, has been awarded "The Duncan Black Prize" for his article "Emergencyncies: on the misuse of government powers".
News
Publish date 3/17/2023
IFN Researcher