IFN in the Press

The case against membership of the single currency looks much less clear-cut than it did in the 1990s, writes Lars Calmfors in Financial Times.

Sweden chose to stay outside the monetary union in 1999 and rejected the euro in a 2003 referendum. This column summarises a recent report which reassesses the pros and cons of Swedish euro membership, writes Lars Calmfors in VoxEU.

Lars Calmfors, IFN, writes a kolumn in VoxEU on the Nordic model of wage coordination at a crossroads.

The US and its allies risk paying a higher longer-term price if they fail to repel Russian aggression.

Elon Musk is at war with a group of Swedish workers. The billionaire's EV company, Tesla, faces a wave of strikes across the nation. Business Insider interviewed Lars Calmfors, researcher at IFN, concerning the situation. 

Swedish krona or Euro? Lars Calmfors, researcher at IFN, who investigated whether Sweden should join the single European currency on behalf of the government in the 1990s, in interviewed in Sveriges Radio, and says that he is in favour for economic reasons. 

Negotiations on a new wage agreement between Swedish trade unions and employers within the  industry department are in full swing. The agreed wage increases will set the level for the rest of the labor market in Sweden. Lars Calmfors, researcher at IFN, told SVT that wage increases probably will be far from inflation.

Lars Calmfors, IFN and Stockholm University, is interviewed by Ouest France on Sweden's decision to not join the European Monetary Union: