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On June 4, IFN arranged a seminar on the ESO report "Job Dynamics in Swedish industry 1990-2009" (Expert Group on Public Economics). Economists Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson, all IFN, presented the results of their study: What kinds of jobs have been lost or created? Do the employees have low or high education? How is the job dynamics between the service sector and manufacturing industry? Roland Bladh, European Commission's Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs attended the workshop and gave his views on the subject.

What if Sweden is like Iceland, warns researcher Andreas Bergh and refers to the report "Public benefit or personal gain? ESO report on corruption in Swedish." The report which has IFN researchers Andreas Bergh and Richard Öhrvall as co-authors was released on April 9. Corruption was basically unknown in regards to Iceland until the financial crisis exposed irregularities.

It is part of an IFN-researchers job to communicate their research beyond the research community. In terms of academic economists published in the largest Swedish morning paper Dagens Nyheter and its op-ed section (DN Debatt) between 2010 and 2012, IFN-researchers were in a leading position. 23 main opinion pieces had at least one IFN-researcher as co-author.

Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten), Professor Frank Wolak, electricity market researchers at Stanford University, will be visiting professor at IFN for six months in 2014. His stay in Sweden is made possible by the prestigious visiting professorship AES (the Swedish Energy Agency’s research program General Energy system studies).
 

Within the framework of cooperation between IFN and SNS a seminar was held on March 6. The question asked was "how to measure quality and outcomes of health care?". Elliott Fisher, leading expert in the American health care debate, together with Johan Calltorp, professor at the Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare, shared their perspectives.

In the photo: Elliots Fisher, left, and Johan Calltorp.

Professor Assar Lindbeck, IFN, is among Sweden's most important opinion makers. At number 71, he is the only scholar on this list. On the supplementary list of names that ended up "almost among the 100 most important" are two futher academics: Professor Lars Calmfors, Stockholm University and Professor Magnus Henrekson, IFN.

The anthology " Ett konkurrenskraftigt EU till rätt pris “ (A competitive EU at the right price) was presented at a seminar in Stockholm on February 6. Participation was among other Birgitta Olsson, Minister for EU-affairs, and Mikael Damberg (S). Panelists were IFN researchers Pär Holmberg and Thomas Tangerås, who also wrote a chapter in the book. So did Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne, both IFN. One of the editors, Lars Oxelheim, is affiliated to IFN.

The 2013 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research is awarded to Professor Maryann Feldman, Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina. Global Award is the leading international award in entrepreneurship research with a prize sum of EUR 100 000. Among other things Professor Feldman is awarded for her studies of entrepreneurial activity in the formation of regional industry clusters.

A Special Section on Entrepreneurship is included in the latest issue of the prestigious scientific journal Industrial and Corporate Change. This is a joint project of IFN and the Entreprenörskapsforum, lead by the CEOs Magnus Henrekson and Pontus Braunerhjelm, who have been guest editors heading a group of Swedish researchers, in detail studying the rules of entrepreneurship, innovation-based growth and entrepreneurship effects on the economy at large in Sweden and the US.

The online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute claims that "the Swedish political Right has increasingly managed to recapture the support of a large segment of the chattering classes. There may be lessons for the United States". One of the authors is Tino Sanandaji, research-fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

The Gunnar Myrdal Prize 2012 has been awarded Jonas Vlachos, who is affiliated researchers to IFN, for his article "Is profit and competition suitable for schools?". The article was published in the National Economic Association's journal Ekonomisk Debatt No. 4, 2012.
 

IFN contributes with high-quality analyses and policy recommendations to the public debate. This might be done as an article in a daily paper or researchers taking part in a public debate. On January 23, Magnus Henrekson, Director IFN, and Lars Persson, Deputy Director of the Institute, both take part in two such debates.

Alexander Ljungqvist is new affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
He is the Ira Rennert Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at New York University Stern School of Business.

IFN-researcher Martin Olsson has been awarded a Wallander stipend. A total of four researchers in Economics were in 2012 granted full three-year research funding (approximately SEK 1.5 million).

On december 4, Scientists Mikael Lindahl and Anders Böhlmark, both affiliated to IFAU, presented a report in which they have found positive effects of the Swedish reform that in 1992 opened up for privately managed schools. IFN-researcher Jonas Vlachos was invited to comment on the report.

In eight articles—to be published in 2013 in a theme issue of Industrial and Corporate Change —Magnus Henrekson, IFN, and Pontus Braunerhjelm, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, have assessed entrepreneurial activities in Sweden and the US.

Lars Persson, Associate professor and Deputy Director at IFN, who recently was appointed Fellow of CESifo (Center for Economic Studies at the University) in Munich, has been appointed Adjoint professor at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University.

As part of its research program Service sector economy, IFN has teamed up with SNS, Studieförbundet Näringsliv och Samhälle (Centre for Business and Policy Studies). Within the framework of this cooperation on November 15, SNS organized a seminar, asking the question "What does customer satisfaction tell us about the quality of welfare services?"

As part of IFN's research program the Service sector economy IFN has teamed up with SNS, Studieförbundet Näringsliv och Samhälle. Within the framework of this cooperation on November 8, SNS organized a seminar on public procurement. A report was presented: "Public procurement from the research horizon."

Tuesday October 9, IFN, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, arranged a seminar on the book Blir vi sjuka av inkomstskillnader? (Is income inequality making us ill?). Three IFN researchers are the authors of this research- and study guide on the subject: Andreas Bergh, Therese Nilsson and Daniel Waldenström.