Completed Projects
A study of the effects of employment protection – in Sweden and in other countries. From 2022 is this project connected to the program Institutions, Markets and Enterprise.
The purpose of the project was to study the effects of subsidized childcare on long run labor supply and access to human capital.
Child care costs and accessibility can impact long run labor supply b…
The purpose of this project was to examine the effects of payroll taxes on employment in the service sector. According to economic theory, the effects on employment are ambiguous. On the one hand, pay…
This study concerned the location of the hospitality sector in Sweden.
The project mapped the hospitality industry and several attributes of it, to illustrate the locations of the industry across Swe…
The research projects aimed at studying behavioral aspects of institutional design, with the starting premise that an institution is a formal centralized structure. There are numerous examples of such…
The project was aimed at understanding the contributions of intangible investments to innovation, competitiveness, growth and productivity in Europe. Intangible investments are, with a few exceptions,…
The central role of human capital for productivity is widely acknowledged in the economic sciences. This project studied the distribution of human capital across firms over time. The last decades have…
In this project, we test how the option to choose between different schools has affected students’ results. Do school choice and competition between schools lead to better results for all through bett…
We investigate the relationship between file sharing and music and movie sales by evaluating the effects of the Swedish implementation of the IPRED law in 2009.
During the last decade global music sa…
In recent years, public services have grown in importance on the political agenda. The proposal to introduce a general cap on profits in the tax-financed service sector has been particularly controver…
The project studied the determinants of the location choices of the Swedish independent schools. In particular, factors such as resource allocation and attitudes to school choice at the municipality l…
This project was jointly undertaken by IFN and SNS - Centre for Business and Policy Studies. The program contained research conducted at IFN and by external researchers, as well as popular science and…
This project aimed at calculating value-added scores to measure the quality of schools, thereby enabling comparisons with other quality measures and student outcomes after graduation.
In November 2006, IFN hosted a conference on the globalization of service production and its impact on small open economies such as Sweden. Participants included Sten Tolgfors, Minister for Trade, and…
This project aims at deepening the study of the intersection between markets and hierarchy/bureaucracy.
This project is partly motivated by a number of questions related to the organization of the pu…
This project studied the importance of producer services for the manufacturing and the service sector, as well as for the entire Swedish economy. The focus was mainly on the outsourcing of producer se…
This study focused on the types, implementation and location of innovation in the hospitality sector.
In this project, we first worked on the identification of innovation in hospitality sector, compa…
The purpose of this research project is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of interconnection charges in electronic communications and the effect of competition and regulatory poli…
The aim of this project was to examine the effects of minimum wages on employment and other outcomes. A study of the effects of employment protection – in Sweden and in other countries. From 2022 is t…
There is a trend moving towards private production of publicly financed services. This project studies the economic consequences of the choice between public and private production in terms of cost an…
Service contracting makes up a significant and increasing share of public expenditure in Swedish municipalities. Previous research has compared the cost and quality of publicly financed services that…
We study the interaction of voters and politicans regarding public services. How do voters react to changes in prices and supply of public services?
Public consumption makes up 51 percent of public e…
The researchers in this project used data from the Swedish military enlistment to study the importance of personality traits for wages, income and employment.
In two-sided markets, platforms connect and facilitate transactions between separate groups of agents that value each other’s presence. Platforms are common in the telecommunications and high-technolo…
This project measured productivity in retailing and analyzed the effects of the entry of ”big box” stores on local markets.
The project aimed at investigating the importance of the retail sector for urban and economic development in Sweden.
Using extensive geo-coded microdata over time the researchers applied spatial ana…
Many significant Swedish school reforms in the last decades have been carried out in concert between the Left and the Right. How have these reforms affected schools, teachers, and pupils? A study of t…
The purpose of this research project was to conduct a dynamic analysis of demand and market structure in retail food.
A substantial share of investments in retail markets aims to increase the degree…
Access to commercial services in rural and urban areas is crucial to achieving sustainable development in all regions of Sweden. Examples of frequently debated policy tools are a recently implemented…
This was a project dealing with the introduction of welfare technologies in Swedish municipalities and regions. In many cases, welfare technologies aim at increasing service quality, but can also faci…