Completed Projects
Collectively bargained wage increases are an important determinant of labor costs in Sweden. Their impact likely depends on the level of local competition. In this project, we combined data on collect…
Firms face many risks in their operations. One kind of risk relates to accidents on the stock of capital. In this project, we studied how firms reinvest and grow after being by such a negative shock.…
Financial constraints force firms to choose between investing in growth or risk management. However, we know relatively little about risk management in small firms. We studied this setting by combinin…
Policymakers in Europe have recently begun to focus on the relative underrepresentation of women on corporate boards, and numerous countries are considering the implementation of gender quotas. In 200…
The purpose of this project is to measure the gains from globalization and economic integration. In the first three subprojects we will explicitly test some of the major assumptions that researchers e…
This project studies the income and wealth of Swedish households. A new and uniquely complete individual-level registry database has been constructed covering all years since 1968. This database entai…