Florin Maican

Associate Professor

Florin Maican is Associate Professor in Economics and has been affiliated with IFN since June 2011. Today, he works at the University of Gothenburg, where he teaches industrial economics. He is also affiliated with CEPR.

Affiliated Researcher

Contact

Florin Maican

Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

+46 (0)31 786 4866

+46 (0)76 235 3039

florin.maican@ifn.se

Research interests: Industrial organization, International investments, Technological change

Among the questions that Florian Maican tries to answer with his research:

What is the impact of regulation and deregulation on competition, industry dynamics, and productivity?
What are the determinants of market structure and competition in service industries, e.g. retail, IT services?
What is the impact of competition and R&D investments on productivity dynamics and innovation?
What is the impact of various economic policies and aggregate shocks on exchange rates?

Current writings

08 August 2023

Journal of the European Economic Association

The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment

Journal Article

by Florin Maican, Matilda Orth, Mark J. Roberts, Van Anh Vuong

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04 May 2022

Uppdragsforskningsrapport 2022:4

Apoteksmarknaden ur ett konkurrensperspektiv

Report

by Matilda Orth, Florin Maican

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01 April 2021

Working Paper No. 1386

Entry Regulations and Product Variety in Retail

Working Paper

by Matilda Orth, Florin Maican

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Published at IFN

Journal Articles

08 August 2023 Maican, Florin, Matilda Orth, Mark J. Roberts and Van Anh Vuong (2023). “The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment”. Journal of the European Economic Association 21(4), 1318–1362. doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac065

03 March 2021 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2021). “Determinants of Economies of Scope in Retail”. International Journal of Industrial Organization 75, 102710. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2021.102710

01 May 2018 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2018). “Entry Regulations, Welfare and Determinants of Market Structure”. International Economic Review 59(2), 727–756. doi.org/10.1111/iere.12286

01 June 2017 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2017). “Productivity Dynamics and the Role of ‘Big–Box’ Entrants in Retailing”. Journal of Industrial Economics 65(2), 397–438. doi.org/10.1111/joie.12121

01 May 2015 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2015). “A Dynamic Analysis of Entry Regulations and Productivity in Retail Trade”. International Journal of Industrial Organization 40, 67–80. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2015.03.006

02 January 2014 Maican, Florin and Richard J. Sweeney (2014). “Costs of Misspecification in Break–model Unit–Root Tests”. Applied Economics 46(1), 111–118. doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2013.831171

01 March 2013 Maican, Florin and Richard J. Sweeney (2013). “Real Exchange Rate Adjustment in European Transition Countries”. Journal of Banking & Finance 37(3), 907–926. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.10.007

Working Papers

01 April 2021 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2021). “Entry Regulations and Product Variety in Retail”. IFN Working Paper No. 1386. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

13 October 2020 Maican, Florin, Matilda Orth, Mark J. Roberts and Van Anh Vuong (2020). “The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment”. IFN Working Paper No. 1366. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

08 November 2018 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2018). “Determinants of Economies of Scope in Retail”. IFN Working Paper No. 1247. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

28 December 2015 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2015). “Entry Regulations, Welfare and Determinants of Market Structure”. IFN Working Paper No. 1102. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

11 October 2013 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2013). “Entry Regulations, Product Differentiation and Determinants of Market Structure”. IFN Working Paper No. 984. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

14 November 2012 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2012). “A Dynamic Analysis of Entry Regulations and Productivity in Retail Trade ”. IFN Working Paper No. 939. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

18 January 2012 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2012). “Productivity Dynamics and the Role of “Big-Box” Entrants in Retailing”. IFN Working Paper No. 898. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Articles in Swedish

01 January 2018 Maican, Florin and Matilda Orth (2018). “Digitalisering, strukturomvandling och produktivitet i tjänsteföretag”. Ekonomisk Debatt 46(1), 47–58.

01 January 2012 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2012). “Marknadsstruktur och dynamik i dagligvaruhandeln”. Ekonomisk Debatt 40(1), 11–15.

Op-Eds

02 November 2016 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2016). “Samhället tjänar på sänkta krav”. Market, November 2.

23 September 2016 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2016). “Se möjligheterna med "big data"”. Fri Köpenskap, September 23.

16 September 2016 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2016). “Sänk kraven för nya matbutiker - det tjänar hela samhället på”. Dagens Samhälle, September 16.

Reports

04 May 2022 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2022). “Apoteksmarknaden ur ett konkurrensperspektiv”.

01 January 2016 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2016). “Strategisk mix av dagligvarubutiksformat – metoder för att effektivt analysera marknaden”. Stockholm: Handelsrådet.

IFN Newsletter

01 December 2019 Orth, Matilda and Florin Maican (2019). “Deregulating Retail: The Hidden Impact of a Lower Bar to Entry”. IFN Newsletter (2), 1–4.

Contact

Florin Maican

Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

+46 (0)31 786 4866

+46 (0)76 235 3039

florin.maican@ifn.se

External website

Florin Maican's primary research is in the field of industrial organization and applied microeconomics, particularly the industry dynamics and determinants of intensity of competition such as productivity, R&D, entry and exit. Florin's work closely connects to competition and business policy.

In recent years, Maican has analyzed competition in retail food, R&D intensive industries, and information technology (IT) services. He has evaluated the impact of aggregate demand shocks on industry dynamics and estimated industry dynamics primitives such as sunk costs of entry, costs associated with exit, costs of adjustment in labor, capital or product repositioning in service industries.

Florin Maican's secondary research is in the field of international finance with a focus on exchange rates. He examines the speed of convergence in real exchange rates