Karin Edmark defended her thesis "Strategic Interactions among Swedish Local Governments" at Uppsala University in 2007. Her research is mainly empirically oriented and within the areas of economics of education and public economics.
In the area of public economics, Karin Edmark has studied which factors affect municipality decision making, for example, whether municipalities take strategic considerations when they decide on taxes and expenditures.
Karin Edmark’s current research projects study the effects on choice and competition within the educational sector, taxes, and entrepreneurship.