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Emil Bustos

Ph.D.

Emil Bustos defended his thesis Essays on Firms' Hiring, Investment and Risk Management Decisions in May 2022 at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research is focused on applied microeconomics, labor economics, and business finance. Emil is particularly interested in the importance of collective agreements and credit markets for companies' investment and employment decisions. As of August 2024, Emil Bustos is affiliated with IFN.

Affiliated Researcher

Contact

Emil Bustos

emil.bustos@ifn.se

Research interests: Corporate finance, Economic growth, Industrial economics, Innovation, Labor economics, Minimum wages, Technological change

Some questions Emil Bustos tries to answer in his research:

How do trade unions and centrally negotiated wages affect companies' hiring and investment decisions?
What does the difficulty in obtaining bank loans mean for the ability of small businesses to grow and manage risk?
How can companies recover after suffering negative shocks?

Current writings

26 June 2024

Working Paper No. 1495

Partial Retirement and Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Collective Bargaining Agreements

Working Paper

by Emil Bustos

25 June 2024

Working Paper No. 1494

Collectively Bargained Wages and Female Earnings: Evidence from Swedish Local Governments

Working Paper

by Emil Bustos

25 June 2024

Working Paper No. 1493

Financial Constraints and Cash Holdings in Private Firms: Evidence from Discontinuous Credit Ratings

Working Paper

by Oliver Engist, Emil Bustos

Published at IFN

Book Chapters

31 March 2021 Blix, Mårten and Emil Bustos (2021). “Money for Nothin’: Digitalization and Fluid Tax Bases”. In Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Karin Leijon, Anna Michalski and Lars Oxelheim (Eds.), The European Union and the Technology Shift (185–209). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

01 January 2020 Blix, Mårten and Emil Bustos (2020). “Flyktiga skattebaser och digitalisering – vad bör EU göra?”. In Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Michalski, Anna and Lars Oxelheim (Eds.), EU och teknologiskiftet. Europaperspektiv 2020 (207–231). Stockholm: Santérus Förlag.

Working Papers

26 June 2024 Bustos, Emil (2024). “Partial Retirement and Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Collective Bargaining Agreements”. IFN Working Paper No. 1495. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

25 June 2024 Bustos, Emil (2024). “Collectively Bargained Wages and Female Earnings: Evidence from Swedish Local Governments”. IFN Working Paper No. 1494. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

25 June 2024 Engist, Oliver and Emil Bustos (2024). “Financial Constraints and Cash Holdings in Private Firms: Evidence from Discontinuous Credit Ratings ”. IFN Working Paper No. 1493. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

24 May 2023 Bustos, Emil (2023). “The Effect of Financial Constraints on Inventory Holdings”. IFN Working Paper No. 1463. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

31 March 2023 Bustos, Emil (2023). “The Effect of Centrally Bargained Wages on Firm Growth”. IFN Working Paper No. 1456. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

20 December 2022 Bustos, Emil, Oliver Engist, Gustav Martinsson and Christian Thomann (2022). “Financing Constraints and Risk Management: Evidence From Micro-Level Insurance Data”. IFN Working Paper No. 1452. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

05 February 2020 Blix, Mårten and Emil Bustos (2020). “Money for Nothin’ – Digitalization and Fluid Tax Bases”. IFN Working Paper No. 1316. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Reports

28 March 2023 Bustos, Emil (2023). “Skattar bäst som skattar sist? Sverige och den nya minimibeskattningen”.

20 June 2022 Bustos, Emil (2022). “Lägstalöner och sysselsättning i den nya arbetsmarknadsforskningen”.