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Erik Prawitz

Ph.D.

Erik Prawitz has a Ph.D. from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. He was awarded the Alexander Gerschenkron prize for his thesis entitled On the Move: Essays on the Economic and Political Development of Sweden.

IFN Researcher

Contact

Erik Prawitz

erik.prawitz@ifn.se

Research interests: Development economics, Economic history, Innovation, Political economy

Some questions that Erik Prawitz tries to answer in his research:

How does emigration affect economic and political development in sending regions?
To what extent can new technologies, such as railroads and electricity, affect regional economic development?
What are the determinants of innovative activity?

Current writings

29 November 2024

Journal of Economic History

Inventors among the ”Impoverished Sophisticate”

Journal Article

by Thor Berger, Erik Prawitz

20 January 2024

SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Productivity Growth in the Swedish Business Sector

SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Productivity Growth in the Swedish Business Sector

Report

by Lars Persson, Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Erik Prawitz

18 January 2024

Dagens Nyheter

Sverige måste stå emot ropen på handelshinder

Op-Ed

by Lars Persson, Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Erik Prawitz

Published at IFN

Journal Articles

29 November 2024 Berger, Thor and Erik Prawitz (2024). “Inventors among the ”Impoverished Sophisticate””. Journal of Economic History 84(4), 1175–1207. doi.org/10.1017/S0022050724000433

02 January 2024 Berger, Thor and Erik Prawitz (2024). “Collaboration and Connectivity: Historical Evidence from Patent Records”. Journal of Urban Economics 139, 103629. doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2023.103629

07 March 2023 Andersson, David, Thor Berger and Erik Prawitz (2023). “Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation”. Review of Economics and Statistics 105(2), 258–274. doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01067

11 October 2022 Andersson, David , Mounir Karadja and Erik Prawitz (2022). “Mass Migration and Technological Change”. Journal of the European Economic Association 20(5), 1859–1896. doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac017

01 January 2019 Karadja, Mounir and Erik Prawitz (2019). “Exit, Voice, and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States”. Journal of Political Economy 127(4), 1864–1925. doi.org/10.1086/701682

Working Papers

17 May 2023 Berger, Thor and Erik Prawitz (2023). “Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate””. IFN Working Paper No. 1462. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

18 February 2020 Andersson, David, Thor Berger and Erik Prawitz (2020). “Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation”. IFN Working Paper No. 1319. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

08 October 2018 Karadja, Mounir and Erik Prawitz (2018). “Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States”. IFN Working Paper No. 1237. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Articles in Swedish

01 January 2018 Karadja, Mounir and Erik Prawitz (2018). “Emigrationen till Amerika och den svenska arbetarrörelsen”. Ekonomisk Debatt 46(8), 19–29.

Op-Eds

18 January 2024 Persson, Lars, Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Erik Prawitz (2024). “Sverige måste stå emot ropen på handelshinder”. Dagens Nyheter, January 18.

Popular Science

01 January 2019 Prawitz, Erik (2019). “Dissertation Summary: 'On the Move: Essays on the Economic and Political Development of Sweden'”. The Journal of Economic History 79(2), 534–538. doi.org/10.1017/S0022050719000123

Reports

20 January 2024 Persson, Lars, Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Erik Prawitz (2024). “SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Productivity Growth in the Swedish Business Sector”. Stockholm: SNS.

18 January 2024 Persson, Lars, Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Erik Prawitz (2024). “Konjunkturrådets rapport 2024. Näringslivets produktivitetsutveckling”.