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Affiliated Researcher
Niklas Wykman Minister for Financial Markets
Niklas Wykman, Ph.D. student at Örebro University and affiliated with IFN, has been appointed Minister for Financial Markets in the new government.
News
Publish date 10/18/2022
Graduate Student
Financial Intermediation Research Society's (FIRS) conference, Berlin
On May 29 - 31, Joacim Tåg will participate in the FIRS conference in Berlin. He will then present a paper on family business.
Event
Publish date 5/29/2024
The Importance of Family Firms for the Development and Balance in the Business Sector
About half of all private companies with employees in the Swedish business sector are family firms. They operate in many different areas and can be of different sizes, from very large to smaller compa…
Research project
Policy seminar : A new tax research program
Sweden is a country with high taxes and ambitus redistributes when it comes to politics. The importance of studying the role of taxes for economic activity is huge, and that is the reason for IFN crea…
Event
Publish date 2/16/2023
IFN Researcher
The First Long-Term Causal Evaluation of Unconditional Cash Transfers to Poor Families with Children and Effects of Interventions in Various Developmental Stages during Childhood
This project advances two key areas: providing a comprehensive, long-term evaluation of the impact of unconditional cash transfers (UCT) and understanding the effect of interventions on children at va…
Research project
Income inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, writes about income inequality in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publish date 8/13/2021
IFN Researcher
Presentation of the SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024: Swedish productivity among the best in the world
At a seminar at SNS on January 18, Lars Persson (chair), Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, and Erik Prawitz presented the SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2024. They are all researchers at or affili…
News
Publish date 1/19/2024
The Economics of Entrepreneurship
In the acclaimed book The Resilient Society: Economics After Covid, the author, Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier, describes how the experiences from the covid-pandemic have highlighted the valu…
Research program
The pandemic and its implications on trust
Sweden has one of the highest trust levels in the world. At a recent policy seminar, research on how the pandemic has affected trust levels in Sweden was presented.
News
Publish date 2/22/2022
IFN Researcher
IFN Researcher
Self-Employment in the Countryside
In the project, barriers and success factors for self-employment in rural areas in Sweden are examined. Both registry data and survey data are utilized in the study.
Research project
Behavioral Responses to Health Risks and Policies during Epidemics
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted shortcomings of standard epidemiological models in accurately predicting the spread of the virus. This, in turn, undermined the ability to conduct reliable policy ana…
Research project
Affiliated Researcher
Procure Better: An Evaluation of Private Ambulance Providers’ Efficiency in Emergency Medical Services under New Contractual Regulations
A common argument against the economic theory that certain services are unsuitable for private providers is that the issues instead stem from inadequate expertise on the part of the contract issuer. W…
Research project
Long-term Effects of Including Low-Performing Children in Regular Classes
What are the long-term effects on students of including children with lower measured IQ in regular education? This project aims to investigate this question using unique data for cohorts born between…
Research project