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Joacim Tåg
Professor, Program Director
joacim.tag@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
Björn Tyrefors
Professor
bjorn.tyrefors@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
Podcast: Maternal Mortality, Race and Income
The maternal mortality rate in the US is three to four times higher than in comparable rich countries. Moreover, it is much higher for African American women than for white women, as well as for low-i…
Media coverage
Publish date 5/1/2023
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
Magnus Henrekson
Professor
magnus.henrekson@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
Eleanor Johansson
Ph.D. student
eleanor.johansson@slu.se
Graduate Student
Conference: Taxes and distribution policy
IFN:s new research program "Taxes and Society" has organized an international conference. Researchers from other Nordic countries and the US attended the conference in Vaxholm with the purpose to pres…
News
Publish date 6/12/2023
Will Joe Biden's proposed taxes on capital make America an outlier?
Research by Daniel Waldenström, IFN, och Spencer Bastani, IFAU and affiliated with IFN, is referred to in The Economist.
Media coverage
Publish date 5/1/2021
The ability gradient in tax responsiveness
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, and Spencer Bastani, IFAU and affiliated to IFN, write a column on the ability gradient in tax responsiveness in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publish date 6/20/2022
Martin Andersson
Professor
martin.andersson@bth.se
Affiliated Researcher
Conference Report
Since 2000, IFN has organized a yearly conference within areas of research in Stockholm. This year, it was organized within the newly started research program “Taxation and society” which is led by Da…
Taxation Research Project
The IFN taxation research project aims to increase our knowledge about the role of taxes in the Swedish economy. Taxes are the main source of funding of investments in infrastructure and public welfar…
Research project
Karin Edmark
Senior Lecturer
karin.edmark@sofi.su.se
Affiliated Researcher
The brave new world of Swedish education
Magnus Henrekson's and Johan Wennström's book Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great Shool System – and How to Reverse the Trend, is reviewed in The Critic.
Media coverage
Publish date 4/18/2022
Returning to the Classical View of Knowledge: An Interview with Johan Wennström
Johan Wennström, IFN, is interviewed by The European Conservative on his and co-author Magnus Henrekson's book Dumbing Down.
Media coverage
Publish date 8/6/2022
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
Policy Seminar: Is the Market Economy Culturally Harmful?
IFN arranged a policy seminar on March 7, 2024, entitled “Is the Market Economy Culturally Harmful?”. It featured the presentation of two studies from the research project “Cultures of Trust and Insti…
News
Publish date 3/8/2024
Christian Bjørnskov
Professor
chbj@econ.au.dk
Affiliated Researcher
Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom
This project entails two interrelated core themes: Can institutions embodying economic freedom, contrary to the skepticism of some, contribute to fairness, trust, equality and responsibility; and can…
Research project