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Extreme weather events and their impact on competitiveness and innovation
Europe has experienced severe weather events in recent years that have disrupted food production and caused large economic and environmental damage. Recent economic disturbances following geopolitical…
Research project
Joacim Tåg
Professor, Program Director
joacim.tag@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
Henrik Jordahl
Professor
henrik.jordahl@ifn.se
Affiliated Researcher
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
Lars Persson
Professor, Deputy Director
lars.persson@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
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
Coming Together or Coming Apart? Crises, Uncertainty and Tolerance
On January 24, 2026, Niclas Berggren will present the paper "Coming Together or Coming Apart? Crises, Uncertainty and Tolerance" (co-authors: Andreas Bergh and Therese Nilsson). Niclas participates in…
Event
Publish date 1/24/2024
New book on Bitcoin
Bitcoin is neither money, a financial asset nor digital gold. Instead, it should be seen as an open Ponzi scheme, argue Roger Svensson, IFN , and Bob Seeman, the authors of the new book Bitcoin: Unlic…
News
Publish date 7/7/2021
Pär Holmberg
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
par.holmberg@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
9th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting
On November 3–4, Roger Svensson, Associate Professor and researcher at IFN, participates in the 9th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting.
Event
Publish date 11/3/2022
Kajsa Ganhammar
Ph.D. Student
kajsa.ganhammar@nek.lu.se
Graduate Student
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
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
Roger Svensson
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow
roger.svensson@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
Workshop in Prague
IFN organized a workshop at the Prague University of Economics and Business on May 23–26, 2024, within the research project “Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom,” funded by the John Templeto…
News
Publish date 6/3/2024
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