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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
The 25th Danish and 1st Baltic Public Choice Workshop, 2025
On January 30 - February 1, 2025, The 25th Danish and 1st Baltic Public Choice Workshop, will be organized in Malmö. IFN researchers who will participate are Niclas Berggren, Andreas Bergh, Christian…
Event
Publish date 2/1/2025
Workshop in Economic History
The 3rd edition of the Workshop in Economic History will take place in Uppsala on May 22 and 23, 2025. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a space for both senior and junior scholars (including…
Event
Publish date 5/22/2025
Book review: Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great Shool System – and How to Reverse the Trend
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 Independent Review.
Media coverage
Publish date 10/21/2022
IFN 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
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
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
Affiliated Researcher
Fredrik Sjöholm member of the Rockwool Foundation Program Committé for research on Productivity and Competition
Fredrik Sjöholm is one of the members of the Danish Rockwool Foundation's new investment in research on productivity and competitiveness.
With the new research unit, the Rockwool Foundation wants to…
News
Publish date 1/22/2025
IFN Researcher
IFN Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
Euro discussion returns due to weak Swedish krona
Swedish krona or Euro? Lars Calmfors, researcher at IFN, who investigated whether Sweden should join the single European currency on behalf of the government in the 1990s, in interviewed in Sveriges R…
Media coverage
Publish date 7/3/2023
ASREC 2023 Conference at Harvard University
Papers on religion and culture from across the Social Sciences, including Economics, Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology will be considered.
Event
Publish date 3/17/2023
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