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Competition policy
Consumption
Covid-19
Family business
Health economics
Household finance
Privatization
Risk management
IFN Researcher
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
Petra Persson
Assistant Professor
perssonp@stanford.edu
Affiliated Researcher
IFN Researcher
Joacim Tåg
Professor, Program Director
joacim.tag@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
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
Income inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, writes about income inequality in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publish date 8/13/2021
Reassessing the mental health crisis among PhD students
Joacim Tåg, IFN, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer, Aalto University School of Business in Finland and affiliated to IFN, writes a column in VoxEU on reassessing the mental health crisis among PhD st…
Media coverage
Publish date 11/12/2024
Per Hjertstrand
Associate Professor
per.hjertstrand@ifn.se
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
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
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
IFN Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
Sweden's Successful Financin of a Strong Welfare System: A Model for Other Countries?
Mårten Blix, IFN, presents his and Henrik Jordahl's book Privatizing Welfare Services –Lessons from the Swedish Experiment at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF.
Event
Publish date 12/14/2021