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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
Meet Europe's Richest
Who are the richest people in Europe? Where do they get their money and what do they do with it? How do they convert their financial wealth into political influence? And how much inequality is reasona…
Event
Publish date 9/15/2023
Lars Calmfors
Professor
lars.calmfors@ifn.se
IFN Researcher
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
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
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
IFN 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
IFN Researcher
Harald Edquist
Associate Professor
harald.edquist@ericsson.com
Affiliated Researcher
IFN Researchers receive funding from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse and Tore Browaldhs stiftelse
Björn Tyrefors has received funding of SEK 1,700,000 for the research project "The First Long-Term Causal Evaluation of Unconditional Cash Transfers to Poor Families." The project investigates the eff…
News
Publish date 5/8/2024
Petra Persson
Assistant Professor
perssonp@stanford.edu
Affiliated Researcher
"The Duncan Black Prize" goes to an affiliated researcher at IFN
Christian Bjørnskov, affiliated researcher at IFN, has been awarded "The Duncan Black Prize" for his article "Emergencyncies: on the misuse of government powers".
News
Publish date 3/17/2023
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
Where do Ukrainians want to go? Migration aspirations and destination-country preferences in Ukraine
Since the beginning of the full-scale war one year ago, eight million Ukrainians have left the country. But how many Ukrainians want to leave the country permanently? And to which destination countrie…
Media coverage
Publish date 2/27/2023
V and MP lift abandoned food tax, accused of bias towards the wealthy
Spain has recently eliminated the food VAT, and Coop’s CEO has also suggested a similar proposal to the Minister of Finance. But Daniel Waldenström, professor at IFN, says to SVT that reducing food V…
Media coverage
Publish date 3/27/2023
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
The Significance of Cultural Norms for Immigrants Employment and Corporate Performance
In an era of significant immigration, integration is crucial. Society functions more effectively when individuals with foreign backgrounds participate in the economic, political, and social spheres al…
Research project
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