On September 25, Minister for Finance Elisabeth Svantesson attended an economics lecture at Stockholm University, where she outlined the government’s new budget and took questions from students.
The Swedish government wants to temporarily halve the food VAT to ease the financial burden on households. Now João Quelhas, a PhD student in economics at Stockholm University, tells SVT Nyheter about Portugal’s experience when the country reduced VAT on food.
Yunxi Yang has been awarded a scholarship from the Swedish Institute for Health Economics and the Bengt Jönsson Foundation for Health Economics Research.
A study by João Quelhas and Tiago Bernardino, PhD students in economics at Stockholm University, provides empirical evidence on the effects of a temporary VAT reduction on food prices in Portugal.
