Recent publications

Our researchers publish in top economics journals and write for various research projects and education publishers. Here is a selection of their most recent work.

2025

Lennart Erixon

”Bankerna vill ha e-kronor – men du ska inte få ha dem” – Banks Want to Have the E-krona – But Not for You (with Samuel Färdow Kazen). Dagens Nyheter (DN Debatt), 5 November 2025.

Rikard Forslid

”Hur påverkas handel och produktivitet av euron?”, i L. Calmfors (red.), Dags för euron? (s.119-150), Stiftelsen Fritt Näringsliv, 2025.

Montasser Ghachem

”A methodological approach to the computational problems in the estimation of adjusted PIN model” (with Oguz Ersan), Quantitative Finance (2025, Vol. 25, Issue 7, pp. 1133–1145).

”Estimation of the probability of informed trading models via an expectation-conditional maximization algorithm” (with Oguz Ersan), Financial Innovation at Springer (2025, Vol. 11, Article 67; published 24 January 2025).

Lisa Laun

"Pension Reform, Incentives to Retire and Retirement Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Micro-Data", with M. Palme, in Börsch-Supan and Coile (eds.), Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

"Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Experimental Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms", with Cheung, M., J. Egebark, A. Forslund, M. Rödin and J. Vikström, Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 43(1).

"The Rising Income Gradient in Life Expectancy in Sweden over Six Decades", with Hagen, J., C. Lucke and M. Palme, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS), 122 (14) e2418145122.

"Den ökande ojämlikheten i livslängd i Sverige 1962-2021", with Hagen, J., C. Lucke and M. Palme, IFAU-rapport 2025:15.

Inkomsttrygghetens nya mosaik – kompletterande ersättningar vid inkomstbortfall i Sverige, Cronert, A., K. Eklund, and K. Meiton , SNS Förlag, Stockholm and IFAU Rapport 2025:16.

SOU 2025:41, Pensionsnivåer och pensionsavgiften – analyser på hundra års sikt, Betänkande från Pensionsavgiftsutredningen.

Andreas Madestam

SMEs and Workers during Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda, with S. Gulesci, F. Loiacono, M. Stryjan. AEA Papers and Proceedings vol. 115, May 2025 (pp. 345–50)

Mårten Palme

"The Rising Income Gradient in Life Expectancy in Sweden over Six Decades", with Hagen, J., Laun, L. and C. Lucke, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS), 122 (14) e2418145122.

Markus Pettersson

”A Distributional Cost-of-Living Index From Aggregate Data” , with Hochmuth, P., and Weissert, C.J. , Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 71(4), pp. 1–18.

João Nuno Rebelo da Silva Monjardim Quelhas

”The full, persistent, and symmetric pass-through of a temporary VAT cut”, with Tiago Bernardino, Ricardo Duque Gabriel, Márcia Silva-Pereira, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 248, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105416.

David Seim

”Wealth Tax Enforcement in Sweden: Filing Requirements and Pre-Populated Returns” with Emmanuel Saez. Journal of Public Economics, 249, 2025, 105440.

”Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search and Efficiency” with Jonas Cederlöf, Peter Fredriksson and Arash Nekoei. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(1): 585-633, 2025.

Jósef Sigurdsson

”Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy vol. 17, no. 4, November 2025 (pp. 30–71)

Claes-Henric Siven

”Ekonomporträttet: Bo Axell”, Ekonomisk Debatt 2025 nr 2, pp 61 – 68. Written together with Mats Persson.

Ferenc Szucs

”A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory” (with Adam Szeidl), American Economic Review, 115(9): 3217-47, 2025.

Peter Skogman Thoursie

”Taxes, childcare and gender identity norms”, with Petrongolo, B., Ichino, A., Olsson, M. Journal of Labor Economics 2025.

Roine Vestman

Svensk penningpolitik 2024, with John Hassler, Karin Kinnerud and Per Krusell. Rapporter från riksdagen 2024/25:RFR13.

 2024

Lennart Erixon

”Dags för en ny penningpolitik”, (with Samuel Färdow Kasen), Dagens Industri, 27 February 2024.

”Öka finanspolitikens handlingsutrymme – men behåll Riksbankens oberoende”, (with Samuel Färdow Kasen). Dagens Industri, 3 October 2024.

Montasser Ghachem

”Identifying Information Types in the Estimation of Informed Trading: An Improved Algorithm” (with Oguz Ersan). Journal of Risk and Financial Management (2024, Vol. 17, Issue 9, pp. 409).

Andreas Madestam

”Repayment Flexibility and Risk Taking: Experimental Evidence from Credit Contracts” (with Marianna Battaglia and Selim Gulesci), Review of Economic Studies, 91(5).

Astri Muren

”Styrning av samhällsvetenskaplig forskning”, kap. 2 i J. Eliasson och M. Vredin (red.) I samhällets tjänst? En ESO-antologi om villkoren för forskning och samverkan, Rapport till Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi 2024:2.

Mårten Palme

”Identity in court decision-making” (with Ulrika Ahrsjö and Susan Niknami), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16 (4), 142-164

”Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021” (with Arizo Karimi and Charlotte Lucke), Fiscal studies 45 (2), 187-204.

Mikael Priks

”Hur påverkar polis och övervakningskameror brottslighet”, SNS.

David Strömberg

”Social media and collective action in China”, Econometrica, with Bei Qin and Yanhui Wu.

Ferenc Szucs

”Equilibrium communication in political scandals”, European Journal of Political Economy, with Bence Hamrak and Gabor Simonovits.

”Why Politicians Won't Apologize: Communication Effects in the Aftermath of Sex Scandals”, British Journal of Political Science, with Bence Hamrak, Alex Rusnak, and Gabor Simonovits.

”Discretion and Favoritism in Public Procurement”, Journal of the European Economic Association.

Peter Thoursie

”Effects of work-directed interventions on return-to-work in people on sick-leave for to common mental disorders – a systematic review” (with Elisabeth Björk Brämberg et al.), International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2024.

Jonas Vlachos

Björkegren, Evelina, Svaleryd, Helena and Vlachos, Jonas. (2024). ”Remote instruction and student mental health: Swedish evidence from the pandemic”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16(4), 491-517.

2023

December

Roine Vestman, ”Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment” (with Paolo Sodini, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal), American Economic Review

November

Montasser Ghachem, ”PINstimation: An R Package for Estimating Probability of Informed Trading Models” (with Oguz Ersan), R Journal

September

Lennart Erixon, Luftslott eller riksintresse? Industriavtalets effekter på svensk ekonomi 1998–2019, Katalys

Rikard Forslid, ”Globotics and Development: When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable” (with R.Baldwin), World Trade Review

August

David Seim, ”Bounds on a Slope from Size Restrictions on Economic Shocks” (with Marco Stenborg Pettersson and Jesse Shapiro), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

July

Claes-Henric Siven, ”Bent Hansen’s Theory of Fiscal Policy”, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

May

Annika Alexius and Mikaela Holmberg, ”Pass through with Volatile Exchange Rates and Inflation Targeting", The Review of World Economics

Rikard Forslid, ”Trade, Location, and Multi-product Firms” (with Toshihiro Okubo), Regional Science and Urban Economics

February

Mathias Herzing and Adam Jacobsson, ”Enhancing Compliance with Waste Sorting Regulations through Inspections and Motivational Interviewing” (with Hans Wickström, Håkan Källmén and Lars Forsberg), Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy

January

Mikael Priks and Jonas Vlachos, Nationalekonomins verktyg, Studentlitteratur

2022

September

Per Pettersson Lidbom, ”Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States. A Comment on Karadja and Prawitz (Journal of Political Economy, 2019”, Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics

June

Anna Seim, ”Income, Education and Democracy” (with Stephen L. Parente and Luis Felipe Sáenz), Journal of Economic Growth

April

Mathias Herzing and Jonas Häckner, ”The Strategic Interaction between Cartels and Anti-trust Authorities”, International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 70, 106066.

March

Paul Klein, ”Optimal Tax Policy and Endogenous Growth through Innovation” (with Till Gross), Journal of Public Economics

January

Jonas Häckner and Mathias Herzing, ”Tax Incidence in Oligopolistic Markets”, Economics Letters

2021

August

David Seim, ”Hysteresis from Employer Subsidies” (with Emmanuel Saez and Benjamin Schoefer), Journal of Public Economics

May

Rikard Forslid and Mathias Herzing, ”Who to Vaccinate First?”, CEPR's Covid Economics

Rikard Forslid and Mathias Herzing, ”Assessing the Consequences of Quarantines during a Pandemic”, European Journal of Health Economics

Last updated: 2026-04-07

Source: Department of Economics