Publications in refereed journals

Income, Education and Democracy”, (with Stephen L. Parente and Luis Felipe Sáenz). Journal of Economic Growth, 27, 193-233. 2022.

"Oligarchies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites" (with Anders Akerman and Alireza Naghavi), Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 229-246, 2016.

"Earned Income Tax Credits, Unemployment Benefits and Wages: Empirical Evidence from Sweden" (with Helge Bennmarker and Lars Calmfors), IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 3:54, 2014.

"The Global Arms Trade Network 1950-2007" (with Anders Akerman), Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(3), 535-551, 2014.

"Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes" (with Stephen L. Parente), European Economic Review, 64, 35-56, 2013.

"Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in a Small Open Economy" (with Lars Calmfors), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115(1), 109-140, 2013.

"Testing the Impact of Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence on Labour Market Outcomes" (with Johnny Zetterberg), Oxford Economic Papers, 65(2), 240-267, 2013.

"Fiscal Activism under Inflation Targeting and Non-atomistic Wage Setting", Economica, 79, 97-114, 2012.

"On Labour Mobility and the Neutrality of Money in Unionised Economies", Economic Modelling, 28(1-2), 396-403, 2011.

"The Swedish Real Exchange Rate under Different Currency Regimes", Review of World Economics, 140(4), 706-727, 2004.

Other publications in English

Stability in the Balance - a Report on the Roles of Fiscal and Monetary Policy to the Expert Group on Public Economics (with Lars Calmfors and John Hassler), ESO 2023:1, 2023.

"Wage Formation and the Swedish Labour Market Reforms 2007-2009" (with Helge Bennmarker and Lars Calmfors), Studier i Finanspolitik 2011/1, Background report to the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, 2011.

"Aggregate and Regional Business Cycle Synchronisation in the Nordic Countries" (with Nevena Gaco and Henrik Sikström), SIEPS 2009:7, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Stockholm, 2009.

"Comment on Stefan Niemann and Jürgen von Hagen: Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies: A Fresh Look at the Issue"  pdf (151 Kb) , Swedish Economic Policy Review, 15, 125-129, 2008.

Real Effects of Monetary Regimes, IIES Monograph Series No. 57, Institute for International Economic Studies, 2007.

Selected publications in Swedish

Utvärdering av penningpolitiken 2022 (with John Hassler and Per Krusell), Rapporter från Riksdagen 2022/23:RFR5, Finansutskottet FiU, 2023.

Svensk finanspolitik 2023 (with Lars Heikensten (ordf.), Anette Alstadsæter, Mats Dillén, Jesper Roine and Lisa Laun), Finanspolitiska rådets rapport, 2023. English summary downloadable here.

Samspel för stabilitet – en ESO-rapport om rollfördelningen mellan finans- och penningpolitik (with Lars Calmfors and John Hassler), the Expert Group on Public Economics, 2022:3, 2022.

Enkla regler, svåra tider - behöver stabiliseringspolitiken förändras? (with Martin Flodén, Morten O. Ravn and Anders Vredin), SNS Konjunkturrådsrapport 2012. English version, "Simple Rules, Difficult Times”, downloadable here.