I am the Eva and Mats Qviberg Professor in Economics. My research interests are in the field of macroeconomics, with special focus on fiscal and monetary policy, inequality and labor supply. I have for example studied child care reform with an application to Germany, how demographic change affects international capital flows, how labor income risk varies over the business cycle, what explains the wage gap between those with a university degree and those without, and how tax and pension systems affect income and wealth inequality. Recently, my research has focused on fiscal and monetary policy in time of economic crisis. See here for publications
I teach macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and in executives education programs.
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Some representative publications:
Skewed Idiosyncratic Income Risk over the Business-Cycle: Sources and Insurance (with Christopher Busch, Fatih Guvenen, and Rocio Holgado), 2022, 14(2), pp. 207-242, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics,
Rational Bubbles in UK Housing Markets: Comment on “No-Bubble Condition: Model-Free Tests in Housing Markets” (with Tore Ellingsen), Econometrica, 2020, 88(4), pp. 1755-1766
Public Sector Employment and the Skill Premium: Sweden versus United States 1970-2002, (with Lars Ljungqvist), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121(1), pp. 3-31, Editor's choice for the best paper of 2019
Rational Bubbles and Public Debt Policy: A Quantitative Analysis (with Tore Ellingsen), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018, 96, pp. 109-123
Should daycare be subsidized?, (with Paul Klein), Review of Economics Studies, 2013, 80(2), pp. 568-595
Population Aging and International Capital Flows, (with Martin Flodén), International Economic Review, 2006, 47(3), pp. 1013-1032
The labor-supply elasticity and borrowing constraints: Why estimates are biased, (with Martin Flodén), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2006, 9(2), pp. 242-262
On the Distributional Effects of Reducing Capital Taxes, (with Jonathan Heathcote), International Economic Review, 2004, 45(2), 523-554