My research interests are in the field of macroeconomics, with special focus on fiscal and monetary policy, inequality and labor supply. 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), May 2020, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, conditionally accepted
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