Welcome to my home page at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
at Stockholm University.

About me; CV, working papers, datasets, family, in the gym 1, 2 and my addresses.

Classnotes and courseinfo, SNS Report Swedish Policy for Global Climate, IIES Homepage, Economics Prize, Optimal Carbon Tax

Some recent and preliminary work

· “Macroeconomic perspectives on the Corona crisis”, Fang and Hassler (Ed.), Globalization, Political Economy, Business and Society in Pandemic Times, Emerald Publishing Limited

· “Suboptimal climate policy”, with Per Krusell and Conny Olovsson, Journal of the European Economic Association, 19:6-

· “Climate Change and a Robust Global Climate Policy”, report for Fores and European Liberal Forum.

· “Climate policy in need of plan B”, with Christer Fuglesang, to appear in Festschrift in honor of the work on creative destruction by Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, by Harvard University Press.

· Errata: Thanks to Lorenz Wöhler in Leipzig, we have discovered a coding error in some of the calculations underlying our paper “Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium”. The error affects Figure 8 in the paper. Here is the corrected figure and an excel sheet with the calculations.

· “Directed technical change as a response to natural-resource scarcity”, joint with Per Krusell and Conny Olovsson, Journal of Political Economy. 129:11, November

· “Integrated epi-econ assessment”, with Timo Boppart, Karl Harmenberg, Per Krusell and Jonna Olsson, NBER WP 28282, 2020.

· “Confronting epidemics: the need for epi-econ IAMs” a report for the Swedish National Institute of Economic Resarch, with Timo Boppart, Karl Harmenberg, Per Krusell and Jonna Olsson, 2020.

· “A global CO₂ price – Necessary and sufficient”, Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 2020.

· “Swedish policies for a global climate”, SNS report on climate and climate economics, 2020.

· “Policy design for the Anthropocene”, with Thomas Sterner, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Inge van den Bijgaart, Johan Rockström and several others, Nature Sustainability 2, 2019.

· “Environmental Macroeconomics: the Case of Climate Change”, with Per Krusell, Chapter in Handbook of Environmental Economics.

· “The Consequences of Uncertainty: Climate Sensitivity and Economic Sensitivity to the Climate”, with Per Krusell and Conny Olovsson, Annual Review of Economics, 2018.

· ”Finanspolitik, penningpolitik och sambandet dem emellan”, Ekonomisk Debatt, 4:45, 2017.

· On the effectiveness of climate policies, with Per Krusell, Conny Olovsson and Michael Reiter. WP

· Environmental Macroeconomics: a chapter for the Handbook of Macroeconomics, with Per Krusell and Tony Smith

· “Climate Policy”, with Per Krusell and Jonas Nycander, Economic Policy, 2016.

· “Experiences from the Swedish Crisis in the 1990s – An Opportunity for a Complete Makeover”, Intereconomics 5:2015.

· “The Climate and the Economy”, Mistra-SWECIA Report No 5, (with Per Krusell).

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Op-eds and some other writings in Swedish

Expressenkrönikor

SNS Klimatrapport

Data Sets

Swedish Macro Data from 1861-1988 Contact me if you want to work with the data!

Private

 My wife Sussi My son Samuel My son Emil

ADDRESSES

My email address is:

My postal address and telephone number IIES, Stockholm University SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden Tel +46-8-162070, Fax +46-8-161443 Mobile: +46-708-117 26 3

My home address: Hasselstigen 2 SE-125 53 Älvsjö Sweden