Economics
Is there a trade-off between inflation and unemployment? Will artificial intelligence replace our jobs? How should the tax system be designed? And why do women still earn less money than men? Economics studies provide you with theoretical and empirical tools to analyse and investigate societal questions. At Linnaeus University, you can study economics in the economics programme, as part of other programmes, or as single-subject courses.
Economics is a broad subject that comprises many different specialisations like macroeconomics, microeconomics, labour market economics, public economics, political economics, and environmental economics.
Department of Economics and Statistics
The Department of Economics and Statistics at Linnaeus University is an international academic environment in Växjö and Kalmar. We offer undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA) and PhD level courses with dedicated teachers at the forefront of economics and statistics research.
The department is particularly strong in areas such as Labor and Demographic Economics, Public Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics and High-Dimensional Data, including Statistical Learning.
We are part of the School of Business and Economics which is AACSB accredited.
The departments main subjects: Economics, statistics.
More about The School of Business and Economics
News in economics
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Participation in P1 to discuss the use of ankle shackles News
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Debate article on the unemployment insurance reform News
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Published in the Journal of Human Resources News
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Researchers Meet to Discuss Statistics and Economics News
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New article in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics News
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New article in Forskning &Framsteg News
Upcoming events
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Seminar with Jesper Böjeryd, Stockholm University Seminar in economics and statistics
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Seminar with Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Copenhagen University Seminar in economics and statistics
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Internal seminar in economics and statistics Internal seminar in economics and statistics
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Seminar with Sascha Becker, Monash/Warwick Seminar in economics and statistics
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Seminar with Giovani Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto Seminar in economics and statistics
Education
Economics studies provide you with theoretical and empirical tools to analyse and investigate socioeconomic questions. The analysis is based on how individuals, companies and politicians act in a world of limited resources. At Linnaeus University, you can study economics on the unique economics programme, as part of other programmes, or as single-subject courses, on campus or at a distance.
At Linnaeus University, students are trained for qualified analytical work. The department exploits its unique comparative advantage of hosting two quantitatively oriented subjects and offer several courses that integrate the use of modern statistical methods for big data analysis to study economic policy. Our students have a good and broad labour market and are found at government offices, public authorities, the industry, municipalities and county councils, trade and employee organisations, and international organisations.
Education programmes
Courses Economics
Courses Economics
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Academic Writing in PracticeCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2NA042
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Advanced Data VisualizationCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA915
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Advanced Data VisualizationCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA035
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Advanced Data-driven decision makingCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA036
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Advanced Data-driven decision makingCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA916
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Advanced EconometricsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA061
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Advanced Economic MethodologyCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Half-time
- 4NA083
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Advanced Economic Policy Analysis using Big DataCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA019
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Advanced Economic Policy Analysis using Big DataCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA920
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Advanced Empirical Methods in EconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA080
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Advanced Labour EconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA081
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Advanced MacroeconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA062
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Advanced mathematical economicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA060
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Advanced MicroeconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA063
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Advanced statistical data analysisCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA099
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Advanced statistical data processingCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA909
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Advanced statistical learningCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA098
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Advanced statistical machine learningCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA910
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Advanced Topics in Analytical FinanceCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA015
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Bachelor Course in Finance ICourse 30 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2FE086
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Bachelor Course in Finance II, including degree projectCourse 30 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2FE34E
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Bachelor course in Supply Chain Management ICourse 30 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2FE097
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Basic Statistics for Business and EconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Kalmar
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST860
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Behavioral Economics for Economic Policy and Decision MakingCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Half-time
- 4NA088
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Corporate GovernanceCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE070
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Data visualisationCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST915
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Data-driven decision makingCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA926
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EconometricsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA071
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Economic growth and business cycleCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA083
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Economics of MigrationCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2NA051
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Entrepreneurship and contextCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE149
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Entrepreneurship and social changeCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE150
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Entrepreneurship as process and practiceCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE148
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Environmental Economics and Resource AllocationCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA020
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Essential mathematics for business and economicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA080
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Financial Risk AnalyticsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4NA014
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Global Innovation - Transdisciplinary System Perspectives for Sustainable ChangeCourse 30 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE168
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Intermediate Economics ICourse 30 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA026
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International Business and Entrepreneurship – Perspectives from emerging marketsCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Bachelor’s level
- Half-time
- 2FE951
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International Economics and FinanceCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2NA040
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International Market Analysis and StatisticsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Kalmar
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST403
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Introduction to Economic Policy Analysis with Big DataCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA120
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Labour EconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2NA050
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Local Innovation –Interdisciplinary Innovation Processes in Theory and PracticeCourse 30 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE169
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Logistics Management in Supply ChainsCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE170
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Managing Big Data for Economic Policy AnalysisCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA121
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Managing Innovation and EntrepreneurshipCourse 15 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE125
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Portfolio Choice TheoryCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA074
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Public Economics and the Welfare StateCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 2NA041
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Statistical data processingCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST917
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Statistical machine learningCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Distance learning
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST910
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Statistical Methods for Business and EconomicsCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Kalmar
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST861
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StatisticsCourse 7.5 credits
- Spring 2026
- Kalmar
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST401
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Statistics for Marketing DecisionsCourse 15 credits
- Spring 2026
- Kalmar
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1ST512
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Supply Chain Information SystemsCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE171
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Sustainability, entrepreneurship and social changeCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Full-time
- 4FE147
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Topics in Analytical FinanceCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA114
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Tourism Studies I – Scandinavian Tourism ManagementCourse 7.5 credits
- Summer 2025
- Kalmar
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1TR506
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Uncertainty and strategic decision makingCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2026
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
- Full-time
- 1NA082
Third-cycle (doctoral) programme in Economics
Research
Most of the research in Economics cover a broad theme about equality of opportunity, policy analysis and "big data" analytics. The department has a strong tradition of translating cutting-edge research into practice by collaborating with the surrounding society. Our research seminar takes place every Wednesday at 13:15-14:30 and features prominent guests from Sweden and abroad.
Research seminars at the department of Economics and Statistics
Upcoming research seminars
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Seminar with Jesper Böjeryd, Stockholm University Seminar in economics and statistics
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Seminar with Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Copenhagen University Seminar in economics and statistics
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Internal seminar in economics and statistics Internal seminar in economics and statistics
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Seminar with Sascha Becker, Monash/Warwick Seminar in economics and statistics
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Seminar with Giovani Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto Seminar in economics and statistics
Selected recent publications from our researchers
Selected recent publications by faculty members and affiliates at the Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University
- “Retirement consumption and pension design” (2024), Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Daniel Reck and Johannes Spinnewijn, American Economic Review
- Julien Grenet. Hans Grönqvist and Susan Niknami, (2024), “The Effects of Electronic Monitoring on Offenders and Their Families”, Journal of Public Economics
- Hammar, Olle, Mounir Karadja and Akib Khan “Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden”, (2024) Journal of Development Economics, Accepted, Pre-Results Review
- Andersson, D., M. Karadja and E. Prawitz (2023). “Mass Migration and Technological Change”, Journal of the European Economic Association.
- Andersson, D., T. Berger and E. Prawitz (2023). “Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation”, The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Carlsson, M., Dahl, G., and Rooth, D. (2023) Backlash in Policy Attitudes After the Election of an Extreme Political Party. Journal of Public Economics. Accepted.
- Carlsson, M., Finseraas, H., and Midtbøen, A. H. (2023). Are Politicians Biased Against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway. Journal of Politics. Accepted.
- "Simple equilibria in general contests", Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe, Oliver Gürtler, Games and Economic Behavior (2022)
- Dahlberg, K., Stenberg, E., Liang, Y., Nilsson, U., Jaensson, M. (2022). The General Self-Efficacy Scale in a population planned for bariatric surgery in Sweden: a psychometric evaluation study. British Medical Journal Open. 12 (11).
- Kathryn Gary, Mats Olsson, Cristina Radu, Peter Sandholt Jensen, Battista Severgnini and Paul Sharp (2022), “Monopsony power and wages: Evidence from the introduction of serfdom in Denmark”.The Economic Journal 2022
- Friedrichsen, J., König, T., Lausen, T. (2021). Social status concerns and the political economy of publicly provided private goods. Economic Journal. 131 (633). 220-246
- Nilsson, P. C. Landais, A. Nekoei, D. Seim, J. Spinnewijn (2021), “Risk-based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications”, American Economic Review, 2021
- Janet Currie, Peter Nilsson, Emilia Simeonova, and Reed Walker (2021) “Congestion Pricing, Air Pollution, and Children’s Health” Journal of Human Resources
- Grönqvist, H, Nilsson, P and P-O Robling (2020), “Understanding How Low Levels of Early Lead Exposure Affect Children's Life-Trajectories”, Journal of Political Economy
- Peter Juul Egedesø, Casper Worm Hansen and Sandholt Jensen Peter (2020) Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries. The Economic Journal
- Peter Sandholt Jensen, Karen Clay, Peter Juul Egedesø, Casper Worm Hansen and Avery Calkins Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment. Journal of Development Economics 2020
- Thomas Giebe, Spencer Bastani and Chizheng Miao (2020), Ethnicity and tax filing behavior, Journal of Urban Economics
Publications in Web of Science
- Ahmed, A and Hammarstedt, M (2022), “Customer and Worker Discrimination against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners: A Web-Based Experiment among Students in Sweden”, Journal of Homosexuality, 69, pp.1621-1630.
- Agerström, J, Carlsson, M and Erenel, A (2023), “The effect of social gender norms on parental leave uptake intentions: evidence from two survey experiments on prospective fathers and mothers”, Applied Economics, Early Access.
- Agerström, J, Carlsson, M, Bremer, A, Herlitz J, Rawshani A, Arestedt, K and Israelsson, J (2022), “Treatment and survival following in-hospital cardiac arrest: does patient ethnicity matter?” European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 21, pp.341-347.
- Aldén, L and Neuman E (2022), “Culture and the gender gap in choice of major: An analysis using sibling comparisons”, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, 201, pp.346-373.
- Aldén, L, Bastani, S, Hammarstedt M and Miao, CZ (2022), “Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment”, Small Business Economics, 58, pp. 1661-1697.
- Andersen TB and Jensen PS (2022), “Too Big to Fail and Moral Hazard: Evidence from an Epoch of Unregulated Commercial Banking”, IMF Economic Review, 70, pp.808-830.
- Andersson, D, Karadja, M and Prawitz, E (2022) “Mass Migration and Technological Change”, Journal of European Economic Association, 20, pp.1859-1896.
- Angelova, V; Giebe, T and Ivanova-Stenzel, R (2022), ”Competition and fatigue”, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, 198, pp.236-249.
- Baros, A., Croci, E., Elliot, V., Willesson, M. (2022). Bank liquidity and capital shocks in unconventional times. European Journal of Finance. E-pub, ahead of print.
- Bastani, S; Giebe, T and Guertler, O (2022), ”Simple equilibria in general contests”, Games and Economic Behaviour, 134, pp.264-280.
- Behrenz, L and Månsson, J (2023), “Why don't employers hire long-term unemployed entitled to a wage subsidy? The employer's perspective on subsidised employment”, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44, pp.161-183.
- Carlsson, M and Reshid AA (2022), “Co-worker peer effects on parental leave take-up”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Early Access.
- Carlsson, M and Eriksson, S (2022), “Do employers avoid hiring workers from poor neighborhoods? : Experimental evidence from the real labor market.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Early Access.
- Dahl, CM, Hansen CW and Jensen PS (2022), “The 1918 epidemic and a V-shaped recession: evidence from historical tax records”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Early Access.
- Demetry, M, Hjertstrand, P and Polisson, M. (2022). “Testing axioms of revealed preference in Stata”, Stata Journal, 22, pp. 319-343.
- Ek, S., Hammarstedt, M and Skedinger, P. (2023) ”Low skilled jobs, language proficiency and job opportunities for refugees: An experimental study.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Early Access.
- Gary K, Jensen PS, Olsson, M, Radu CV, Severgnini, B and Sharp P (2022), “Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark”, Economic Journal, 132, pp.2835-2872.
- Giebe, T, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Kocher, MG and Schudy, S (2023), “Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions”, Experimental Economics, Early Access.
- Heath, AJ, Carlsson, M and Agerström J (2022), “Is employer collection of diversity data attractive to potential job seekers? Ethnicity and sex differences and a UK-Sweden comparison”, Personnel Review, Early Access.
- Israelsson, J, Carlsson, M and Agerström, J (2023), “A more conservative test of sex differences in the treatment and outcome of in-hospital cardiac arrest”, Heart&Lung, 58, pp. 191-197.
- Jensen, PS, Pedersen, MU, Radu CV and Sharp, P (2022), “Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark”, Explorations in Economic History, Early Access.
- Jensen PS, Radu, CV and Sharp, P (2022), “To the manor born: a new microlevel wage database for eighteenth-century Denmark”, European Review of Economic History, Early Access.
- Li, YS and Karlsson HK (2022), “Investigating the Asymmetric Behavior of Oil Price Volatility Using Support Vector Regression”, Computational Economics, Early Access.
- Strinic, A., Carlsson, M and Agerström, J. (2022) “Occupational stereotypes : professionals' warmth and competence perceptions of occupations.” Personnel review. 51, pp. 603-619.
Research groups in Economics
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Diversity in the labour market – A multidisciplinary research environment financed by the Swedish Research Council 2019–2024
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Centre for Ageing and Lifecourse Studies A life course perspective: Center for Ageing and Lifecourse Studies look at factors that affect persons to continue to be actively involved in civil society or…
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Effects of Criminal Policy Reforms – A research environment funded by the Swedish Research Council: Swedish Criminal Justice Policy Action Lab (SCAL)
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Linnaeus University Centre for Equality of Opportunity and Big Data Policy Analysis Linnaeus University Centre for Equality of Opportunity and Big Data Policy Analysis conducts cutting-edge research…
Research projects in Economics
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Project: Obstacles and possibilities for entrepreneurship among immigrants in the trade and service sector Facs about the project Project Manager Mats Hammarstedt Project Members Mats Hammarstedt…
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Project: Consequences of becoming a vulnerable area How has the introduction of the police's list of vulnerable areas affected the life chances of residents in these areas? How has the surrounding…
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Project: Entrepreneurship after retirement – a way to enhance life satisfaction? Facts about the project Project Manager Mats Hammarstedt Project Members Mats Hammarstedt (Lnu) and Lina Aldén (fd…
Staff
Staff
- Magnus Willesson Associate professor
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- Thomas Giebe Associate professor
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- Hyunjoo Kim Karlsson Associate professor
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- Erik Prawitz Associate professor
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- Magnus Carlsson Associate professor
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- Mats Hammarstedt Professor
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- Peter Karlsson Senior lecturer, Assistant head of Department
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- Sara Värn Doctoral student
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- Lars Tomsmark Lecturer
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- Peter Nilsson Professor visiting
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- Joakim Jansson Associate senior lecturer
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- Peter Sandholt Jensen Professor
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- Marcos Demetry Doctoral student
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- Jakob Enlund Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Olle Hammar Associate senior lecturer
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- Adam Birgersson Doctoral student
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- Lars Behrenz Deputy vice-chancellor for Challenge-driven knowledge creation and analysis
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- Hans Grönqvist Professor
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- Thomas Ericson Senior lecturer
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- Lina Aldén (fd Andersson) Associate professor
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- Tobias König Associate professor, head of department
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- Jonas Kolsrud Senior lecturer
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Previous professors
Jan Ekberg
Harald Niklasson
Ghazi Shukur
Mårten Palme
Thomas Lindh
Dan-Olof Rooth
Dominique Anxo