In English

I'm a researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm. My research interests are mainly pensions and taxation. I have a PhD in economics from Uppsala University. I'm originally from Skellefteå in northern Sweden.

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Publications

Articles in academic journals

• ”Taxes, benefits and labour force participation: A survey of the quasi-experimental literature” (2020, with John Norell), Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 1 (1)
• ”Wealth inequality in Sweden: What can we learn from capitalized income data?” (2018, with Daniel Waldenström), Review of Income and Wealth, 64 (3)
• ”Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden” (2017, with Spencer Bastani), Journal of Economic Inequality, 15 (4)

Working papers

• ”Analyzing tax reforms using the Swedish Labour Income Microsimulation Model” (2017), Uppsala University Department of Economics Working Paper 2017:12
• ”The Laffer curve for high incomes” (2017), Uppsala University Department of Economics Working Paper 2017:9

PhD thesis

• Essays on Income Taxation and Wealth Inequality, approved 6 October 2017

Master's thesis

• Empirics of institutions and growth

Reports

• Taxing Capital: An International Comparison (2021, with Johannes Nathell), Epicenter and Tax Foundation
• Taxing High Incomes: A Comparison of 41 Countries (2019, with Gustaf Fritzon), Epicenter and Tax Foundation
• How the municipal VAT exemptions promote tax increases in the EU (2018), Epicenter
• The taxation of high-income earners: An international comparison (2017, with Alexander Fritz Englund), Epicenter
• ”The triumph of global capitalism” (2012), Adam Smith Institute

Education

2012–2017: PhD Economics, Uppsala University
2011–2012: MPhil Economics, University of Cambridge
2008–2011: BA Economics and Management, University of Oxford