Industrial economics news

Johan explains why social exclusion is inconsistent with the Swedish model. He also suggests policies to shrink the employment gap between the domestic and foreign-born such as investing in building skills through school-to-work programs. Read more on his recent interview at BLT’s website (in Swedish): https://www.blt.se/naringsliv/fler-maste-forsorja-sig-sjalva/ Johan E Eklund is Chief Economist of Sydsvenska Industri […]

Johan Eklund, along with Johan P. Larsson, has published a new book “The new social exclusion, the development of self-sufficiency and the future of the welfare state” analyzing unemployment and social exclusion among the foreign born in Sweden and the implications for the welfare state. Over the past few decades, Sweden has had a high […]

Johanna Börrefors, researcher at TIEK, has coauthored two chapters in the anthology Criminological theories and how to use them (Kriminologiska teorier och hur man använder dem). The anthology includes contributions from researchers in the field of criminology and examines the theory of rational choices, control theory, as well as resilience theory linked to risk and […]

Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol was awarded Best Quantitative Paper at the 2024 Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Conference (ACERE) in Sydney, Australia.   Viroj presented his paper titled “Agglomeration economies, the birth and infancy performance of new firms: Evidence along the industry life cycle,” which was written together with co-authors Javier Changoluisa from Universidad Espiritu Santo, Ecuador and Aldo Salinas from Universidad de las Américas, Ecuador. The paper studies how agglomeration economies influence the […]

Innovation drives the Swedish economy forward. Policymakers, in creating a regulatory environment that is favorable for innovation, influence whether and how much firms innovate. The Handbook of Economic Regulation, edited by TIEK professors Pontus Braunerhjelm, Martin Andersson, and Johan Eklund together with Knut Blind, explores this complex interconnection between innovation and regulation. The Handbook was […]

BTH is developing an expert research team in industrial economics and management. BTH is already strong in measuring the effects of change, such as political change, but the field of efficiency and productivity analysis is relatively new and BTH now aims to become the leader in Sweden and an important player internationally. “Behind a result, […]