In an article in SvD Näringsliv, IIES Assistant Professor, Mitch Downey, provides commentary on the newly appointed US Secretary of Treasury, Janet Yellen, and the reforms she intends to put forward.
Assistant Professor Mitch Downey explains how the election of Joe Biden as the next President of the United States will have a large impact on the future of the US trade union movement.
IIES Professor Lars Calmfors takes a critical stance in regard to the Swedish strategy to limit the spread of COVID-19, in American newspaper The Washington Post.
Continued governmental support measures for employment are needed and these must be costly. But there are more effective measures than the proposed reduction of employer contributions for young people, write IIES Professor Lars Calmfors and former IIES Graduate Student David Seim (now Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University) in one of Sweden's leading newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
IIES Professor Torsten Persson has been interviewed in Swedish daily SvD on the Swedish Government's spending and the new budget they recently presented in an attempt to kick start the economy following the Corona crisis.
Should funds to countries worst hit by the pandemic be in the form of loans or grants? IIES Professor Mats Persson discusses the pros and cons in an op-ed in Svenska Dagbladet.
It is said that there are as many opinions as there are economists. If they agree on anything, it is that the Swedish government should be careful spending. This is now contradicted by an almost unanimous band of economists urging Swedish Minister of Finance, Magdalena Andersson, to start pouring money over Swedish companies.
The new corona virus paralyzes large parts of society. What the cost will ultimately be is impossible to say, but IIES Professor Lars Calmfors draws parallels to the fateful crisis in the 90s, in an article in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
The conference organized by the IIES and SNS to celebrate Professor Lindbeck's recent 90th birthday recevied media attention in several news outlets, and was broadcast on Swedish TV, SVT.
According to IIES Professor John Hassler and Swedish physicist and astronaut Christer Fuglesang in an op-ed in Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, a plan B to reduce global warming should be prepared as a sufficiently broad international climate policy agreement may not be reached.
Following the release of the "SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2020: Swedish Policy for Global Climate", Chairman of the council, John Hassler, explains the suggestions put forward in the report to PJ Anders Linder at Studio Axess.
50% of Sweden's CO2 emissions come from 27 industrial plants. If the plants are equipped with a technology called CCS, the emissions could be captured and stored. IIES Professor John Hassler in Aftonbladet on the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to reduce emissions.
In an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter John Hassler, Harry Flam, Lars E.O. Svensson & Robert Boije argue that every economic-policy measure should show that the benefit exceeds the cost.
Harry Flam and John Hassler, together with colleagues from VTI, KTH and Örebro University, argue against high-speed railways in Sweden, in an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter.
