The economics of Entrepreneurship, Family business, Globalization and Institutions (EFGI)
About this group
Group information
- We do research on entrepreneurship, family business, globalisation (cross border flows of goods, services, capital and people) and institutions (“the rules of the game”).
- We focus on what drives and hinders firm growth, and the effects on employment and economic growth.
- Our research is societally important and pertinent for decision makers, government agencies, business and civil society.
- We mostly do empirical research. Often we employ econometric method to analyse large de-identified longitudinal linked employer-employee data.
- The research group has a large national and international network, including, for instance, Statistics Sweden, The Swedish International Aid Agency (SIDA), The Swedish National Board of Trade, The Swedish Agency for Growth Analysis, OECD, World Trade Organisation, the World Bank and universities and research institutes.
- The research group also hosts the AI-Econ Lab for research on the labour market implications of artificial intelligence.
The group is led by Professor Dan Johansson and associate professor Magnus Lodefalk.
The group meets biweekly for brown-bag seminars (Wednesdays 12.15-13.00).
Researchers
- Fredrik Andersson
- Linda Andersson Järnberg
- Daniela Andrén
- Pär Hansson
- Andreas Hatzigeorgiou
- Lars Hultkrantz
- Dan Johansson
- Patrik Karpaty
- Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
- Anders Kärnä
- Magnus Lodefalk
- Andreas Poldahl
- Sofia Tano
- Erik Engberg, PhD student
- Elina Fergin, PhD student
- Niklas Wykman, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Child labor and education
- Firm growth and institutional barriers to growth
- Global value chains and the costs of structural change
- Impact Evaluation of an Agricultural Sector Program
- Labour market effects of artificial intelligence: A study of knowledge-intensive business services
- Migration, integration and firms? globalization ? how does migration and integration into the workforce contribute to firms? globalization?
- Support for foreign trade financing
- The evolution of the Swedish tax system, 1862 and onwards
- The network of the Online Users of The Swedish Employer Employee Data (OUTSEED)
- Working after the mandatory retirement age. An economics' perspective.
Completed projects
- Aid, public spending and development goals
- Growth barriers in small and medium sized enterprises
- High-grow firms and knowledge spillovers
- Jean Monnet TIISA Network (The Trade and Investment in Services Associates Network)
- Municipality owned enterprises: Emergence and consequences
- Offshoring, inshoring and employment effects in Swedish firms
- Servicification and internationalisation of manufacturing
- Tax Policy in Developing Countries
- The importance of family business
- Which firms employs the unemployed?
