Publications
The Department of Economics prioritises high-quality research and publishing in leading peer-reviewed journals. Most of our research output first appears in the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics series. Published journal articles, working papers and PhD theses are listed through the links on this page. Book chapters, forthcoming journal articles are often listed on the personal web pages.
Forthcoming and Recent Publications (in selection)
Jesper Bojeryd, Björn Tyrefors, Roine Vestman & Danny Kessel. (2025). The Housing Wealth Effect: Quasi-Experimental Evidence. Forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics.
Sebastian Fehrler, Anna Hochleitner & Moritz Janas. (2025). Too Good to be True - Individual and Collective Decision-Making with Misleading Signals. Forthcoming in Management Science.
Kenneth T. Gillingham, Lint Barrage, Sarah Armitage, Dallas Burtaw, Jonathan Colmer, Laure de Preux, Jonathan Hawkings-Pierot, Charles A. Holt, Valerie J. Karplus, Åsa Löfgren, Ralf Martin, Nathan Miller, Mirabelle Muûls, Matthew Osborne, Edson Severini, William Shobe, Gretchen Sileo, Vladimir Smirnyagin, Thomas Stoerk, Aleh Tsyvinski, Katherine Wagner, Ulrich Wagner & Xi Wu. (2025). New Frontiers In Research on Industrial Decorbonization. Science.
Mike Burkart, Samuel Lee & Henrik Petri. (2025). The Structure of Leveraged Buyouts and the Free-Rider Problem. Review of Financial Studies.
Kyra Hanemaaijer, Nadine Ketel & Olivier Marie. (2024). Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions. American Economic Review: Insights.
Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, Farah Said, David Deming & Sonia R. Bhalotra. (2024). How Do You Find a Good Manager?. The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson, Mikael Lindahl & Ariel Pihl. (2022). Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex-Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education. Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Ronja Helénsdotter. (2025). Surviving Childhood: Effects of Removing a Child From Home. Review of Economic Studies.
Enzo Brox, Moritz Janas, Baiba Renerte. (2025). Social Ties and Preferences for Competition. Experimental Economics.
Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, Lutz Sager. (2025). The Economics of Inequality and the Environment. Journal of Economic Literature.
Pauline Rossi & Yun Xiao. (2025). Left Over or Opting Out? Squeeze, Mismatch and Surplus in Chinese Marriage Markets. Journal of Development Economics.
Adrian Poignant. (2025). Electricity and Female Employment: Evidence from Tajikistan’s Winter Energy Crisis. Journal of Development Economics.
Travers B. Child, Austin L. Wright & Yun Xiao. (2023). Aid Fragmentation and Corruption. The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut, Cristian-Pop Eleches & Miguel Urquiola. (2024). Self-, Peer- and Teacher Perceptions under School Tracking. Review of Economics and Statistics.
Martin Karlsson, Yulong Wang & Nicolas R. Ziebarth. (2023). Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling Tails of Health Expenditure Distributions. Journal of Health Economics.
Claes Ek & Magnus Söderberg. (2024). Norm-Based Feedback on Household Waste: Large-Scale Field Experiments in two Swedish Municipalities. Journal of Public Economics.
Fredrik Carlsson, Claes Ek & Andreas Lange. (2024). One Bad Apple Spoils the Barrel? Public Good Provision under Threshold Uncertainty. Experimental Economics.
Francisco Alpizar, Fredrik Carlsson & Gracia Lanza. (2024). On the Perils of Environmentally Friendly Alternatives. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme & Emilia Simeonova. (2025). Decomposing the Parental Education Gradient in Health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees. Journal of Labor Economics.
Sanna Bergvall. (2024). Women's Economic Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of Public Economics.
Heather Congdon Fors, Ann-Sofie Isaksson & Annika Lindskog. (2024). Changing Local Customs: The Long Run Impacts of Christian Missions on Female Genital Cutting in Africa. Journal of Development Economics.
Journal Articles and Books
The primary outlet for research is international peer-reviewed journals in economics. All new publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, are included in the University publications' list. Here you may also find published books and book chapters.
Working Papers
New research from the Department of Economics is first published in the Working Papers in Economics series. All papers are available at Swopec, Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics.
Doctoral Theses
The doctoral theses are available as PDF:s at Gupea, Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive.