Research

Publications

1. Geographic Price Granularity and Investments in Wind Power: Evidence From a Swedish Market Splitting Reform

Energy Economics, Vol. 113, 2022 [Ungated PDF


2. Gender and Climate Action

With Niklas Elert

Population and Environment, Vol 43, 2022 [Ungated PDF


3. Market Power and Joint Ownership: Evidence from Nuclear Plants in Sweden

    Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 69, 2021 [Ungated PDF

   Media coverage: Expressen (article by Swedish economist John Hassler)


4. Cournot Competition in Wholesale Electricity Markets: The Nordic Power Exchange, Nord Pool 

    With Thomas Tangerås

    International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 68, 2020. [Ungated PDF


5. Effects of Privatization on Price and Labor Efficiency: The Swedish Electricity Distribution Sector

    The Energy Journal, Vol. 41, Issue 2, 2020. [Ungated PDF]  

    Media coverage: Radio Sweden (interview), SvD, DN. About 25 smaller newspapers also cited the original press release from TT.

                                         Effekter av privatiseringar på pris och arbetskostnad i den svenska eldistributionssektorn (Swedish summary 

                                         written by me in Ekonomisk Debatt)


6. Price Mimicking under Cost-of-Service Regulation: The Swedish Water Sector

    Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 52, Issue 3, 2017. [Ungated PDF]

    Media coverage: Bötfäll kommuner som inte redovisar vattenkostnader (op-ed written by me in Dagens Samhälle)

                                         Consumer awareness as a complement to regulation (summary of main results written by me in IFN Newsletter)


Working Papers

Wind Power Approval, Decentralization, and NIMBYism: Evidence from the Swedish Greens

IFN Working Paper Series, No. 1464, 2023.

Due to a number of recently raised methodological issues, this paper is currently being revised. The link above goes to the first version of the paper.

Here is a presentation with preliminary results using new data.


Wind Power and the Cost of Local Compensation: A Swedish Revenue Sharing Policy Simulation

IFN Working Paper Series, No. 1467, 2023. R&R, Energy Economics


Work in Progress

Geographic Proximity to Politicians and Voter Choice in a Decentralized Representative Democracy: Evidence from Sweden

With Özge Öner