[Swedish] Black Friday handlar om prisdiskriminering, inte främst om att boosta försäljning, i motsats till gängse uppfattning. Det är en shoppinghögtid som gynnar de fattiga på bekostnad av de rika då det är ett sätt för företag att ta olika pris av olika konsumentgrupper. De fattiga är de som gynnas, tack vare att de rika…
[For english, scroll down] I morgondagens SvD skriver Jacob Lundberg och jag om våra slutsatser från den forskningsöversikt som vi skrev i under sommaren då jag jobbade som forskningsassistent på Ratio forskningsinstitut. Debattartikeln kan också läsas på nätet från och med ikväll (länk). Forskningsöversikten publicerades idag som ett working paper för Ratio (länk). Vi skrev…
[English below] Under våren skrev jag min kandidatuppsats i nationalekonomi vid handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs Universitet. I och med detta blev jag klar med min ekonomie kandidat. Den som är intresserad av att läsa uppsatsen så finns den tillgänglig gratis på nätet (länk). Titeln på detta inlägg avslöjar frågeställningen för uppsatsen, och jag tänkte lite kort…
A while back, I wrote a text explaining why trade wars isn’t a game of winning or loosing but rather, that both sides of such a conflict are more or less losers. It’s published in swedish on the web magasine Smedjan owned by the think tank Timbro, linked here. One of the key examples I…
I’m in the middle of writing my bachelor thesis in economics right now and so far it’s been a roller coaster and we’ve had to change subject multiple times now, which is a bit stressful to say the least. Since I’ve spent a lot of time reading research and thinking about what could be potentially…
Economics is the study of decision making by individuals, using mathematical models and empirical methods. One of the big problems of economics (and of all social sciences) is that we cannot conduct randomized experiments the same way as in natural sciences. Imagine a political science researcher proposing that for the next term in office in…
A couple of months ago, I started an instagram profile about books on economics that I’ve read for anyone looking for suggestions. It’s a new year and a will continue to update every week. I’ve added the stream here at the blog and if you want to see more.
In this blog post I present an economic perspective on what magic is in the Harry Potter saga and how the principles of economics can be used to analyse this society. Since the big difference between wizards and muggles is the use of magic it seems to appropriate to write a post about what magic…
In this post I analyze the political system of the wizarding world of Harry Potter after reading the first three books in the saga. We don’t know much about the political system in the magical society because it’s not explicitly described. But we can from the story, inferring from the behaviour of government agencies and…
As the saying goes, smiling is contagious. People around us benefit from us smiling. Sounds like a great thing right? But an economist might for this very reason make the claim that we don’t smile enough. In economics, we are interested in how individuals make choices, and we assume that they act in their self…