Jesper Roine

Most recent papers

• "A More Equal Europe: A Prerequisite or a Consequence of Increased Federalism?",

  Chapter in “The EU between Federal Union and Flexible Integration” (eds., Engelbrekt, A.B., Ekman, P., Michalski, A., Oxelheim, L. (eds). 2023 (also available in Swedish).

• "Unemployment Inequality in the Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden",

  Covid Economics. Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 2021, Issue 83.  (with Pamela Campa and Svante Strömberg)

• "Inherited wealth over the path of development: Sweden, 1810–2016",

  Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 18(3), p. 1123-1157, 2020, (with H. Ohlsson and D. Waldenström)

  VoxEU article here

Publications in English

• "A More Equal Europe: A Prerequisite or a Consequence of Increased Federalism?",

  Chapter in “The EU between Federal Union and Flexible Integration” (eds., Engelbrekt, A.B., Ekman, P., Michalski, A., Oxelheim, L. (eds). 2023 (also available in Swedish).

• "Unemployment Inequality in the Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden",

  Covid Economics. Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 2021, Issue 83.  (with Pamela Campa and Svante Strömberg)

• "Inherited wealth over the path of development: Sweden, 1810–2016",

  Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 18(3), p. 1123-1157, 2020, (with H. Ohlsson and D. Waldenström)

  VoxEU article here

• "Women in Top Incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1971–2017",

  Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 181, 104115, 2020, (with Anne Boschini and Kristin Gunnarsson).

   

• "Women in the top of the income distribution – What can we learn from LIS-data?",

  Italian Economic Journal, Vol. 6(1): p. 63-107, 2020 (with R. Bobilev and A. Boschini).

• "Inequality in the Nordic countries",

  (with L, Calmfors) in Introduction to Nordic Economic Policy Review 2018: Increasing Inequality in the Nordics, No. 2018:519, p.6-17, 2018.

  Interested in finding out more? See Introduction to Nordic Economic Policy Review 2018: Increasing Inequality in the Nordics, edited by Jesper Roine and Lars Calmfors.

• "Whither the Nordic Welfare Model?",

  (with T.Andersen), introduction to Nordic Economic Policy Review 2016: Whither the Nordic Welfare Model?, No. 2016:503, p.7-19, 2016.

  Interested in finding out more? See Nordic Economic Policy Review 2016: Whither the Nordic Welfare Model? edited by Jesper Roine and Torben M. Andersen.

• "Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth",

  Chapter in Atkinson, A.B., Bourguignon, F. (Eds.), Handbook of Income Distribution, vol. 2A,
  North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2015. (with D. Waldenström)

• "The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal",

  “World Development” Vol. 43, pp. 19–41, 2013. (with A. Boschini, and Jan Pettersson)

• "Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: Capitalist Dynasties in the Land of Equal Opportunity?",

  Journal of Public Economics, 96(5–6), 474–484, 2012, (with A Björklund, and D. Waldenström)

• "On the Role of Capital Gains in Swedish Income Inequality",

  (with D. Waldenström) Review of Income and Wealth, 58(3):569-587, 2012.

• "Common Trends and Shocks to Top Incomes: A Structural Breaks Approach",

  (with D. Waldenström) Review of Economics and Statistics 93(3), 832-846, 2011

• "Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century",

  (with D. Waldenström) in Atkinson, A.B., and Piketty, T. (eds.), Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century: Volume II, A Global Perspective, Oxford University Press. 2010.

• "The long-run determinants of inequality: What can we learn from top income data?",

  Journal of Public Economics 93(7-8), 974-988, 2009 (with J. Vlachos and D. Waldenström).

• "Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006",

  Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 111(1): 151-187, 2009, (with D. Waldenström).

• "On the possibility of political change: Outcomes in between local and global equilibria",

  (with C. Olovsson).

• "The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society: Sweden, 1903–2004",

  Journal of Public Economics, Volume 9(1-2), 366-387, 2008, (with D. Waldenström).

• "Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings",

  in Davies, James B. (ed.), Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective, Oxford University Press, (with H. Ohlsson and D. Waldenström), 2008. Chinese translation published in Comparative Studies, No 33.

• "The Constitutional Channels of the Resource Curse",

  in Proceedings from “Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation”, May 27-29, 2008, Uppsala. Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, (with A. Boschini and J. Pettersson).

• "An Economic Sociological look at Economics",

  in Economic Sociology – The European Newsletter Vol. 9, No. 2, March 2008, p. 5-15, (with P. Aspers, S. Kohl, and P. Wichardt).

• "Resource curse or not: A question of appropriability",

  Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 109(3): 593-617, September 2007 (with A. Boschini and J. Pettersson).

• "Promoting Entrepreneurship in the Welfare State",

  in Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, edited by D. B. Audretsch, I. Grillo and A. R. Thurik. E. Elgar, 2007 (with M. Henrekson).

• "Downsian competition when no policy is unbeatable",

  International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 34(2), 273-284, 2006.

• "The political economics of not paying taxes",

  Public Choice, Volume 126(1-2), 107-134, 2006.

• "Unbundling the resource curse",

  (with A. Boschini and J. Pettersson).

• "Learning to Lose a Leg: Casualties of PhD Economics Training in Stockholm",

  Econ Journal Watch, vol.1(2) 2004 (joint with A. Boschini, M. Lindquist and J. Pettersson).

• "Voting over tax schedules in the presence of tax avoidance"

Publications in Swedish

• "Globalisering och inkomstfördelning",

  (Globalization and Income distribution) Report for the Swedsih Globalization Council, September 2008 (with D. Waldenström).

• "Toppinkomsternas utveckling i Sverige 1903-2004",

  (The development of top incomes in Sweden 1903-2004) , Ekonomisk Debatt, (The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), Vol. 34, No. 8, 2006 (with D. Waldenström).

• "Vem skall äga universitetens uppfinningar?",

  (Who should own university research?) Ekonomisk Debatt, (The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), Vol. 32, No. 3, 2004.

• "Framtidens nationalekonomer: Vilka är deras incitament till 'tvåbenhet'?",

  (The future economists: Which are their incentives?) Ekonomisk Debatt, (The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), Vol. 30, No. 2, 2002, joint with Anne Boschini, Matthew Lindquist and Jan Pettersson.

• "Kollektivt beslutsfattande",

  (Collective decision making), chapter in Tillämpad Mikroekonomi, (Applied Microeconomics), eds. M. Dufwenberg et al., Studentlitteratur:Lund, 2000, (joint with H. Svaleryd).

• "Framåtblickande beteende i välfärdsstaten",

  (Forward looking behavior in the Welfare State) Ekonomisk debatt (The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), Vol. 25, No. 8, 1997. ​