Economics
About
Subject information
Economics is a social science that focuses on the behaviour of and interactions among economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics examines the behaviour of and interactions among agents (consumers, patients, households, voters, firms, etc.) in different institutional frameworks and studies how such institutions are or could be changed. Macroeconomics analyzes the entire economy and issues affecting it. Most research at Örebro University is policy-oriented empirical applied microeconomic analysis. The researchers work together with researchers in Statistics and collaborate with researchers in other social sciences and health sciences. The empirical analysis is often based on micro data from public registers and surveys.
Within the subject, there is a seminar series. For schedule, please see the following link:
https://www.oru.se/institutioner/handelshogskolan/forskning/seminarier/nationalekonomi/
For listing of publications and doctoral dissertations, see Publications in Economics.
For listing of Working Papers, see Working Papers.
Researchers
- Linda Andersson Järnberg
- Daniela Andrén
- Pär Hansson
- Mathias Herzing
- Lars Hultkrantz
- Gunnar Isacsson
- Dan Johansson
- Henrik Jordahl
- Patrik Karpaty
- Tamás Kiss
- Kamil Kladivko
- Daniel Knutsson
- Niclas Krüger
- Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
- Anders Kärnä
- Magnus Lodefalk
- Anders Lunander
- Aubrey Poon
- Elisabet Rutström
- Aili Tang
- Susanna Thede
- Elin Vimefall
- Pär Österholm
- Alexandra Allard, PhD student
- Erik Engberg, PhD student
- Daniel Lind, PhD student
- Bruno Mwenese, PhD student
- Oliwer Silfverberg, PhD student
- Niklas Wykman, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Child labor and education
- Digital Area for Networking Teachers and Educators (DANTE)
- Economic Analysis of Measures for Supporting Employment and Enhancing Quality of Life for Mentally Disabled (SEQL)
- Economic effects of local culture and sport events
- Economic evaluation of suicide prevention within the transportation sector
- Firm growth and institutional barriers to growth
- Global value chains and the costs of structural change
- Impact Evaluation of an Agricultural Sector Program
- Improving Macroeconomic Forecasts and Stabilisation Policies Using High-Frequency Data
- Is part-time sick-leave helping to return to work?
- Labour market effects of artificial intelligence: A study of knowledge-intensive business services
- Local Government Finance Data Analysis (LOGFIN)
- Local public sector investments
- Migration, integration and firms? globalization ? how does migration and integration into the workforce contribute to firms? globalization?
- Multi-unit common value auctions
- Municipality owned enterprises: Emergence and consequences
- Offshoring, inshoring and employment effects in Swedish firms
- Out-of-pocket payments in Swedish health care: how does it affect health care utilization?
- Priorities in health care
- Structural State Dependence and Welfare Participation in Sweden
- Support for foreign trade financing
- The Collaboration between Municipality and Social Enterprises: A Sustainable Platform for Solving Socioeconomic Problems
- The Effects and Cost-Effectiveness of Supported Employment for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
- The evolution of the Swedish tax system, 1862 and onwards
- The network of the Online Users of The Swedish Employer Employee Data (OUTSEED)
- The social cost of greenhouse gases
- Traffic safety and vehicle insurance
- Willingness to pay for road safety of bicyclists and pedestrians - public or private
- Working after the mandatory retirement age. An economics' perspective.
Completed projects
- Aid, public spending and development goals
- Effects of accident prevention
- Growth barriers in small and medium sized enterprises
- High-grow firms and knowledge spillovers
- Macro and financial econometrics after the financial crisis
- Servicification and internationalisation of manufacturing
- Tax Policy in Developing Countries
- The importance of family business
- Which firms employs the unemployed?