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Research area: International economics. Special interest in the effects of economic integration on trade and foreign direct investment

Current research projects:
Firms Internationalization, market structure and tax competition, financed by Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Foundation

European integration and taxes: testing new economic geography, financed by the Institute for European Policy Studies

Monographs and Articles:

-  Sverige och EU, 2009, in Marknad och Politik, 8th edition, eds. L. Hultkrantz and H. Söderström (with Joakim Gullstrand)

 -Integration and the Structure of Public Spending, 2008, Comparative Political Studies, 41(7): 1001-1027 (with Åsa Hansson)

- The European Union and Developing Countries: Trade, Aid and Growth in an Integrated World, 2007, eds. Y. Bourdet, J. Gullstrand and K. Olofsdotter, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

- Trade and Specialisation: Changing Patterns in the 1990s?, 2007, in The European Union and Developing Countries: Trade, Aid and Growth in an Integrated World, eds. Y. Bourdet, J. Gullstrand and K. Olofsdotter, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (with Joakim Gullstrand)

-   Comment on: Tax Competition and Agglomeration: The Main Effects and Implication for Empirical Study, 2005, Swedish Economic Policy Review, 12: 139-141

-    Is China an Optimum Currency Area?, 2005, Journal of Asian Economics, 16(4): 612-634 (with H. Byström and L. Söderström)

-  Kan den Nationella Välfärdsstaten Överleva i ett Enat Europa", 2004, in EU, Skatterna och Välfärden by S. Gustavsson, L. Oxelheim & N. Wahl, Europaperspektiv 2004 (with Å. Hansson)

-    Euron och Öresund, 2003, Öresundsinstituttet (with A. Olshov)

-   Market Structure and Integration – Essays on Trade, Specialisation and Foreign Direct Investment, 1999, Ph.D Dissertation, Lund Economic Studies no. 85, Lund University

-      Economic Integration, Market Size and the Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalisation, 1998, Weltwirtschafliches Archiv, 134(2): 302-319 (with J. Torstensson)

-      Foreign Direct Investment, Country Capabilities and Economic Growth, 1998,Weltwirtschafliches Archiv, 134(3): 534-547

-  Essays in Trade, Growth and Welfare, 1997, Licentiate Dissertation, Lund University

Working papers:

-      Tax Differences and Foreign Direct Investment in the EU27, 2010, Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics, 2010, (with Å. Hansson)

-  Labor taxes and FDI Decisions in an Enlarged European Union, 2010, Lund University (with Å. Hansson)

-  Sector Specific FDI: The Impact of Corporate Taxes and Agglomeration Forces, 2010, Lund University (with Å. Hansson)

-  Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: Tax Competition and Agglomeration Economies”,  2009, Lund University, (with Å. Hansson)

-      Integration and Tax Competition: An Empirical Study of OECD Countries, 2005, Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics, 2005:4 (with Å. Hansson)

-   The Declining Importance of Scale Economies, 2003, Lund  University

Work in progress:

- Markups and Firm-Product Price Variation Across Export Destinations (with J. Gullstrand and S. Thede)

- Offshoring, Exporting and FDI: Explaining the Firm Choice of International Linkages (with J. Gullstrand and S. Thede)