Lars Calmfors

Engelska artiklar

  • Pattern bargaining as a means to coordinte wages in the Nordic countries, preliminär version för Nordic Economic Policy Review 2025. Link.
  • Nordic Economic Policy during and beyond the Pandemic (with Nora Sánchez Gassen), in Calmfors, L. and Sánchez Gassen, N. (eds.), Economic Policy beyond the Pandemic in the Nordic Countries, Nordregio 2024. Link.
  • Financial Regulation and Macroeconomic Stability in the Nordics (with Peter Englund), Nordic Economic Policy Review 2020. Link.
  • The Case for Numerical Employment Policy Targets, VoxEU, 28 September 2020. Link.
  • Assar Lindbeck: 1930-2020, VoxEU, 8 September 2020. Link.
  • Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets: Background, Summary and Policy Conclusion (with Nora Sánchez Gassen), in Calmfors, L. and Sánchez Gassen, N. (eds.), Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets, Nordic Council of Ministers 2019. Download.
  • Climate Policies in the Nordics (with John Hassler), Nordic Economic Policy Review 2019. Download.
  • Increasing Income Inequality in the Nordics – Introduction (with Jesper Roine), NordicEconomic Policy Review 2018. Download.
  • The Duality of the Swedish Labour Market (with Petter Danielsson, Ann-Sofie Kolm, Per Skedinger and Toumas Pekkarinen), Summary of the 2017 Report by the Swedish Labour Policy Council, Stockholm. Download.
  • Time for Larger Wage Dispersion (with Petter Danielsson, Ann-Sofie Kolm, Per Skedinger and Toumas Pekkarinen), Summary of the 2016 Report by the Swedish Labour Policy Council, Stockholm. Download.
  • The Swedish Macroeconomic Framework, in Pierre, J. (ed.). The Handbook on Swedish Politics, Oxford University Press 2015. Download.
  • The Roles of Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Councils and Fiscal Union in EU Integration, in Badinger, H. and Nitsch, V.(eds.). Handbook in the Economics of European Integration, Routledge 2015. Download.
  • Earned  Income Tax Credits, Unemployment Benefits and Wages: Empirical Evidence from Sweden (with Helge Bennmarker and Anna Seim), IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014 3:54. Download.
  • How well is the Nordic model doing? Recent performance and future challenges,in The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform, Nordic Council of Ministers 2014. Download.
  • Sweden – Watchdog with a Broad Remit, in Kopits, G. (ed.), Restoring Public Debt Sustainability: the Role of Independent Fiscal Institutions, Oxford University Press 2013. Download. Download.
  • Why Do People Dislike Low-Wage Trade Competition with Posted Workers in the Service Sector? (with Girts Dimdins, Marie Gustafsson Sendén, Henry Montgomery and Ulrika Stavlöt), Journal of Socio-Economics 47, December 2013. Download.
  • Sweden – From Macroeconomic Failure to Macroeconomic Success,in Maguire, M. and Wilson, G. (eds.), Business and Government, Volume IV: Challenges and Prospects, Routledge 2013. Download.
  • Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in a Small Open Economy (with Anna Larsson Seim), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2013, Vol. 115, No. 1. Also IIES Seminar Paper No. 760, August 2009, and CESifo Working Paper no. 3510, July 2011. Download.
  • Can the Eurozone Develop into a Well-Functioning Fiscal Union?, CESifo Forum 2012:1, Munich. Download.
  • What Should Fiscal Councils Do? (with Simon Wren-Lewis), Economic Policy 27, October 2011. Reprinted in Wyplosz, C. (ed.), Thirty Years of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press 2015. Earlier version: CESifo Working Paper No. 3382 and IIES Seminar Paper No. 768. Download 1. Download 2.
  • The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, Staatsschuldenausschuss, Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 2011/1, Journal of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, also IIES Seminar Paper No. 769. Download.
  • What Are Fiscal Councils, and What Do They Do? (with Simon Wren-Lewis), Vox 21 April 2011. Download.
  • The Role of Research and Researchers in Economic Policy-Making: Some Reflections Based on Personal Experiences (Tutkimuksen ja tutkijoiden rooli talouspolitiikassa: kokemuksiini perustuvaa pohdintaa), Finnish Economic Journal (Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja)2009/1. Download.
  • Comment on Charles Wyplosz: Fiscal Policy Councils – Unlovable or Just Unloved?, Swedish Economic Policy Review 2007:14. Download.
  • The Revised Stability and Growth Pact – A Critical Assessment, Journal for Money and Banking of the Bank Association of Slovenia, November 2006. Download.
  • Nominal Wage Flexibility, Wage Indexation, and Monetary Union (with Åsa Johansson), Economic Journal, 2006:116. Download.
  • The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies in Sweden: What Is the Evidence? (with Anders Forslund and Maria Hemström), in J. Agell, M.J. Keen and A.J. Weichenreider (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2004. Download.
  • Activation versus Other Employment Polices – Lessons for Germany, CESifo Forum, 2/2004. Download.
  • Unemployment Benefits, Contract Length and Nominal Wage Flexibility (with Åsa Johansson), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2004:1. Download.
  • Fiscal Policy to Stabilise the Domestic Economy in the EMU: What Can We Learn from Monetary Policy?, CESifo Economic Studies 2003:3. Download.
  • Nominal Wage Flexibility and Fiscal Policy – How Much Can They Reduce Macroeconomic Variability in the EMU?, Submissions on EMU from Leading Academics, UK Membership of the Single Currency: An Assessment of the Five Economic Tests, HM Treasury, London 2003. Download.
  • How to Reform Europe’s Fiscal Policy Framework (with Giancarlo Corsetti), World Economics Journal, 2003:1. Download.
  • Does Active Labour Market Policy Work? Lessons from the Swedish Experiences (with Anders Forslund and Maria Hemström), Swedish Economic Policy Review 2001:2. Also IIES Seminar Paper No. 700, IFAU Working Paper No. 2002:4 and CESifo Working Paper No. 675. 
  • Macroeconomic Policy Coordination in the EU: How Far Should It Go? Swedish Economic Policy Review 2001:1. 
  • Wages and Wage-Bargaining Institutions in the EMU – A Survey of the Issues, Empirica 2001:28. Also published in R. Franzese, P. Mooslechner, and M. Schürz (eds.), Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities: Monetary Policy and Wage-Bargaining Institutions in EMU, Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004. Also IIES Seminar Paper No. 690 and CESifo Working Paper No. 520. Download.
  • Explaining Wage Developments (with Eva Uddén Sonnegård), Economic Review 2001:4, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm. Download.
  • The Future of Collective Bargaining in Europe (with Alison Booth, Michael Burda, Daniele Checchi, Robin Naylor, and Jelle Visser) in T. Boeri, A. Brugiavini, and L. Calmfors (eds.), The Role of Unions in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press 2001.
  • Unemployment, Labour-Market Reform and Monetary Union, Journal of Labor Economics, 2001 Vol. 19, No. 2. In pdf-format.
  • Economic Policy and Growth – An Introduction (with Mats Persson), Swedish Economic Policy Review 2000:1. Download.
  • Unemployment and Economic Growth – A Partial Survey (with Bertil Holmlund), Swedish Economic Policy Review 2000:1. Download.
  • The Political Economy of Labour-Market Reform (with Per Skedinger), Swedish Economic Policy Review No 2, 1998.
  • Macroeconomic Policy, Wage Setting and Employment – What Difference Does the EMU Make? Oxford Review of Economic Policy 1998:3.
  • The EMU and Sweden – An Introduction (together with Harry Flam), Swedish Economic Policy Review 1997:2.
  • Comment to K. Grier: Government, Unions and Economic Growth, in Bergström, V., (ed.), FIEF Studies in Labor Markets and Economic Policy, ClarendonPress Oxford 1997.
  • The Consequences of the Monetary Union – An Introduction, Swedish Economic Policy Review, No 1, 1997.
  • Moral Hazard in the Welfare State. Comment on L. Söderström, in Giersch, H. (ed.), Reforming the Welfare State, Springer Verlag 1997.
  • Fiscal Policy when Monetary Policy Is Tied to the Mast (with Jonas Agell and Gunnar Jonsson), European Economic Review, Vol. 40, 1996.
  • Comment on Bertil Holmlund and Ann-Sofie Kolm: Progressive Taxation, Wage Setting and Unemployment – Theory and Swedish Evidence, Swedish Economic Policy Review, No. 2, 1995.
  • What Can We Expect from Active Labour Market Policy? Konjunkturpolitik, No. 43, 1995.
  • Will High Unemployment in Sweden Become Persistent? Swedish Economic Policy Review, No. 1, 1995.
  • Labour Market Policy and Unemployment, European Economic Review, Vol. 39, 1995.
  • Does Active Labour Market Policy Increase Employment? Theoretical Considerations and Some Empirical Evidence from Sweden (with Per Skedinger), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No. 7, 1995.
  • Macroeconomic Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in a Union Wage-setting Model (with Harald Lang), Economic Journal, Vol. 105, May 1995.
  • What Can Sweden Learn from the European Unemployment Experiences? Swedish Economic Policy Review, No. 1-2, 1994.
  • Active Labour Market Policy and Unemployment – A Framework for the Analysis of Crucial Design Features, OECD Economic Studies, No. 22, Spring 1994. Reprinted in P. N. Junankar (ed.), The Economics of Unemployment, Vol. IV, Edward Elgar 2000.
  • Centralisation of Wage Bargaining and Macroeconomic Performance – A Survey, OECD Economic Studies, No. 21, Winter 1993.
  • Comment to K.O. Moene, M. Wallerstein and M. Hoel: Bargaining Structure and Economic Performance, in Flanagan, R.J., Moene, K.O. and M. Wallerstein (eds)., Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance, Oxford University Press 1993.
  • Lessons from the Macroeconomic Experience of Sweden, European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 9, 1993.
  • Real Wage Determination and Labor Market Policies: The Swedish Experience (with Anders Forslund), Economic Journal, Vol. 101, September 1991.
  • Real Wage Adjustment and Employment Policies in the Nordic Countries (with Ragnar Nymoen), Economic Policy 11, 1990.
  • Comment to T. Andersen: Macroeconomic Strategies Towards Internal and External Balance in the Nordic Countries, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 92, 1990:2.
  • Comment to R. Jackman: Wage Formation in the Nordic Countries Viewed from an International Perspective, in Calmfors, L. (ed.), Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries, SNS and Oxford University Press 1990.
  • Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries: A Summary, in Calmfors, L. (ed)., Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries, SNS and Oxford University Press,1990.
  • Wage Formation in Sweden (with Anders Forslund), in Calmfors, L. (ed.), Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries, SNS and Oxford University Press 1990.
  • Comment to S. Bentolila and O. Blanchard: Spanish Unemployment, Economic Policy 1990:1.
  • Work Sharing, Employment and Shiftwork (with Michael Hoel), Oxford Economic Papers 41, 1989.
  • Comment to B. Holmlund: Wages and Unemployment in Unionized Economies: Theory and Evidence, in Holmlund, B., Löfgren, K. and V. Bergström (eds.), Trade Unions, Employment and Unemployment Duration, Oxford University Press 1989.
  • Inflation and Unemployment in Sweden, Europe and the United States, in K. Goldmann, /ed.), International Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University 1988.
  • Wage Formation in the Nordic Countries, Nordiska ekonomiska forskningsrådets årsbok 1988.
  • Comment to G. Alogoskoufis and A. Manning: On the Persistence of Unemployment, Economic Policy 7, 1988.
  • Work Sharing and Overtime (with Michael Hoel), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1, 1988.
  • Bargaining Structure, Corporatism and Macroeconomic Performance (with John Driffill), Economic Policy 6, 1988. Reprinted in P. N. Junankar (ed.), The Economics of Unemployment, Vol. III, Edward Elgar 2000 and in C. Wyplosz (ed.), , Thirty Years of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press 2015.
  • Comment to J. Sachs: High Unemployment in Europe: Diagnosis and Policy Implications, in C.-H. Siven (ed.), European Unemployment, Timbro 1987.
  • Comment to J. Drèze: Work Sharing: Why? How? How Not? in R. Layard and L. Calmfors (eds.), The Fight Against Unemployment – Macroeconomic Papers from CEPS, MIT Press 1987.
  • European Unemployment and the Rigidities in the Labour Market – an Introduction, in R. Layard and L. Calmfors (eds)., The Fight Against Unemployment – Macroeconomic Papers from CEPS, MIT Press 1987.
  • Comment to R. Flanagan: Efficiency and Equality in Swedish Labour Markets, in B. Bosworth and A. Rivlin (eds.), The Swedish Economy, Brookings Institution 1987.
  • Employment Policies and Centralized Wage Setting (with Henrik Horn), Economica, August 1986.
  • Work Sharing, Employment and Wages, European Economic Review, April 1985.
  • The Roles of Stabilization Policy and Wage Setting for Macroeconomic Stability – the Experience of Economies with Centralized Bargaining, Kyklos, Fasc. 3, 1985.
  • Trade Unions, Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Stability – an Introduction, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1985:2.
  • Classical Unemployment, Accommodation Policies and the Adjustment of Real Wages (with Henrik Horn), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1985:2.
  • Exchange Controls Can Be Abolished, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Quarterly Review 1985:4.
  • Stabilization Policy and Wage Formation in Economies with Strong Trade Unions, in M. Emerson (ed)., Europe’s Stagflation, Oxford University Press 1984.
  • Sweden and Finland – a Comparison of Stabilization Policy Strategies, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Quarterly Review 1984:4.
  • Output, Inflation and the Terms of Trade in a Small Open Economy, Kyklos, Fasc.1, 1983.
  • Employment Policies, Wage Formation and Trade Union Behaviour in a Small Open Economy, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1982:2. Reprinted in Bénassy, J.-P. (ed.), Macroeconomics and Imperfect Competition, Edward Elgar 1995.
  • Cost Adjustment in Smaller OECD Countries, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Quarterly Review 1982:4.
  • Long-run Effects of Short-run Stabilization Policy – an Introduction, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1982:2.
  • Wage Indexation, the Scandinavian Model and Macroeconomic Stability in the Open Economy (with Staffan Viotti), Oxford Economic Papers 1982:3.
  • Exchange Controls, Capital Movements and Stabilization Policy, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Quarterly Review 1980:3-4.
  • Domestic and Foreign Price Influences – a Disaggregated Study of Sweden (with Jan Herin), in Inflation and Employment in Open Economies, A. Lindbeck (ed.), North-Holland 1979.
  • Real Wages, Inflation and Unemployment in the Open Economy, in Inflation and Employment in Open Economies, A. Lindbeck (ed.), North-Holland 1979.
  • Inflation in Sweden, in Worldwide Inflation – Theory and Recent Experience, Krause, L.B. and W.S. Salant (eds.), Brookings Institution 1977.
  • Economic Restrictions on Soviet Defence Expenditure – a Model Approach (with Jan Rylander) in The Soviet Economy in a New Perspective, a compendium of papers submitted to the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, October 1976.