Anders Åkerman, Researcher

Stockholm University Department of Economics SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden

+46-8-162163

Short presentation

My focus is mainly on international trade, in particular the effect of trade on aggregate productivity and firm dynamics. I am, however, also working on projects relating to arms trade, the economy of China and climate change and trade.

Research interests

  • Primary field: International Trade
  • Secondary fields: International Macroeconomics, Applied Microeconomics, Microeconometrics and the Economics of China
  • Teaching fields: International Trade, Econometrics and International Macroeconomics

Working papers

"Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites" (with Anna Larsson and Alireza Naghavi)

"Service Outsourcing and Specialisation: A Theory on Endogeneous Task Scope" (Research Papers in Economics, Department of Economics, Stockholm University 2010:14, with Loriane Py)

"A Theory on the Role of Wholesalers in International Trade based on Economies of Scope" (Research Papers in Economics, Department of Economics, Stockholm University 2010:1)

"The Global Arms Trade Network 1950-2007" (Research Papers in Economics, Department of Economics, Stockholm University 2010:2, with Anna Larsson). Press release for the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society 2011.

"The Effect of Intra-Industry Trade on Aggregate Productivity: Is there a Bridge between Theory and Data in Oresund?"

"Country Size, Productivity and Trade Share Convergence: An analysis of heterogenous firms and country size dependent beachhead costs" (CEPR Discussion Paper 6545, with Rikard Forslid)

"Industry Location in Export Processing Zones: Segregation instead of Agglomeration?"

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