Anna Larsson Seim, Assistant Professor

Stockholm University Department of Economics SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden

+46-8-163865

Short presentation

Anna Larsson Seim obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockolm University in 2007. Her work is both theoretical and empirical and comprises studies on monetary and fiscal regimes, wage setting and macroeconomic performance. She is also working on various topics related to growth, development and institutions.

Research interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Political Economics

Current teaching

Working papers

"Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes" (with Stephen L. Parente), 2012. Revise and resubmit, European Economic Review.

"Earned Income Tax Credits, Unemployment Benefits and Wages: Empirical Evidence from Sweden" (with Helge Bennmarker and Lars Calmfors), 2013.

"Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites" (with Anders Akerman and Alireza Naghavi), 2013.

"The Global Arms Trade Network 1950-2007" (with Anders Akerman), 2012.

Selected publications

"Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in a Small Open Economy" (with Lars Calmfors), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115(1), 109-140, 2013.

"Testing the Impact of Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence on Labour Market Outcomes" (with Johnny Zetterberg), Oxford Economic Papers 2012; doi: 10.1093/oep/gps029.

"Fiscal Activism under Inflation Targeting and Non-atomistic Wage Setting", Economica, 79, 97-114, 2012.

"Wage Formation and the Swedish Labour Market Reforms 2007-2009" (with Helge Bennmarker and Lars Calmfors), Studier i Finanspolitik 2011/1, Background report to the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, 2011.

"On Labour Mobility and the Neutrality of Money in Unionised Economies", Economic Modelling, 28(1-2), 396-403, 2011.

"Aggregate and Regional Business Cycle Synchronisation in the Nordic Countries" (with Nevena Gaco and Henrik Sikström), SIEPS 2009:7, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Stockholm, 2009. Summary. Revised WP version.

"Comment on Stefan Niemann and Jürgen von Hagen: Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies: A Fresh Look at the Issue", Swedish Economic Policy Review, 15, 125-129, 2008.

Real Effects of Monetary Regimes, IIES Monograph Series No. 57, Institute for International Economic Studies, 2007. Press release.

"The Swedish Real Exchange Rate under Different Currency Regimes", Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 140(4), 706-727, 2004.

Selected publications in Swedish

"Enkla regler, svåra tider - behöver stabiliseringspolitiken förändras?" (with Martin Flodén, Morten O. Ravn and Anders Vredin), SNS Konjunkturrådsrapport 2012.

Recent debate articles and media

"Se över det kommunala balanskravet" (with SNS Konjunkturråd 2012), Dagens samhälle, 2012.

"Behåll överskottsmålet - och komplettera det" (with SNS Konjunkturråd 2012), Göteborgsposten, 2012.

"Riksbankens ansvar bör utökas" (with SNS Konjunkturråd 2012), SvD Brännpunkt, 2012.

"Riskabelt när staten snålar" (with SNS Konjunkturråd 2012), DI debatt, 2012.

"Borg sätter hård press på lönerna", Dagens industri, 2011.

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