Rikard Forslid, Professor

Stockholm University Department of Economics SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden

+46-8-163096

Research interests

  • International trade
  • Economic growth
  • Economic geography


Working papers

"On the Optimal Production Capacity for Influenza Vaccine, (with M. Herzing), CEPR Discussion papers, no.6808, 2008.

"Country Size, Productivity and Trade Share Convergence: An Analysis of Heterogenous Firms and Country size Deoendent Beachhead costs", (with A. Akerman) Stockholm University, Working Papers in Economics, 2007:14.

"Can we Trust Monopolistic Firms as Suppliers of Vaccine for the Avian Influenza?", Stockholm University, Working Papers in Economics, 2005:2, Revised January 2006.

"When do Countries Introduce Competition Policy?" (with J. Häckner and A. Muren), Stockholm University, Working Papers in Economics, 2005:6.

"Regional Policy, Integration and the Location of Industry", Working Papers in Economics, Stockholm University, 2003:7. (revised version 2004)

NBER rapporten II: Gini-coefficients for the value of European production. Appendix to chapter 9 by Forslid & Leamer.


Selected publications

"Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment" (with K.Ekholm and J.Markusen), Journal of the European Economic Association, 5:1, 2007, pp.776-95.

"Tax Competition and Agglomeration: The main effects and implications for empirical studies", forthcoming in the Swedish Economic Policy Review 2006. "Multinationals, Endogenous Growth and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence" (with R.Baldwin and H.Braconier), Review of International Economics 13, 2005, pp. 945-63.

"Internalisation, Industrial Policy and Clusters", (with K.H. Midelfart), Journal of International Economics 66, 2005, pp. 197-213.

"Tax Competition and Economic Geography" (with F.Andersson), Journal of Public Economic Theory 5:2, 2003, pp. 279-304.

"A Fundamental Asymmetry of Asymmetric Shocks", (with F.Andersson), European Economic Review, 48:2, 2004.

"“Economic Geography & Public Policy” (with R. Baldwin, P. Martin, G. Ottaviano, and F. Robert-Nicoud), Princeton University Press , Princeton, New Jersey, 2003.

"Comparative Advantage and the Location of Production" (with I. Wooton), Review of International Economics 11:4, 2003, pp. 588-603.

"An Analytically Solvable Core-Periphery Model", (with G. Ottaviano), Journal of Economic Geography 3, 2003, pp. 229-240.

"A U-Shaped Europe? A simulation study of industrial location" (with J.Haaland and K.H. Midelfart-Knarvik), Journal of International Economics 57:2, 2002, pp. 273-97.

"Integration and Transition: Scenarios for Location of Production and Trade in Europe" (with J.Haaland, K.H. Midelfart-Knarvik and O.Maestad), Economics of Transition 10, 2002, pp. 93-117.

"Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-region Firms" (with K.Ekholm), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 103:1, 2001, pp. 101-118.

"The Core-Periphery Model and Endogenous Growth: Stablising and Destabilising Integration" (with R.Baldwin), Economica, 67, 2000, pp.307-24.

"Trade Liberalization and Endogenous Growth: A q-Theory Approach" (with R.Baldwin), Journal of International Economics, 50, 2000, pp. 497-517.

"Incremental Trade Protection and Endogenous Growth: A q-Theory Approach" (with R.Baldwin), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 23, 1999, pp. 797-822.

"Trade and Growth. Any Unfinished Business?" (with R.Baldwin), European Economic Review, 42, 1998, pp. 695-703.

"External Debt and Ponzi-Games in a Small Open Economy with Endogenous Growth", Journal of Macroeconomics, vol.20, No.2, 1998, pp. 341-49.

"Investment Creation and Investment Diversion in Europe" (with R.Baldwin and J.Haaland), The World Economy, vol.19, no.6, 1996, pp. 635-59.


Publications in swedish

"Det behövs en vaccinfabrik i Sverige"(med F.Andersson) , Ekonomisk Debatt nr.5 , 2009.

" Industripolitik för den svenska fordonsindustrin" (med K H Ulltveit-Moe), Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet 2009/3.

"Du sköna ny globaliserade värld?", Underlagsrapport nr 8 till Globaliseringsrådet, 2008.

"Kan vi lita på att monopolistiska läkemedelsföretag tillräckligt snabbt producerar vaccin mot fågelinfluensan?", DN-debatt, 22 februari 2006.



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