Karolina Ekholm, Associate Professor

Stockholm University Department of Economics SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden

+46-8-163037

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Karolina Ekholm is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University. Her research deals primarily with international trade and investment.

Research interests

  • International trade
  • Foreign direct investment/multinational firms
  • Economic Geography

Working papers

"The Effect of Offshoring on Labor Demand: Evidence from Sweden" (with Katariina Hakkala), (revised version of CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5648).

"A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition" (with Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6402).

"Manufacturing restructuring and the role of Real exchange rate shocks: A firm level analysis"" (with Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe), CEPR Working Paper No. 6904.

Selected publications

"Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment" (with Rikard Forslid and James Markusen), Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(4) (2007), 776-95.

"Location of R&D and High-Tech Production by Vertically Integrated Multinationals" (with Katariina Hakkala), Economic Journal, 117 (2007) 512-43.

"Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals" (with Sascha Becker, Robert Jäckle, and Marc-Andreas Muendler), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 141(4) (2005), 693-731.

"Relative Wages and Trade-Induced Changes in Technology" (with Karen Helene Midelfart), European Economic Review, 49 (2005), 1637-1663 (revised version of CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2677).

"Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms" (with Rikard Forslid), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 103 (2001), 101-118.

"In Search of FDI-Transmitted R&D Spillovers: A Study Based on Swedish Data" (with Henrik Braconier and Karen Helene Midelfart Knarvik) Welfwirtschaftliches Archiv, Band 137 (2001), 644-665.

"Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations" (with Henrik Braconier, Review of International Economics, 8 (2000), 448-461.

"Headquarter Services and Revealed Factor Abundance", Review of International Economics, 6 (1998), 545-553.

"High-Technology Subsidies in General Equilibrium: A Sector-Specific Approach" (with Johan Torstensson), Canadian Journal of Economics, 30 (1997), 1184-1203.

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