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Sweden
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
57
Citations
20915
World Ranking
933
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1976 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 1973 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Assar Lindbeck was affiliated with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden. Their academic work spanned multiple fields, primarily focusing on Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. The research subfields included Accounting, Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science, and Safety Research.

Their main research topics covered Private Equity and Venture Capital, Corporate Finance and Governance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Assar Lindbeck published research in various reputable venues, including the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the European Economic Review, and the SSRN Electronic Journal. Some of their notable papers included:

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2019 (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Economics)
  • Delegation of investment decisions, and optimal remuneration of agents (2020, European Economic Review)
  • The European Social Model: Lessons for Developing Countries (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

The scientist collaborated frequently with Jörgen W. Weibull, with whom they co-authored at least one publication. Their research contributions were recognized by several distinctions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989)
  • Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association (1976)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1973)
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Throughout their career, Assar Lindbeck engaged with complex economic and social issues, producing work that intersected multiple disciplines and topical areas. Their scholarship contributed to understanding investment decision-making, social models, and the economic mechanisms underlying inequality and poverty.

Best Publications

  • The Insider-Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political competition

    Assar Lindbeck;Jörgen W. Weibull

  • The insider-outsider theory of employment and unemployment

    David G. Blanchflower;Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • Wage Setting, Unemployment and Insider-Outsider Relations

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State

    Assar Lindbeck;Sten Nyberg;Jörgen W. Weibull

  • Stabilization policy in open economies with endogenous politicians

    Assar Lindbeck

  • Insiders versus Outsiders

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • Multitask Learning and the Reorganization of Work: From Tayloristic to Holistic Organization

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • The Gains from Pension Reform

    Assar Lindbeck;Mats Persson

  • Hazardous Welfare-State Dynamics

    Assar Lindbeck

  • Cooperation, harassment, and involuntary unemployment : an insider - outsider approach

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • Incentives and Social Norms in Household Behavior

    Assar Lindbeck

  • Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Dennis J. Snower

  • Pension reform - issues and prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes

    Robert Holzmann;Salvador Valdes-Prieto;Ingemar Svensson;Inta Vanovska

  • The Insider-Outsider Theory: A Survey

    Assar Lindbeck;Dennis J. Snower

  • Unemployment and macroeconomics

    Assar Lindbeck

  • Welfare State Disincentives with Endogenous Habits and Norms

    Assar Lindbeck

  • A model of political equilibrium in a representative democracy

    Assar Lindbeck;Jiirgen W. Weibull

  • Altruism and Time Consistency: The Economics of Fait Accompli

    Assar Lindbeck;Jörgen W. Weibull

  • Turning Sweden Around

    Assar Lindbeck

  • What Are the Gains from Pension Reform

    Assar Lindbeck;Mats Persson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis J. Snower
Dennis J. Snower Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Jörgen W. Weibull
Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics
Thorvaldur Gylfason
Thorvaldur Gylfason University of Iceland
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Agnar Sandmo
Agnar Sandmo Norwegian School of Economics
Torsten Persson
Torsten Persson Stockholm University
Robert Holzmann
Robert Holzmann Austrian Academy of Sciences
Axel Börsch-Supan
Axel Börsch-Supan Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Richard Layard
Richard Layard London School of Economics and Political Science

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