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Lars Calmfors is affiliated with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden. The researcher's work primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with additional contributions to social sciences. Their subfields of study include economics and econometrics, public administration, and political science and international relations.

The main topics addressed in their research are fiscal policies and political economy, fiscal policy and economic growth, labor movements and unions, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, and regional development and policy.

Recent scholarly papers authored by Lars Calmfors include the following:

  • Macroprudential Policy and Household Debt: What Is Wrong with Swedish Macroprudential Policy?, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Pattern Bargaining as a Means to Coordinate Wages in the Nordic Countries, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

These publications have appeared in the SSRN Electronic Journal, which has published two of their papers.

The researcher has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Timothy Heleniak
  • Peter Englund
  • Jesper Rangvid
  • Magnus Gulbrandsen
  • James Gisle Natvik

Lars Calmfors has contributed to book publications with the Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks, including:

  • Fiscal frameworks and fiscal sustainability in the Nordics, 2020
  • Nordic Economic Policy Review 2025: Wage Formation and the Nordic Model, 2025

Best Publications

  • Bargaining structure, corporatism and macroeconomic performance

    Lars Calmfors;John Driffill

  • ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICY AND UNEMPLOYMENT - A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CRUCIAL DESIGN FEATURES

    Lars Calmfors

  • Does active labour market policy work? Lessons from the Swedish experiences

    Lars Calmfors;Anders Forslund;Maria Hemström

  • Centralisation of wage bargaining and macroeconomic performance

    Lars Calmfors

  • Wages and Wage-Bargaining Institutions in the EMU — A Survey of the Issues

    Lars Calmfors

  • Unemployment, Labor Market Reform, and Monetary Union

    Lars Calmfors

  • On the persistence of unemployment

    George S. Alogoskoufis;Alan Manning

  • The role of unions in the twenty-first century: a report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

    T. Boeri;A. Brugiavini;L. Calmfors;A.L. Booth

  • Macroeconomic policy, wage setting, and employment - what difference does the EMU make?

    Lars Calmfors

  • Does Active Labour Market Policy Increase Employment? - Theoretical Considerations and Some Empirical Evidence from Sweden

    Lars Calmfors;Per Skedinger

  • DOES ACTIVE LABOUR-MARKET POLICY INCREASE EMPLOYMENT? THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SWEDEN

    Lars Calmfors;Per Skedinger

  • Wage formation and macroeconomic policy in the Nordic countries

    Lars Calmfors

  • WAGE FORMATION AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES

    L. Calmfors

  • What Should Fiscal Councils Do

    Lars Lars Calmfors;Simon Wren-Lewis

  • EMU - A Swedish Perspective

    Lars Calmfors;Harry Flam;Nils Gottfries;Janne Haaland Matlary

  • Lessons from the macroeconomic experience of Sweden

    Lars Calmfors

  • Macroeconomic Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in a Union Wage-Setting Model

    Lars Calmfors;Harald Lang

  • Work sharing, employment and wages

    Lars Calmfors

  • Work Sharing and Overtime

    Lars Calmfors;Michael Hoel

  • Real-Wage Determination and Labour Market Policies: The Swedish Experience

    Lars Calmfors;Anders Forslund

  • Fiscal policy to stabilise the domestic economy in the EMU: What can we learn from monetary policy?

    Lars Calmfors

  • Fiscal policy when monetary policy is tied to the mast

    Jonas Agell;Lars Calmfors;Gunnar Jonsson

  • Real Wage Adjustment And Employment Policies In The Nordic Countries

    Lars Calmfors;Ragnar Nymoen

Frequent Co-Authors

Giancarlo Corsetti
Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute
Xavier Vives
Xavier Vives University of Navarra
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gilles Saint-Paul
Gilles Saint-Paul Paris School of Economics
Seppo Honkapohja
Seppo Honkapohja Aalto University
Michael P. Devereux
Michael P. Devereux University of Oxford
Daniele Checchi
Daniele Checchi University of Milan
Alison L. Booth
Alison L. Booth Australian National University
Jelle Visser
Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam

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