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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
81
Citations
36270
World Ranking
260
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 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
  • 2012 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1992 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1990 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Lars E.O. Svensson is affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and has contributed to academic research in both engineering and economics. Their work spans multiple fields and subfields, reflecting a cross-disciplinary approach to topics related to automotive technology and financial systems.

Their recent publications include studies on motion planning and control for automated vehicles as well as economic analyses related to housing markets and financial behavior. Notable research papers include:

  • Traction Adaptive Motion Planning and Control at the Limits of Handling, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Motion Planning and Control of Automated Vehicles in Critical Situations, 2021, Publications (Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design)
  • Traction Adaptive Motion Planning at the Limits of Handling, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Are Swedish House Prices Too High? Why the Price-to-Income Ratio is a Misleading Indicator, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Household Debt Overhang Did Hardly Cause a Larger Spending Fall During the Financial Crisis in Australia, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Svensson frequently collaborates with Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Arpit Karsolia, Christian Berger, and Martin Törngren, each with multiple joint publications.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Publications (Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The main fields of study encompass:

  • Engineering
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, Svensson's research spans notable subfields including:

  • Automotive Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Finance
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Economics and Econometrics

The focal topics in their research involve:

  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety

Svensson has received recognition as a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association in 2012. Earlier in their career, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, a Member of Academia Europaea in 1992, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Inflation forecast targeting: Implementing and monitoring inflation targets

    Lars E.O. Svensson;Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Optimal Inflation Targets, 'Conservative' Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts

    Lars E O Svensson

  • Open-economy inflation targeting

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Inflation targeting as a monetary policy rule

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Policy Rules for Inflation Targeting

    Glenn D. Rudebusch;Lars E. O. Svensson

  • Why a Stubborn Conservative would Run a Deficit: Policy with Time-Inconsistent Preferences

    Torsten Persson;Lars E. O. Svensson

  • Optimal Inflation Targets, `Conservative' Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • What is Wrong with Taylor Rules? Using Judgment in Monetary Policy through Targeting Rules

    Lars E. O. Svensson

  • The Zero Bound in an Open Economy : A Foolproof Way of Escaping from a Liquidity Trap

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Implementing Optimal Policy through Inflation-Forecast Targeting

    Lars E O Svensson;Michael Woodford

  • The Terms of Trade and the Current Account: The Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect

    Lars E. O. Svensson;Assaf Razin

  • Inflation Targeting: Some Extensions

    Lars E. O. Svensson

  • Transparency and Credibility: Monetary Policy with Unobservable Goals

    Jon Faust;Lars E O Svensson

  • Transparency and Credibility: Monetary Policy with Unobservable Goals

    Jon Faust;Lars E. O. Svensson

  • Money and Asset Prices in a Cash-in-Advance Economy

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Money and Inflation in the Euro Area: A Case for Monetary Indicators? ∗

    Stefan Gerlach;Stefan Gerlach;Lars E.O Svensson

  • ESCAPING FROM A LIQUIDITY TRAP AND DEFLATION: THE FOOLPROOF WAY AND OTHERS

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • New Techniques to Extract Market Expectations from Financial Instruments

    Paul Söderlind;Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Stochastic Devaluation Risk and the Empirical Fit of Target-Zone Models

    Giuseppe Bertola;Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Estimating and Interpreting Foreward Interest Rates: Sweden 1992-1994

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  • Indicator Variables for Optimal Policy

    Lars E.O. Svensson;Lars E.O. Svensson;Lars E.O. Svensson;Michael Woodford;Michael Woodford

  • Price Level Targeting vs. Inflation Targeting: A Free Lunch?

    Lars E. O. Svensson

  • The Swedish Experiment

    Anders Bjork;Nils Elvander;Ulf Jakobsson;Magnus Henrekson

  • Social Value of Public Information: Comment: Morris and Shin (2002) Is Actually Pro-Transparency, Not Con

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Estimating and Interpreting Forward Interest Rates: Sweden 1992 - 1994

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • The Zero Bound in an Open Economy: A Foolproof Way of Escaping from a Liquidity Trap

    Lars E.O. Svensson

  • Policy Rules for Inflation Targeting

    Glenn D Rudebusch;Lars E. O Svensson

  • Estimating and Interpreting Forward Interest Rates: Sweden 1992-4

    Lars E O Svensson

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Persson
Torsten Persson Stockholm University
Michael Woodford
Michael Woodford Columbia University
Stefan Gerlach
Stefan Gerlach EFG International
Olivier Jeanne
Olivier Jeanne Johns Hopkins University
Assaf Razin
Assaf Razin Tel Aviv University
Glenn D. Rudebusch
Glenn D. Rudebusch Brookings Institution
Jon Faust
Jon Faust Johns Hopkins University
James H. Stock
James H. Stock Harvard University
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Princeton University
Michael Mussa
Michael Mussa International Monetary Fund

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