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Economics and Finance
Sweden
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
51
Citations
20931
World Ranking
1292
National Ranking
14

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
  • 2021 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 2006 - 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

Per Krusell is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Accounting.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Krusell's recent publications demonstrate a broad engagement with economic theory, policy, and environmental issues. Notable papers include:

  • "Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity," 2021, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Sources of US Wealth Inequality: Past, Present, and Future," 2021, NBER Macroeconomics Annual
  • "Climate Change Around the World," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Presidential Address 2020 Suboptimal Climate Policy," 2021, Journal of the European Economic Association
  • "Finite resources and the world economy," 2022, Journal of International Economics

A number of frequent co-authors have contributed to their research output, including:

  • John Hassler
  • Conny Olovsson
  • Tobias Broer
  • Erik Öberg
  • Karl Harmenberg

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, primarily:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • NBER Macroeconomics Annual
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Quantitative Economics
  • Journal of Political Economy

Per Krusell has received several distinctions, including being named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association in 2021. They were elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2006 and have been recognized as an Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Income and Wealth Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy

    Per Krusell;Anthony A. Smith

  • Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: A macroeconomic analysis

    Per Krusell;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;José Víctor Ríos-Rull;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Long-Run Implications of Investment-Specific Technological Change

    Jeremy Greenwood;Zvi Hercowitz;Per Krusell

  • Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium

    Mikhail Golosov;John Hassler;Per Krusell;Aleh Tsyvinski

  • The role of investment-specific technological change in the business cycle

    Jeremy Greenwood;Zvi Hercowitz;Per Krusell

  • Vested Interests in a Positive Theory of Stagnation and Growth

    Per Krusell;José V́ictor Ríos-Rull

  • Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment

    Andreas Hornstein;Per Krusell;Giovanni L Violante

  • INCOME AND WEALTH HETEROGENEITY, PORTFOLIO CHOICE, AND EQUILIBRIUM ASSET RETURNS

    Per Krusell;Anthony A. Smith

  • Consumption–Savings Decisions with Quasi–Geometric Discounting

    Per Krusell;Anthony A. Smith

  • The Effects of Technical Change on Labor Market Inequalities

    Andreas Hornstein;Per Krusell;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Time-Consistent Public Policy

    Paul Klein;Per Krusell;Jose-Victor Rios-Rull

  • Labor-Market Matching with Precautionary Savings and Aggregate Fluctuations

    Per Krusell;Toshihiko Mukoyama;Aysegul Sahin

  • Politico-economic equilibrium and economic growth

    Per Krusell;Vincenzo Quadrini;José Víctor Ríos-Rull

  • On the size of U.S. Government: Political economy in the neoclassical growth model

    Per Krusell;José Víctor Ríos-Rull

  • Revisiting the welfare effects of eliminating business cycles

    Per Krusell;Toshihiko Mukoyama;Toshihiko Mukoyama;Ayşegül Şahin;Anthony A. Smith

  • On the Welfare Effects of Eliminating Business Cycles

    Per Krusell;Anthony A Smith

  • Constrained efficiency in the neoclassical growth model with uninsurable idiosyncratic shocks

    Julio Dávila;Jay H. Hong;Per Krusell;José‐Víctor Ríos‐Rull

  • Can Technology Improvements Cause Productivity Slowdowns

    Andreas Hornstein;Per Krusell

  • Equilibrium Welfare and Government Policy with Quasi-geometric Discounting

    Per Krusell;Burhanettin Kuruşçu;Anthony A. Smith

  • Temptation and Taxation

    Per Krusell;Burhanettin Kuruscu;Anthony A. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni L. Violante
Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University
Richard Rogerson
Richard Rogerson Princeton University
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University
Kjetil Storesletten
Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota
Jeremy Greenwood
Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania
Sergio Rebelo
Sergio Rebelo Northwestern University
Lee E. Ohanian
Lee E. Ohanian University of California, Los Angeles
Mikhail Golosov
Mikhail Golosov University of Chicago
Vincenzo Quadrini
Vincenzo Quadrini University of Southern California

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