How high should taxes on high incomes be?

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Jacob Lundberg shows in this new study that it is possible to easily calculate how raising or lowering the marginal tax rate affects tax revenues and the economic cost of taxation to society. The study was recently published in the academic journal Journal of Public Economics.

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Economics of Governance

Vouchers as Innovation Contracts

This paper models voucher systems for welfare services as contracts through which the public sector pays firms to discover cost-reducing innovations. By allowing providers to retain the difference bet…
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9 October 2026

Erik Lundin IFN Senior Research Fellow

Erik Lundin has been promoted to Senior Research Fellow. For such a promotion, IFN’s researchers need to have reached a certain amount of publications, and the articles must, after peer review, be published in highly regarded journals that provide publication points according to a set scoring scale. One of Erik’s latest publications is an article in Energy Economics. Read more about Erik. Congratulations!


25 September 2026

Can closer cooperation between Europe and Asia break the great-power deadlock?

How can small and medium-sized countries preserve their room for manoeuvre when great-power rivalry hampers international cooperation? At a policy seminar at IFN on 24 September, Wing Thye Woo, Professor at Liaoning University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, presented a proposal for a broad partnership between Europe and countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Henrik Horn, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at IFN, commented on the proposal.




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