Public economics
Public economics is in short economics of the public sector - taxation and expenditure in terms of various kinds of public services.
Most of the public economics research conducted at our department deals with taxation in one aspect or another, often with influences from behavioral economics.
There is research on optimal taxation where different kinds of social preferences are taken into account and research on tax evasion where the importance of social norms is investigated to mention a couple of fields.
Aronsson, T., O. Johansson-Stenman, and R. Wendner. "Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches", forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
Henrik Andersson, Per Engstrom, Katarina Nordblom, Susanna Wanander (2023), Nudges and threats: soft versus hard incentives for tax compliance, in ECONOMIC POLICY.
Martin Dufwenberg, Katarina Nordblom (2022), Tax evasion with a conscience, in Journal of Public Economic Theory.
P. Engstrom, Katarina Nordblom, Arnaldur Stefansson (2022), Loss aversion and indifference to tax rates: Evidence from tax filing data, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
T. Aronsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman (2021). A note on optimal taxation, status consumption, and unemployment in Journal of Public Economics.
Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti, Katarina Nordblom (2020), The evolution of public policy attitudes: Comparing the mechanisms of policy support across the stages of a policy cycle, in Journal of Public Policy.
Åsa Löfgren, Katarina Nordblom (2020), A theoretical framework of decision making explaining the mechanisms of nudging, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
