Matz Dahlberg

Title

Professor in Economics

Areas of interest

• Municipal Economics
• Fiscal Federalism
• Political Economy
• Social Allowance

Publications and scientific papers

Articles in refereed journals

• Dahlberg M, E Mörk, J Rattsø, and H Ågren (2007), “Using a Discontinuous Grant Rule to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending”, forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics
• Dahlberg M and M Gustavsson (2007), “Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income”, forthcoming in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
• Dahlberg M and K Edmark (2007), “Is there a ‘Race-to-the-Bottom’ in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels: Evidence from a Policy Intervention”, forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics
• Dahlberg M, E Mörk & P Tovmo(2007) "On the performance of the Sargan Test in the Presence of Measurement Errors", forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters
• Ågren H, M Dahlberg & E Mörk (2007) "Do Politicians’ Preferences Correspond to those of the Voters? An Investigation of Political Representation", Public Choice, vol 130, p 137-162
• Dahlberg M & S Blomquist (2006) “The Case Against JIVE: A Comment”, Journal of Applied Econometrics vol 21, p 839-841
• Dahlberg M & A Forslund (2005) “Direct Displacement Effects of Active Labour Market programmes”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics vol 107, s 475-494
• Dahlberg M & E Mörk (2006) "Public Employment and the Doulble Role of Bureaucrats", Public Choice vol 126, p 387-404
• Bergström P, M Dahlberg & E Mörk (2004) “The Effects of Grants and Wages on Municipal Labour Demand”, Labour Economics, vol 11, p 315-334
• Dahlberg M & E Johansson (2002) ”On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments”, American Political Science Review, vol 96, p 27-40
• Dahlberg, M & E Johansson (2000) “An Examination of the Dynamic Behavior of Local Governments using GMM Bootstrapping Methods”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol 15, p 401-416
• Dahlberg M & S Blomquist (1999) “Small Sample Properties of Jackknife IV and LIML Estimators: Experiments with Weak Instruments”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol 14, p 69-88
• Dahlberg M & T Lindström (1998) ““Are Local Governments Governed by Forward Looking Decision Makers? An Investigation of Spending Patterns in Swedish Municipalities”, Journal of Urban Economics, vol 44, p 254-271
• Dahlberg, M & E Johansson (1998) “The Revenues-Expenditures Nexus: Panel Data Evidence from Swedish Municipalities”, Applied Economics, vol 30, p 1379-1386

Other selected publications

• Dahlberg M & D Lundin (2005) “Antidepressants and the Suicide Rate: Is there Really a Connection?”, in Lindgren B & M Grossman (Eds) Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol. 16 - Substance Use: Individual Behavior, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics, Elsevier, Oxford, England
• Dahlberg M & H Ågren (2005) “Swedish Economic National Report”, in Påhlsson R (ed) Yearbook for Nordic Tax Research 2005: Local Taxation, Nordisk Skattevitenskapelig Forskningsråd, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo
• Dahlberg M, E Mörk & H Ågren (2005) ”Har kommunens storlek någon betydelse för den lokala demokratin?”  (Does the Size of the Municipality Matter for the Local Democracy?), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 5, 33-47
• Dahlberg M & P Pettersson-Lidbom ()2005) ”Har svenska kommuner mjuka budgetrestriktioner?” (Have Swedish Municipalities Soft Budget Constraints?), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 5, 60-76
• Dahlberg M & E Mörk (2005) ”Kommunanställda byråkraters dubbla roll” (The Double Role of Bureaucrats in the Municipal Sector), Arbetsmarknad och arbetsliv, vol 11, 171-177
• Dahlberg M & J von Hagen (2004) “Swedish Local Government: Is there a Bailout Problem”, in Molander P (ed) Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States, Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Dahlberg M & J von Hagen (2003)  “Finns det ett bailoutproblem i Sverige?” (Is there a Bailout Problem in Sweden?), in Molander P (ed) Staten och kommunerna, SNS Förlag
• Dahlberg M & E Mörk (2003) ”Släpp dataseten fria! Slutreplik” (Release the Datasets! Reply), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 1, 53-55
• Dahlberg, M & E Johansson (2002) ”Släpp dataseten fria!” (Release the datasets!), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 30, p 663-664
• Dahlberg, M, E Johansson & J Holm (2002) ”Ekonomisk Debatt i slutet av dess tredje decennium” (Ekonomisk Debatt at the End of its Third Decade) Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 30, p 529-534
• Dahlberg M & E Johansson (2002) ” ”Ja må de leva uti hundrade år (och mer därtill)!”, Ekonomisk Debatt 6, 503-504
• Dahlberg M & E Johansson (2002) ”Högre utbildning och forskning” (Higher Education and Research), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 2, 107-108
• Braunerhjelm, P, M Dahlberg & E Johansson (2002) ”Inkomstfördelnig och optimal politik” (Income Distribution and Optimal Politics), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 1, 3-4
• Dahlberg M (2001) “Book review: Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance: The Scandinavian Perspective”, Rattsø J (Ed), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol 31, 119-125
• Dahlberg, M & E Johansson (2001) ”Dags att tänka om i socialbidragssystemet” (Time to rethink the system for social assistance), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 29, p 3-5
• Dahlberg M & E Johansson (2001) ”De arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärderna – en lyckad medicin?” (Active Labor Market Programmes – Do They Work?), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 4, 235-237
• Dahlberg M & A Forslund (2000) “Direkta undanträngningseffekter av arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder” (Direct Displacement Effects of Labour Market Programmes), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 8, 725-737
• Dahlberg, M & E Johansson (2000) “Om regeringars röstköpsbeteende” (On the vote purchasing behavior of incumbent governments), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 28, p 305-316
• Bergström, P, M Dahlberg & E Johansson (1999) “Statsbidragens och lönernas effekter på den kommunala arbetskraftsefterfrågan” (The effects of intergovernmental grants and wages on municipal labour demand), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 27, p 151-161
• Dahlberg M (1997) “Essays on Estimation Methods and Local Public Economics”, Economic Studies 31, Uppsala University (Ph.D. Thesis)

IFAU-reports and working papers

• Dahlberg M, K Johansson och E Mörk "On mandatory activation of welfare receivers", Working Paper 2008:24, IFAU
• Dahlberg M, H Lundqvist & E Mörk "Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power" Working paper 2008:17, IFAU
• Dahlberg M & E Mörk "Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects", Working paper 2008:3, IFAU
• Dahlberg M & M Gustafsson (2005) "Inequality and crime: separating the effects of permanent and transitory income" Working Paper 2005:19, IFAU
• Dahlberg M & E Mörk (2004) “Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats”, Working paper 2004:11, IFAU. Published in Public Choice
• Dahlberg M & A Forslund “Direct Displacement Effects of Active Labour Market Policies”, Working Paper 1999:7, IFAU. Published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• Bergström, P, M Dahlberg & E Mörk (1998) “Municipal labour demand” Working Paper 1998:1, IFAU. Published in Labour Economics

Referee for journals and books

Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, National Tax Journal, The American Journal of Political Science, European Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, International Tax and Public Finance, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, CESifo/MIT Press, Applied Economics and American Economic Review

Current research projects

• Entry and exit effects of mandatory activation for welfare participants (Reg No 104/09)
• The health status among recipients of welfare benefits (Reg No 91/08)
• Jobbtorg in the City of Stockholm (Reg No 27/08)
• Welfare assistance in Sweden (Reg No 142/07)
• Do welfare prone individuals move to more generous municipalities? (Reg No 120/06)
• The effect of intergovernmental grants on local public outcomes
• Do municipalities compete for attractive residents? (Reg No 121/05)

Current appointments

• Member of the board, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
• Director for Master Program in Economics at Uppsala University
• Member of editorial board, Ekonomisk Debatt