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Erik Grönqvist

Title

PhD in Economics

Areas of interest

  • Health economics
  • Social insurance
  • Empirical contract theory
  • Market with asymmetric information

Publications and scientific papers

Articles in refereed journals

  • Grönqvist, E, and D Lundin (2009) “Incentives for clinical trials”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol 18, no 5, pp 513-531

Other selected publications

  • Grönqvist E (2006) ”Incitament och beteende vid försäkring av tandvård” [Incentives and Behavior When Insuring Dental Care], Tandläkartidningen, no 8 2006
  • Grönqvist E (2006) ”Hål i plånboken: Hur kan man försäkra sig mot risken för höga tandvårdskostnader?” [Hole in the Wallet: How to Insure Against the Risk of High Dental Care Costs], Ekonomisk Debatt, no 3 2006
  • Grönqvist E (2006) ”Information Updating and Insurance Dropout: Evidence from Dental Insurance”. in Pierre-André Chiappori and Christian Gollier (Eds). Competitive Failures in Insurance Markets: Theory and Policy Implications, MIT Press
  • Grönqvist E (2006) “(M)oral Hazard?”, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, no 642,
  • Grönqvist E & D Lundin (2006) “Incentives for Clinical Trials”, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, no 636
  • Grönqvist E (2004) “Does Adverse Selection Matter? Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, no 575

IFAU-reports and working papers

  • Bennmarker H, E Grönqvist & B Öckert (2009) "Effects of outsourcing employment services: evidence from a randomized experiment" Working paper 2009:23, IFAU
  • Grönqvist E och J Vlachos "One size fits all? The effects of teacher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on student achievement" Working Paper 2008:25, IFAU   

Referee for journals and books

Journal of Political Economy, Economica

Current research projects

  • How important is the principal? (Reg No 98/09)
  • How are abilities transmitted across generations? (Reg No 97/09)
  • Health and unemployment (Reg No 95/09)
  • The long-term effects of bad health on labour supply, income and productivity (Reg No 13/09)
  • Is your parental leave decision affected by your manager’s take-out of parental leave? (Reg No 8/09)
  • Does leadership training make you a better leader? (Reg No 162/07)
  • Does experience rating of sick insurance increase the selection of workers? (Reg No 28/07)
  • Do Norms affect sickness absence among elk hunters? (Reg No 151/06)
  • The role of teacher family characteristics for teaching quality and discrimination (Reg No 97/06)
  • Health risks, economic risks and self prevention (Reg No 98/05)




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