Professor

Assar Lindbeck

(
1930
2020
)
University of Stockholm, Sweden
;
Stockholm, Sweden
Economist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
1989
International Honorary Member

 

Professor Assar Lindbeck is the Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Stockholm University. His research focuses on macroeconomics and issues concerning the welfare state. He has analyzed the role of financial factors for the behavior of households and firms and the theory of unemployment - the insider-outsider theory of employment and unemployment. His recent studies include forces in reorganization of firms and the interaction between economic incentives and social norms. He has authored two empirical papers. The first one examines interaction effects between labor security legislation and sick leave insurance, and in the second paper (jointly with Mårten Palme and Mats Persson) local variation in sick leave is studied. Assar Lindbeck is also a fellow at CESifo in Munich and Kiel Institute of World Economics.

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