Andreas Bergh, PhD
Ratio and Lund university
Work in progress:
On the growth effects of institutional instability (w. Niclas Berggren & Christian Bjørnskov)*
On trust and welfare state universality (w. Christian Bjørnskov)
On globalization and life expectancy (w. Therese Nilsson)*
On the effects of globalization and economic freedom on inequality (w. Therese Nilsson)*
On immigration and redistribution (w. Günther Fink)*
On corruption in Sweden
On outsourcing and social insurance
On the evolution of property rights and sharing norms
On policy lessons from Sweden, the capitalist welfare state
* = under submission
Articles in refereed journals (n=11.33)
2009
Bergh, A., and M. Karlson. (2009). Government size and growth: accounting for economic freedom and globalization. Public Choice, Forthcoming.
Bergh, A. and G. Fink. 2009. "Higher education, elite institutions and inequality." European Economic Review 53:376-384.
Bergh, A. and G. Erlingsson. 2009. "Liberalization without Retrenchment: Understanding the Consensus on Swedish Welfare State Reforms." Scandinavian Political Studies 32:71-94.
2008
Erlingsson, G. O., A. Bergh, and M. Sjölin. 2008. "Public Corruption in Swedish Municipalities - Trouble Looming on the Horizon?" Local Government Studies 34:595 - 608.
Bergh, A. 2008. "A critical note on the theory of inequity aversion." Journal of Socio - Economics 37:1789-1789.
Bergh, A. and G. Fink. 2008. "Higher Education Policy, Enrollment, and Income Inequality." Social Science Quarterly 89:217-235.
Bergh, A. 2008. "Explaining the Survival of the Swedish Welfare State: Maintaining Political Support through Incremental Change." Financial Theory and Practice 32:233-254. Download!
2007
Bergh, A. 2007. "The Middle Class and the Swedish Welfare State: How Not to Measure Redistribution". The Independent Review 11(4): 533-546.
2006
Bergh, A. 2006. "Work Incentives and Employment are the Wrong Explanation of Sweden’s Success." Econ Journal Watch 3(3), p. 452-460.
Bergh, A. 2006. "Is the Swedish Welfare State a Free Lunch? A comment on Peter H. Lindert's book Growing Public". Econ Journal Watch 3(2), p. 210-235.
2005
Bergh, A. 2005. "On Inter and Intra-individual Redistribution of the Welfare State." Social Science Quarterly 86(5): 984-995.
Bergh, A. 2005. "On the Counterfactual Problem of Welfare State Research: How Can We Measure Redistribution?" European Sociological Review, 21(4): 345-357.
2004
Bergh, A. 2004. "The Universal Welfare State: Theory and the Case of Sweden."Political Studies, 52(4): 745-766.
Bergh, A. 2004. "On the Redistributive Effect of Upper Benefit Limits in Bismarckian Social Insurance."Finnish Economic Papers 17(2): 73-78.
Books and Book chapters
2008
Bergh, A. and R. Höijer (editors). 2008. Institutional competition. Edward Elgar.
Bergh, A. (2008). Den Kapitalistiska Välfärdsstaten. Norstedts Akademiska Förlag. (Second revised ed. fall 2008)
2005
Bergh, A. (2005). "Poverty and New Welfare Economics." In "Economists and Poverty", Rauhut, Hatti & Olsson (red.), Vedam eBooks (P) Ltd. 2005.
2003
Bergh, A. 2003. "Distributive Justice and the Welfare State." Lund Economic Studies 115, Dept. of Economics, Lund University.
2001
Bergh, Andreas och Daniel Rubensson (2001). "Tennis och Politik – Är deltagande en dygd?" I ”En uthållig demokrati?”, Strömbeck (red.). Uppsala Publishing House, 2001.
Conference presentations (selection)
Bergh, Andreas and Martin Karlsson (2008), Revisiting the Relation between Government Size and Growth in Rich Countries: Accounting for Institutions, Endogeneity and Recent Data, European Economics Association, Milano, august 27-31, 2008
Bergh, Andreas and Therese Nilsson (2008), Do liberalization and globalization lead to income inequality?, Paper presented at the American Public Choice Society Meeting in New Orleans, March 2008.
Bergh, Andreas and Peter Engseld (2006). Choosing Opponents in Prisoner's Dilemma Presented at the winter meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston MA, january 2006. (Working Paper 2005:45, Dept. of Economics, Lund University.)
Working papers (selection)
Bergh A. And M. Karlsson (2009). Government size and growth: Accounting for economic freedom and globalization. Ratio Working Paper No 130. Download!
Bergh, A. (2006) Explaining Welfare State Survival: The Role of Economic Freedom and Globalization. Ratio Working Paper 101. Download!
Reports (selection)
Bergh, A. (2006). Rättvisa och Socialförsäkringar: Hur rättvis kan socialförsäkringen bli?, Försäkringskassan analyserar 2006:5
Bergh, A. (2001). Socialförsäkringar, jämställdhet och ekonomisk tillväxt. Riksförsäkringsverket redovisar, 2001:1
Bergh, A. (2001). Svenska för invandrare - En brygga till livet i Sverige? SAF, 2001
Popular writing in Economics (selection)
Bergh, A. (2007). Avgiftsfri skattefinansierad högre utbildning: Håller de fördelningspolitiska argumenten? I Nils Karlson (red) Den Fria Akademin, Ratio förlag.
Bergh, A. (2005). Hur bemöter vi kritiken mot nationalekonomin? Ekonomisk Debatt, nr 6-2005.
Bergh, A. (2004). Blev den svenska välfärdsstaten mer eller mindre universell under 1990-talet? Ekonomisk Debatt, 2-2004.
Bergh, A. (2002). Jämlikhet. Om rättvisa, inkomster och klyftor. Timbro Förlag.
Participation in research projects and organization of conferences
Together with political scientists at Växjö university, I run the program ‘Trust and corruption in swedish municipalities’ financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
At the Ratio Institute, I am currently leading a research projects on Political and Institutional Change in mature welfare states. This project is financed by Torsten and Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelser.
Together with Niclas Berggren I have organized the international conference “Trust, Reciprocity and Social Capital” for young social scientists held in Stockholm August 25-26, 2006.
During 2004 and 2005, I was part of the research project “Ojämlikhet, omfördelning och socialförsäkringar” financed by The National Social Insurance Board, led by Fredrik Andersson at Dept of economics, Lund University.
International contacts
2004 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (presently the Institute for Quantative Social Science), Harvard University.
2007, 2008 Invited research visit, Harvard School of Public Health
Referee work
Social Science Quarterly, European Journal of Political Economy, European Sociological Review, Public Choice
Teaching experience and course evaluations
Microeconomics (first year course),Public Economics (second year course) and Institutional Economics (second year course) taughtwith very good student evaluations.
Repeatedly hired as guest lecturer for Uppsala Univerity, Försäkringskassan,Executive Foundation Lund (includingthe Executeve MBA-program).
Pedagogical training
Högskolepedagogik 10 credits, 2003.
Text books
Contract with Norstedts Akademiska Förlag to write a textbook in Swedish on microeconomics and institutional economics (working title: Modern mikroekonomi).
Course Development
Continous development of material for the first year course in microeconomics: Exams, groupwork, internet-based questions, power points.
Development of an entirely new course in Institutional Economics
Public lectures
Regularly participates in public lectures, debates et cetera. Examples include lectures or debates at KPMG consulting, Försäkringskassan, Folkpartiet, Socialdemokratiska studentförbundet, Liberala ungdomsförbundet and various student organizations.