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58 publikationer (motsvarande mer än två per år sedan disputation)
Andreas Bergh, docent i nationalekonomi, Lunds universitet och IFN
Scopus author id: 7101766825
Google scholar (Feb 2026)
Publikationer i vetenskapliga tidskrifter
Bergh, A. & M. Nordin. 2026. Must Capital Income Increase Long-Term Inequality? Evidence from Sweden 1991–2021. Journal of the Finnish Economic Association (kommande).
Bergh, A., D. Sandberg & E. Wittberg. 2026. Rural Retrenchment and Marginalization in Sweden? Evidence from Employment Registers and Survey Data. Population, Space and Place 32(3): e70250.
Bergh, A., C. Bjørnskov & J. Callais. 2026. Economic globalization and income shares. Journal of Comparative Economics.
Berggren, N., A. Bergh & T. Nilsson. 2026. Economic or political uncertainty in early life reduces later tolerance. Journal of Comparative Economics.
Bergh, A., & Wernberg, J. 2025. Stress Testing a Quasi-Market: Unintended Consequences of the Swedish School Voucher System. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration 29(4): 78–92.
Berggren, N., A. Bergh & T. Nilsson. 2025. Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities. Journal of Comparative Economics 53(3): 772-785.
Bergh, A., C. Bjørnskov & Luděk Kouba. 2025. The Growth Consequences of Socialism. Journal of Comparative Economics, 53(2):609-626.
Nordin, A., C. Hammarlund & A. Bergh. 2025. A study of job polarization in Sweden from an urban-rural perspective. Journal for Labour Market Research 59. Länk.
Bergh, A., & Erlingsson, G. 2025. Retrenchment without liberalisation: Making Sense of Sweden's Shift Away from Consensual and Evidence-Based Politics Scandinavian Political Studies, 48: e70000. Länk.
Bergh, A., & G. Ó. Erlingsson. 2024. ”Municipally owned corporations in Sweden: A cautionary tale”. Public Money & Management 44(7): 586–93. Länk.
Bergh, A., & Kärnä, A. 2022, Explaining the rise of populism in European democracies 1980-2018: The role of labor market institutions and inequality. Social Science Quarterly, 103(7): 1719-1731. Länk.
Bergh, A., & Wichardt, P. 2022. Mine or Ours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games" Rationality and Society 34(1):78-95. Länk.
Bergh, A., & Bjørnskov, C. 2021. Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone? Kyklos 74: 170-186. Länk.
Bergh, A., & Bjørnskov, C. 2021. Trust Us to Repay: Social Trust, Long-Term Interest Rates, and Sovereign Credit Ratings. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 53(5). Länk.
Bergh, A., Erlingsson, G. & Wittberg, E. 2021. What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities. Local Government Studies 48(4): 704-727. Länk.
Bergh, A., Funcke, A. and J. Wernberg. 2021. The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its relationship to Capitalism. International Review of Entrepreneurship. 19(1): 69-92. Pre-print.
Bergh, A. 2021. The compensation hypothesis revisited and reversed, Scandinavian Political Studies 44(2): 140-147. (Open access).
Bergh, A., & Kärnä, A. 2020. Globalization and populism in Europe. Public Choice. Open access.
Bergh, A., & Bjørnskov, C. 2020. Does big government hurt growth less in high-trust countries? Contemporary Economic Policy 38(4): 643-658. Länk (open access).
Berggren, N., Bergh, A., Bjørnskov, C., and S Tanaka. 2020. Migrants and Life Satisfaction: The Role of the Country of Origin and the Country of Residence. Kyklos 73(3): 436–463. Open access.
Bergh, A., T. Nilsson and I. Mirkina, 2020. Can social spending cushion the inequality effect of globalization? Economics & Politics 32(1):104-142. Can social spending cushion the inequality effect of globalization.pdf.
Bergh, A. and Funcke, A. 2019. Social trust and sharing economy size: Country-level evidence from home-sharing services. Applied Economics Letters 27(19): 1592-1595. Trust_and_the_sharing_economy_AEL-pre-print.pdf.
Bergh, A., 2019. Hayekian welfare states: Explaining the co-existence of economic freedom and big government, Journal of Institutional Economics 16(1): 1-12. Bergh19_HWS_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A., Erlingsson, G., Gustafsson, A. & Wittberg, E. 2018. Municipally owned enterprises as danger zones for corruption? How politicians having feet in two camps may undermine conditions for accountability. Public Integrity 21(3): 320-352. BerghEtA_2018_PublicIntegrity.pdf.
Bergh, A. & Öhrvall, R. 2018. A sticky trait: Social trust among Swedish expatriates in countries with varying institutional quality. Journal of Comparative Economics 46(4): 1146-1157. BerghÖhrvall18_JCE_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and P. C. Wichardt. 2018. Accounting for Context: Separating Monetary and (Uncertain) Social Incentives. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 72: 61–66.
Bergh, A., Fink, G., & Öhrvall, R. 2017. More politicians, more corruption: evidence from Swedish municipalities. Public Choice 172(3–4): 483–500. Government Size and Corruption - preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. 2017. Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD. Migration Letters 14(2): 243–254. ML - pre-print.pdf.
Bergh, A., Dackehag, M. and Rode, M. 2017. Are OECD policy recommendations for public sector reform biased against welfare states? Evidence from a new database. European Journal of Political Economy 48: 3–15. OECD recommends EJPE pre-print.pdf.
Bergh, A. and M. Henrekson. 2016. Government Size and Growth: A Rejoinder Journal of Economic Surveys.
Bergh, A. 2015. The future of welfare services: How worried should we be about Baumol, Wagner and Ageing? Nordic Economic Policy Review.
Bergh, A., T. Nilsson, and I. Mirkina. 2015. Do the poor benefit from globalization regardless of institutional quality? Applied Economics Letters 23(10): 708-712. BerghMirkinaNilsson14_AEL_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. Yes, There Are Hayekian Welfare States (At Least in Theory) Econ Journal Watch 12(1): 22-27.
Berggren, N., Bergh, A. and Bjørnskov, C. 2015. What Matters for Growth in Europe? Institutions versus Policies, Quality versus Instability. Journal of Economic Policy Reform 18(1): 69–88. BerggrenBerghBjørnskov12_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and C. Bjørnskov. 2014. Trust, Welfare States and Income Equality: Sorting out the causality. European Journal of Political Economy 35:183-199. BerghNilsson14_WD_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and T. Nilsson. 2014. Is Globalization Reducing Absolute Poverty?, World Development 62: 42-61. BerghNilsson14_WD_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and T. Nilsson. When more poor means less poverty: On income inequality and purchasing power, Southern Economic Journal. BerghNilsson14_SEJ_final_author_copy.pdf.
Bergh, A., T. Nilsson and I. Mirkina. Globalization and institutional quality: A panel data analysis. Oxford Development Studies. BerghNilsson14_WD_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. 2014. What are the policy lessons from Sweden? On the rise, fall and revival of a capitalist welfare state. New Political Economy. 19(5): 662–94. Bergh14_NPE_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and Lyttkens, C H. Measuring institutional quality in ancient Athens, Journal of Institutional Economics 10(2): 279-310. Working paper. BerghLyttkens14_JIE_preprint.pdf.
Berggren, N., Bergh, A., and C. Bjørnskov. The growth effects of institutional instability. Journal of Institutional Economics 8(2):187-224. BerggrenBerghBjørnskov12_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and M. Henrekson. Government size and growth: A survey and interpretation of the evidence. Journal of Economic Surveys 25(5):872-897. (Working paper of latest author version).
Bergh, A. and C. Bjørnskov. Historical trust levels predict current welfare state size. Kyklos 64(1):1-19. (Lead article). BerghNilsson10WD_pre-print.pdf.
Bergh, A. and T. Nilsson. Do liberalization and globalization increase income inequality? European Journal of Political Economy 48:488-505. BerghNilsson10_EJPE_pre-print.pdf.
Bergh, A. and T. Nilsson. "Good for living? On the relation between globalization and life expectancy." World Development 38(9):1191-1203. (Lead article). BerghNilsson10WD_pre-print.pdf.
Bergh, A. and M. Karlson. Government size and growth: accounting for economic freedom and globalization. Public Choice 142(1):195-213. BerghKarlsson10.pdf.
Bergh, A. and G. Fink. "Higher education, elite institutions and inequality." European Economic Review 53:376-384. BerghFink09_preprint.pdf.
Bergh, A. and G. Erlingsson. "Liberalization without Retrenchment: Understanding the Consensus on Swedish Welfare State Reforms." Scandinavian Political Studies 32:71-94. BerghErlingsson09_preprint.pdf.
Erlingsson, G. O., A. Bergh, and M. Sjölin. "Public Corruption in Swedish Municipalities - Trouble Looming on the Horizon?" Local Government Studies 34:595-608.
Bergh, A. "A critical note on the theory of inequity aversion." Journal of Socio-Economics 37:1789-1789.
Bergh, A. and G. Fink. "Higher Education Policy, Enrollment, and Income Inequality." Social Science Quarterly 89:217-235.
Bergh, A. "Explaining the Survival of the Swedish Welfare State: Maintaining Political Support through Incremental Change." Financial Theory and Practice 32:233-254.
Bergh, A. "The Middle Class and the Swedish Welfare State: How Not to Measure Redistribution." The Independent Review 11(4): 533-546.
Bergh, A. "Work Incentives and Employment are the Wrong Explanation of Sweden’s Success." Econ Journal Watch 3(3): 452-460.
Bergh, A. "Is the Swedish Welfare State a Free Lunch? A comment on Peter H. Lindert's book Growing Public." Econ Journal Watch 3(2): 210-235.
Bergh, A. "On Inter and Intra-individual Redistribution of the Welfare State." Social Science Quarterly 86(5): 984-995.
Bergh, A. "On the Counterfactual Problem of Welfare State Research: How Can We Measure Redistribution?" European Sociological Review 21(4): 345-357.
Bergh, A. "The Universal Welfare State: Theory and the Case of Sweden." Political Studies 52(4): 745-766.
Bergh, A. "On the Redistributive Effect of Upper Benefit Limits in Bismarckian Social Insurance." Finnish Economic Papers 17(2): 73-78.
Böcker och kapitel i böcker (urval)
Bergh, A. and Kärnä, A. 2024. Economic freedom and populism. In: Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom (ed. N. Berggren). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Länk.
Bergh, A. 2022. An All Too Successful Reform? The 1997 Overhaul of the Swedish Budget Process. Chapter 11 i de La Porte, C. m fl. (red.) "Successful Public Policy: Lessons From the Nordic Countries." Oxford University Press. Länk
Bergh, A. 2022. Den Kapitalistiska Välfärdsstaten. Studentlitteratur. (Fjärde reviderade upplagan.) Länk.
Bergh, A., C. Bjornskov och K. Vallier. 2021. "Social and Legal Trust: The Case of Africa” i "Social Trust" (red: Kevin Vallier och Michael Weber), New York: Routledge. Länk.
Bergh, A. 2021. "Poverty and New Welfare Economics." Kap 8 i "Economists and Poverty", Lundahl, Rauhut & Hatti (red.) Routledge. Länk.
Bergh, A. 2019. Is Migration Threatening Social Trust in Europe? I "Trust in the European Union in Challenging Times", A. B. Engelbrekt, N. Bremberg, A. Michalski, L. Oxelheim (red.), Springer. Länk
Bergh, A. 2016. Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State. Edward Elgar.
Bergh, Erlingsson, Sjölin & Öhrvall 2016. A Clean House? Studies of Corruption in Sweden. Nordic Academic Press.
Bergh, Nilsson & Waldenström 2016. Sick of Inequality? Edward Elgar.
Bergh, A. 2015. "Comments on 'Collective Risk Sharing: The Social Safety Net and Employment' by Torben M. Andersen." Sid. 46-49 i "Reform Capacity and Macroeconomic Performance in the Nordic Countries", T. M. Andersen, M. Bergman och S. E. H. Jensen (red.). Oxford, UK.: Oxford University Press.
Nilsson, T. and A. Bergh. 2013. Income inequality, health and development – In search of a pattern. s. 441-468 i Research on Economic Inequality, volume 21: Health and Inequality, red. Pedro Rosa Dias and Owen O’Donnell.
Bergh, A. och Henrekson, M. 2012. Varför går det bra för Sverige? Fores + Ivrig Förlag.
Bergh, A. och Henrekson, M. 2011. Government size and growth. American Enterprise Institute.
Bergh, A. 2010. Towards a New Swedish Model? in Bengtsson (ed) "Population Agein - A Threat to the Welfare State?", Springer.
Bergh och Jakobsson. 2010. Modern Mikroekonomi Norstedts.
Andersson, S., A. Bergh, G. Ó. Erlingsson och M. Sjölin (red). (2010). Korruption, maktmissbruk och legitimitet. Stockholm: Norstedts.
Bergh, A. and R. Höijer (editors). 2008. Institutional competition. Edward Elgar.
Bergh, A. 2003. "Distributive Justice and the Welfare State." Lund Economic Studies 115, Dept. of Economics, Lund University.
Bergh, Andreas och Daniel Rubensson (2001). "Tennis och Politik – Är deltagande en dygd?" I ”En uthållig demokrati?”, Strömbeck (red.). Uppsala Publishing House, 2001.
BOOK REVIEWS (urval)
Bergh, A. 2012. Beyond Welfare State Models – Transnational Historical Perspectives on Social Policy – Edited by Pauli Kettunen and Klaus Petersen. In International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 21, Issue 3, pages 319–320, July 2012.
Bergh, A. 2011. Nordics in Global Crisis: Vulnerability and Resilience by Thorvaldur Gylfason, Bengt Holmström, Sixten Korkman, Hans Tson Söderström, and Vesa Vihriälä. Journal of Economic Literature, March 2011.
Bergh, A. 2009. "Full employment in Europe: Managing labour market transitions and risks - By Günther Schmid." Papers in Regional Science 88:883-885.
RAPPORTER (urval)
Bergh, A. och G. Erlingsson 2023. Vad hände med Sveriges reformförmåga? Entreprenörskapsforum. Länk.
Bergh, A. och A. Kruse 2022. Tryggare kan ingen vara? En ESO rapport om socialförsäkringar och välfärdssystem. ESO-rapport 2022:2. Länk.
Bergh, A. 2021. Social Trust: Where Does It Come From and How Do We Protect It? European Liberal Forum Policy Paper (Nov 2021). Länk.
Bergh, A. 2013. Bygger besparingspolitiken på ett räknefel? Timbro. Länk
Bergh, A. 2009. Värnskatten och jämlikheten. Rapport utgiven av Almega.
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 ran the program ‘Trust and corruption in swedish municipalities’ financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
At the Ratio Institute, I was 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
2013 Visiting Scholar, CesIfo, Munich, Germany
2007-2014 Several Invited research visits, Harvard School of Public Health
2004 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (presently the Institute for Quantative Social Science), Harvard University.
REFEREE WORK
Social Science Quarterly, European Journal of Political Economy, European Sociological Review, Public Choice, American Political Science Review, Journal of Social Policy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND COURSE EVALUATIONS
Microeconomics (first year course), Public Economics (second year course) and Institutional Economics (second year course) taught with very good student evaluations.
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
Högskolepedagogik 10 credits, 2003.
Läroböcker
Den kapitalistiska Välfärdsstaten. Norstedts/Studentlitteratur (flera upplagor)
Modern mikroekonomi (Norstedts/Studentlitteratur) Flera upplagor, 2010-2022)
Blir vi sjuka av inkomstskillnader (Studentlitteratur, 2012)
Kursutveckling
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
Förtroendeuppdrag
Ledamot, Bertil Ohlin-institutets styrelse
Ledamot, Fores styrelse
Ledamot i Rådet för kommunalekonomisk forskning och utbildning (KEFU).
Ledamot, styrgruppen för CORS (länk)
PRISER/UTMÄRKELSER
Ratios utmärkelse till mänsklig blomstring 2024 (Länk)
Pedagogiskt pris 2011 och 2015 (Lunds universitet)