Magnus Henrekson, born 1958, is a professor of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

and between 2005 and 2020 he was president of the

Research Institute of Industrial Economics The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (in Swedish Institutet för Näringslivsforskning, IFN) is a private independent research foundation based in Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Magnus Henrekson is the managing director of the Institute ...

(IFN) in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2001 and 2009 he was Jacob Wallenberg Professor of Economics at the

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with ...

. Henrekson was as president by Fredrik Sjöholm, formerly professor of International Economics at Lund University. Prof. Henrekson will continue to be active as a researcher at IFN. Henrekson's research is empirically oriented. He got his Ph.D. from the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

in 1990. His dissertation dealt with empirical determinants of public sector growth. Since the turn of the new millennium, his primary research focus is entrepreneurship economics and the institutional determinants of the business climate. In collaboration with Steven J. Davis at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

he has developed methods to test whether pertinent rules of the game have differential effects on different firms depending on their age, size, industry, ownership structure and capital intensity. Throughout the 1990s he conducted several projects aimed at explaining cross-country growth differences, and more specifically he also tried to explain Sweden's slow growth relative to other countries from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s. In all the above fields he has published extensively both in international journals and in Sweden. Since the late 1980s he has been involved in the Swedish policy debate. He was a member of the SNS Economic Policy Group in 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2006. Since 2006 he is a member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which prom ...

(IVA).Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences: Henrekson, Magnus
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Henrekson, Magnus Swedish economists University of Gothenburg alumni Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences 1958 births Living people