Broadly defined, the economists at IBF conduct research within the areas of real estate, housing and urban economics. Specific questions that they study within real estate and housing economics are related to, e.g., rental and property market dynamics, property valuation, assessment, taxation and investment performance, residential rent control, willingness-to-pay for non-marketed amenities (hedonic price estimations), effects of the Swedish housing allowance system on crowded housing, and effects of housing policies on household formation and young people's housing career. Within urban economics, examples of research topics studied are tipping points and the dynamics of segregation, the effects of ethnic heterogeneity on natives' preferences for redistribution and on the growth of anti-immigrant parties, the wage gap between immigrants and natives, and the Importance of politicians’ characteristics for political decision-making. The economic research at IBF is mainly empirical in character, predominantly based on modern microeconometric methods applied on very rich, micro-level, register data. The economists at IBF have very good connections to other economic research environments, e.g. the Department of Economics at Uppsala University, the Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation in Uppsala and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH. They also collaborate with researchers in other disciplines, e.g. with political scientist at the Department of Government at Uppsala University and at SIPA at Columbia University and with sociologists at the Linnaeus University.

I nationalekonomigruppen ingår följande forskare/doktorander:

Matz Dahlberg, professor
Rune Wigren, professor emeritus
Bo Söderberg, Associate Professor of Real Estate Economics
Cecilia Enström Öst, Assistant Professor in Economics
Michihito Ando, Ph.D. candidate
Ina Blind, Ph.D. candidate
Tove Eliasson, Ph.D. candidate