December 2008

Current position:	Professor in Economics, Uppsala University
Phone:	026-420 6538, 018-471 1126
Fax:	026-420 6501, 018-471 1478
E-mail:	Matz.Dahlberg@ibf.uu.se, Matz.Dahlberg@nek.uu.se
Internet:	http://www.ibf.uu.se, http://www.nek.uu.se
Degrees:	Professor in Economics, Uppsala University,  2008. Ph.D. in Economics, Uppsala University, 1997
Date of birth:	April 4, 1966
Family:	Erika, Zakarias (born 1999), Henrietta (born 2004)

Ph.D. thesis
"Essays on Estimation Methods and Local Public Economics", Economic Studies 31, Uppsala University, 1997

Articles published in international scientific journals
[P1] "The Revenues-Expenditures Nexus: Panel Data Evidence from Swedish Municipalities", Applied Eonomics 30, 1379-1386, 1998. (With Eva Johansson)

[P2] "Are Local Governments Governed by Forward Looking Decision Makers? An Investigation of Spending Patterns in Swedish Municipalities", Journal of Urban Economics 44, 254-271, 1998. (With Tomas Lindström)

[P3] "Small Sample Properties of Jackknife IV and LIML Estimators: Experiments with Weak Instruments", Journal of Applied Econometrics 14, 69-88, 1999. (With Sören Blomquist)

[P4] "An Examination of the Dynamic Behavior of Local Governments using GMM Bootstrapping Methods", Journal of Applied Econometrics 15:4, 401-416, 2000. (With Eva Johansson)

[P5] "On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments", American Political Science Review 96:1, 2002. (With Eva Johansson)

[P6] "The Effects of Grants and Wages on Municipal Labour Demand", Labour Economics 11, 315-334, 2004. (With Pål Bergström and Eva Mörk)

[P7] "Direct Displacement Effects of Labour Market Programmes", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107, 475-494, 2005. (With Anders Forslund)

[P8] "Public Employment and the Double Role of Bureaucrats", Public Choice 126, 387-404, 2006. (With Eva Mörk)

[P9] "The Case Against JIVE: A Comment", Journal of Applied Econometrics 21, 839-841, 2006. (With Sören Blomquist)

[P10] "Do Politicians' Preferences Correspond to those of the Voters? An Investigation of Political Representation", Public Choice 130, 137-162, 2007. (With Eva Mörk and Hanna Ågren)

[P11] "On the Performance of the Sargan Test in the Presence of Measurement Errors in Dynamic Panels", Applied Economics Letters 15, 349-353, 2008. (With Eva Mörk and Per Tovmo)

[P12] "Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 70, 129-153, 2008. (With Magnus Gustavsson)

[P13] "Is there a 'Race-to-the-Bottom' in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels: Evidence from a Policy Intervention", Journal of Public Economics 92, 1193-1209, 2008. (With Karin Edmark)

[P14] "Using a Discontinuous Grant Rule to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending", Journal of Public Economics 92, 2320-2335, 2008. (With Eva Mörk, Jørn Rattsø, and Hanna Ågren) 

Other publications in English

[O1] Book review: Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance: The Scandinavian Perspective, Jørn Rattsø (Ed.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA, 1998. Regional Science and Urban Economics (31)1, 119-125, 2001. 

[O2] "Swedish Local Government: Is there a Bailout Problem", in Per Molander (ed.) Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. (With Jürgen von Hagen)

[O3] "Swedish Economic National Report", in Robert Påhlsson (ed.) Yearbook for Nordic Tax Research 2005: Local Taxation, Nordisk Skattevitenskapelig Forskningsråd, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2005. (With Hanna Ågren).

[O4] "Antidepressants and the Suicide Rate: Is there Really a Connection?", in Björn Lindgren and Michael  Grossman (Eds) Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol. 16 - Substance Use: Individual Behavior, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics, Elsevier, Oxford, England, 2005. (With Douglas Lundin).

Unpublished research
[U1] "Mixed Logit Estimation of the Value of Travel Time", (With S. Algers, P. Bergström and J. Lindqvist Dillén, Uppsala 1998, Working Paper 1998:15)

[U2] "Sluggishness, Endogeneity, and the Demand for local Public Services", (With Johanna Jacob, Uppsala 2000, Working Paper 2000:17)

[U3], "The Intertemporal Spending Behavior of Local Governments: A Comparative Analysis of the Scandinavian Countries", (With Lars-Erik Borge and Per Tovmo, Uppsala 2001, Working Paper 2001:10). Under revision for Economics and Politics.

[U4], "Migration and Local Public Services", (With Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala 2001, Working Paper 2001:12), under revision for Regional Science and Urban Economics.

[U5] "Relaxing the IIA Assumption in Locational Choice Models: A Comparison Between Conditional Logit, Mixed Logit, and Multinomial Probit Models", (With Matias Eklöf, Uppsala 2003, Working Paper 2003:9), under revision for Journal of Applied Econometrics.

[U6] "On the Size of Political Jurisdictions: An Examination of Preference Matching", (With Eva Mörk and Hanna Ågren, Uppsala 2005, mimeo).

[U7] "The Effects of Work Requirements on Welfare Participation", 2007, mimeo, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (With Kajsa Johansson and Eva Mörk).

[U8] "Is there an Election Cycle in Public Employment? Separating Time Effects from Election Year Effects", (With Eva Mörk, Uppsala 2008, Working Paper 2008:4)

[U9] "Intergovernmental grants and Bureaucratic Power", mimeo Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (With H Lundqvist and E Mörk)

Books
Fattigdom i folkhemmet: Från socialbidrag till självförsörjning, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008 (With Karin Edmark, Jörgen Hansen and Eva Mörk).

Articles published in Swedish (titles translated into English)
[S1] "Statsbidragens och lönernas effekter på den kommunala arbetskraftsefterfrågan" (The Effects of Intergovernmental Grants and Wages on Municipal Labour Demand), Ekonomisk Debatt 3, 151-161, 1999. (With P. Bergström and E. Johansson)

[S2] "Om regeringars röstköpsbeteende" (On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments), Ekonomisk Debatt 4, 305-316, 2000 (With Eva Johansson)

[S3] "Direkta undanträngningseffekter av arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder" (Direct Displacement Effects of Labour Market Programmes), Ekonomisk Debatt 8, 725-737, 2000 (With Anders Forslund)

[S4] ”Dags att tänka om i socialbidragssystemet” (Time to rethink the system for social assistance), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 1, 3-5, 2001. (With Eva Johansson)

[S5] "De arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärderna – en lyckad medicin?" (Active Labor Market Programmes – Do They Work?), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 4, 235-237, 2001. (With Eva Johansson)

[S6] "Inkomstfördelnig och optimal politik" (Income Distribution and Optimal Politics), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 1, 3-4, 2002. (With P Braunerhjelm and Eva Johansson)

[S7] "Högre utbildning och forskning" (Higher Education and Research), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 2, 107-108, 2002. (With Eva Johansson)

[S8] "Ja må de leva uti hundrade år (och mer därtill)!", editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 6, 503-504, 2002 (With Eva Johansson)

[S9] "Ekonomisk Debatt i slutet av dess tredje decennium" (Ekonomisk Debatt at the End of its Third Decade), Ekonomisk Debatt, 6, 529-534, 2002. (With Jerker Holm and Eva Johansson)

[S10] "Släpp dataseten fria!" (Release the Datasets!), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 8, 663-664, 2002 (With Eva Johansson)

[S11] "Släpp dataseten fria! Slutreplik" (Release the Datasets! Reply), Ekonomisk Debatt 1, 53-55, 2003 (With Eva Mörk)

[S12] "Finns det ett bailoutproblem i Sverige?" (Is there a Bailout Problem in Sweden?), in P. Molander (ed) Staten och kommunerna, SNS Förlag, 2003. (With Jürgen von Hagen)

[S13] "Har kommunens storlek någon betydelse för den lokala demokratin?" (Does the Size of the Municipality Matter for the Local Democracy?), Ekonomisk Debatt 5, 33-47, 2005 (With Eva Mörk and Hanna Ågren)

[S14] "Har svenska kommuner mjuka budgetrestriktioner?" (Have Swedish Municipalities Soft Budget Constraints?), Ekonomisk Debatt 5, 60-76, 2005 (With Per Pettersson-Lidbom)

[S15] "Kommunanställda byråkraters dubbla roll", (The Double Role of Bureaucrats at the Municipal Level), Arbetsmarknad och arbetsliv, 11:3, 171-177, 2005 (With Eva Mörk)

[S16] "Socialbidragsreformer och barns välfärd" (Welfare Reforms and the Well-Being of Children), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 6, 3-4, 2007

[S17] "Aktivering av socialbidragstagare i Sverige", Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 2, 277-289, 2008. (With Eva Mörk)

[S18] "Valår och den kommunala politiken", Ekonomisk Debatt, 5, 2008. (With Eva Mörk)

[S19] "Vem bestämmer i kommunerna?" (Who is the Decision-Maker in Swedish Local Governments?), editorial, Ekonomisk Debatt 6, 3-4, 2008

Research grants received

• "Röstningsbeteende  och effektivitet i kommunal sektor: Mikrobaserade studier", HSFR, 1.400.000  kronor; for the years 1999-2002 (with Sören Blomquist and Eva Johansson)
• "Hur bör relationen mellan staten och kommunerna vara utformad? Ett forskningsprogram", Vetenskapsrådet, 6.046.000 kronor; for the years 2003-2005 (with Sören Blomquist, Eva Johansson and Henrik Jordahl)
• "Statsbidragens betydelse för den primärkommunala ekonomin", Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, 1.000.000 kronor; for the years 2005-2006 (with Eva Mörk and Hanna Ågren)
• "Fiscal Federalism, Taxes and Public Expenditures", Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, 2.920.000; for the years 2008-2010 (with Sören Blomquist)
• "Socialbidragstagande", FAS (With Karin Edmark and Eva Mörk)

Editorial duties

Editor for Ekonomisk Debatt, Journal of the Swedish Economic Association, 2001-02
Member, Editorial Board, Ekonomisk Debatt, 2007-

Assignment as opponent on thesis work/member of graduation committées

• Member of graduation committée on Mattias Haraldsson's Ph.D. thesis "Essays on Transport Economics", Uppsala University, June 1, 2007.
• Faculty opponent on Anna Nilsson’s Licentiate thesis "Two Essays on Crime", Stockholm University, February 6, 2004.
• Faculty opponent on Tobias Nilsson’s Licentiate thesis "Governmental Inefficiency and Campaign Contributions", Stockholm University, September 12, 2002.
• Member of graduation committée on Linda Andersson’s Ph.D. thesis "Essays on Job Turnover, Productivity and State-Local Finance", Umeå University, May 23, 2002.
• Faculty opponent on Sven-Olov Daunfeld’s Ph.D. thesis "Essays on Intra-Household Allocation and Policy Regime Shifts", Umeå University, November 23, 2001.
• Faculty opponent on Anna Brink’s Licentiate thesis "The Break-Up of Municipalities", Göteborg University, May 31, 2001.
• Discussant on parts of Frida Widmalm’s Ph.D. thesis manuscript (Final seminar), Uppsala University, January 20, 2000.
• Discussant on parts of Per Åsberg’s Ph.D. thesis manuscript (Final seminar), Uppsala University 1998.

Referee experience
American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economic Inquiry, International Tax and Public Finance, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, CESifo/MIT Press, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Applied Economics, European Economic Review, National Tax Journal, The American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science 

Lecturing

1993-1996:	Assistant teacher, first level macro, Uppsala University
1997-2000:	Joint responsibility for the Ph.D.-students' seminar series, Uppsala University
1998:	Applied econometrics (D-level), Dept. of Economics, Uppsala University
1999:	Applied econometrics (B-level), Dept. of Statistics, Uppsala University
1999:	Job creation, job destruction (Ph.D. course), Uppsala University
1999- :	Supervision of thesis-work (C- and D-level) , Uppsala University
2001:	Applied econometrics (C-level), Dept. of Economics, University College Gävle
2001:	Social problems in the Swedish economy (Ph.D. course), Uppsala University
2002- :	The economics of social problems (D-level), Uppsala University
2003- :	Public economics (B-level), Uppsala University

Supervision of Ph.D. students
Main supervisor:

• Hanna Ågren (defended Ph.D. thesis on November 11, 2005)
• Karin Edmark (defended Ph.D. thesis on September 24, 2007)
• Heléne Lundqvist
• Ulrika Vikman

Co-advisor:

• Joakim Jansson (defended Ph.D. thesis on October 18, 2002)
• Mikael Carlsson (defended Ph.D. thesis on October 25, 2002)
• Ann Öberg (defended Ph.D. thesis on May 23, 2003)
• Magnus Lundin (defended Ph.D. thesis on October 31, 2003)
• Åsa Ahlin (defended Ph.D. thesis on February 11, 2005)
• Lars Lindvall (defended Ph.D. thesis on June 7, 2006)
• Mattias Nordin

Pedagogical training

• Facilitator at the 2004 Swedish Summer Institute for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, arranged by the Council for the Renewal of Higher Education, Åkerby.
• The First Swedish Winter Institute for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, arranged by the National Agency for Higher Education, Stockholm, February 10-11, 2002.
• The First Swedish Summer Institute for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, arranged by the National Agency for Higher Education and The Society of Living Pedagogues, Öland, June 4-9, 2000.
• Course in presentation technique, Uppsala University, March 23, 1994.
• Introductory course in pedagogy, Uppsala University, February 21-23, 1994. 

Other positions, appointments and awards

• Director of Master Program in Economics at Uppsala University, 2006-
• Finanspolitiska Forskningsinstitutet, Member of Board, 2005-2006.
• Jämställdhetsombud, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2005-2006
• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Reviewer of application, 2006
• Reviewer for two positions as lecturer at University College Gävle
• Visiting scholar, CESIfo, Munich, January-February 2006
• The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize for 2004, awarded at the 2004 IIPF conference in Milan, Italy
• Myrdalspriset (Gunnar Myrdal price for best paper in Ekonomisk Debatt in 2000)
• IIPF Young Scholars Award, awarded at the 1998 IIPF conference in Cordoba, Argentina
• Member of the board, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1999-
• Research associate, Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), 1997–
• Research member, CESifo, 2006-
• Acting director of graduate studies, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2001-02
• Organized conference "From Welfare to Work" in Stockholm in May, 2007 (with Eva Mörk, for The Economic Council of Sweden)
• Member of scientific committee for the 2005 IIPF conference at Jeju Island, South Korea
• Member of the scientific committee for democracy research at the Swedish Research Council, 2004
• Member of organizing committee, Nordic Econometric Meeting, Uppsala, May 1999
• Visiting scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January-July 1995