Articles in refereed international journals
"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)

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

"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)

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

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

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

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

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

"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)

"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)

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

"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)

"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
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. 

"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)

"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).

"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).

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

Articles in Swedish
"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)

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

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

"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)

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

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

"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)

"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).

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

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

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

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