John is Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. John is also a serving member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and from 2013 to 2016 was chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council. His research covers areas of dynamic public finance, social mobility, growth and climate change.
Selected publications
- Experiences from the Swedish Crisis in the 1990s – An Opportunity for a Complete Makeover
- The Fossil Episode
- Climate Policy
- Should Developing Countries Constrain Resource-Income Spending? A Quantitative Analysis of Oil Income in Uganda
- Environmental Macroeconomics
- Impacts of climate mitigation strategies in the energy sector on global land use and carbon balance
- The Consequences of Uncertainty: Climate Sensitivity and Economic Sensitivity to the Climate
- A Global CO2 price – Necessary and sufficient
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Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity
