Peer-reviewed publications
Gustafsson, Johan (2025) "Favorable tax treatment of older workers in general equilibrium", Macroeconomic Dynamics
Gustafsson, Johan, Ma, Xiaofei, Vesterberg, Mattias, Maih, Junior (2025) "Macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy under an energy supply shock", Energy Policy
Gustafsson, Johan, Holmberg, Johan (2023) "Permanent and transitory earnings dynamics and lifetime income inequality in Sweden", Labour Economics
Gustafsson, Johan (2023) "Public pension reform with ill-informed individuals", Economic Modelling
Gustafsson, Johan (2022) "Public pension policy and the equity-efficiency trade-off", The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Working papers
Gustafsson, Johan, Prettner, Klaus, Xu, Fei (2025) "Anti-corruption policy and economic growth"
Gustafsson, Johan, Lanot, Gauthier (2025) "Public pensions in the age of automation"
Gustafsson, Johan, Sjögren, Tomas (2024) "Can Labor Market Imperfections Motivate the Implementation of an Income-Based Pension System?"
(Selected) work-in-progress
"Climate policy and gender inequality", with X. Ma, M. T. Benkhodja, and Junior Maih [Draft available upon request]
"Should robots pay our pensions?", with G. Lanot and Florian von Muschwitz
"Microentrepreneurship and wage bargaining over the credit cycle"
"Gossiping, Social Media Use, and their Side Effects on Economic Growth", with Klaus Prettner
Vulgarization
Gustafsson, Johan (2023) "Därför måste vi bli bättre på att prata om ojämlikhet" - Recension av Jesper Roine: Därför är ojämlikheten viktig - om rika, fattiga, och alla däremellan, Ekonomisk Debatt (Journal of the Swedish Economic Association) nr 8 2023.
Människors okunskap kan få pensionssystemet att halta
Förstår människor hur pensionssystemet fungerar?
De synar skatters påverkan på egenföretagande
Referee
Applied Economics, Economic Modelling, FinanzArchiv/European Journal of Public Finance, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Dynamics (2), Panoeconomicus.
Grants (>100 000 Euro)
2021 - Wallander stipend (W21-0036) Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse. 1,700,000 SEK.
2021 - ”Economic policy, Social Insurance and Self-employment”. (P21-0179) Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse. Together with Johan Holmberg, Gauthier Lanot (PI), and Thomas Aronsson. 2,400,000 SEK.
Visiting positions
2025, April, Visiting researcher at Vienna School of Economics and Business
2023, May - Visiting researcher at ESSCA School of Management in Lyon.
Conferences and invited presentations
2025 WU Vienna - seminar presentation (scheduled - November)
2025 4th Conference on Robots and Automation - CORA (scheduled, September)
2025 Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) - seminar presentation (scheduled - September)
2025 EEA European Economic Association Congress (accepted for presentation)
2025 RES Annual conference (accepted for presentation, unable to attend)
2025 University of Konstanz - seminar presentation
2025 University of Graz - seminar presentation
2024 8th Swedish conference in economics
2024 University of Strathclyde - seminar presentation
2024 AERNA conference
2024 EAERE conference (accepted for presentation, unable to attend)
2024 PET - Public economic theory conference
2023 29th Ulvön conference
2023 ESSCA Lyon seminar
2022 7th Swedish conference in economics
2022 PET - Public economic theory conference
2022 T2M - Theories and methods in macroeconomics
2022 RCEA conference on Recent Developments in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
2022 Luleå University of Technology - seminar presentation
2021 EUFin conference: Current Practices and Future Challenges
2021 Internal seminar USBE
2021 CESifo Area Conference on Public Economics
2020 National Tax Association Annual conference
2020 Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research at Umeå University - seminar presentation
2020 Internal seminar USBE
2019 Paris Summer School (Macroeconomics)
2019 PhD workshop in Public Economics at Uppsala University
2019 Internal seminar USBE
2017 Hav- och vattenmyndigheten, invited discussant on recreational fishing survey design