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, Lanot, Gauthier (2026) "Public pensions in the age of automation" (R&R)
Gustafsson, Johan, Prettner, Klaus (2026) "A Psychology-Based Theory of Social Media Use"
Gustafsson, Johan, Prettner, Klaus, Xu, Fei (2026) "Anti-corruption policy and economic growth"
Work-in-progress
"Strategic Wage Bargaining and the Optimal Timing of Income Taxation", with Tomas Sjögren
"Should robots pay our pensions?", with Gauthier Lanot and Florian von Muschwitz
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, Applied Economics Letters (2), Economic Modelling (2), FinanzArchiv/European Journal of Public Finance, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Dynamics (3), Panoeconomicus.
Grants (>100 000 Euro)
2026 - Funding the welfare state in the age of automation and population aging (P26-0248) Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse. Together with Gauthier Lanot (PI), and Klaus Prettner. 1,000,000 SEK.
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
2026
The Association of Southern-European Economic Theorists (ASSET) conference (In November), 9th Swedish conference in economics (In November), WU Vienna seminar presentation, Annual meeting of the Finnish Economic Association.
2025
4th CORA conference, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) seminar presentation, EEA European Economic Association Congress, RES Annual conference (accepted for presentation, unable to attend), University of Konstanz seminar presentation, University of Graz seminar presentation
2024
8th Swedish conference in economics, University of Strathclyde seminar presentation, AERNA conference, EAERE conference (accepted for presentation, unable to attend), PET - Public economic theory conference
2023
29th Ulvön conference, ESSCA Lyon seminar, 7th Swedish conference in economics
2022
PET - Public economic theory conference, T2M - Theories and methods in macroeconomics, RCEA conference on Recent Developments in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Luleå University of Technology seminar presentation
2021
EUFin conference: Current Practices and Future Challenges , Internal seminar USBE, CESifo Area Conference on Public Economics
2020
National Tax Association Annual conference, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research at Umeå University seminar presentation
2019
Paris Summer School (Macroeconomics), PhD workshop in Public Economics at Uppsala University
2017
Hav- och vattenmyndigheten, invited discussant on recreational fishing survey design