Research

Work in progress

Health shocks, risk preferences and annuity choices (with Abigail Hurwitz and Michal Hodor)
Revise & Re-submit at Management Science

Cognitive ability and financial fraud victimization (with Paul Nystedt and Amedeus Malisa).

Revise & Re-submit at European Journal of Finance 

The M-shaped relationship between founder age and firm performance (with Lucia Naldi and Charlie Karlsson)

Revise & Re-submit at Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Labor market effects of increasing the early claiming age in a flexible pension system (with Oystein Herneas, Alireza Khoshghadam and Stefanie König).

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

*NEW* Hagen, Johannes, Laun, Lisa, Lucke, Charlotte and Palme, Mårten (2025) The Rising Income Gradient in Life Expectancy in Sweden over Six Decades,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2418145122
Media coverage: TT, Dagens Nyheter, Sveriges Radio Ekot, Aftonbladet, Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet, Göteborgsposten, TV4-Nyheterna, Dagens Medicin m fl. Full coverage list here.

Engström, Per, Hagen, Johannes, Khoshghadam, Alireza and Schneider, Andrea (2024) Effects of electronic cash registers on reported revenue  
International Tax and Public Finance, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-024-09844-x 

Engström, Per, Hagen, Johannes and Johansson, Edvard (2023) Estimating tax noncompliance among self-employed with evidence from pleasure boat registers
Small Business Economics, doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00749-3

Hagen, Johannes and Malisa, Amedeus (2022), Financial fraud and individual investment behavior,
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 203, Pages 593-626

Elinder, Mikael, Hagen, Johannes, Nordin, Mattias and Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny (2022), Who lacks pension knowledge, why and does it matter? Evidence from Swedish Retirement savers ,
Public Finance Review, Volume 50, Issue 4, 375-435, Swedish version here

Hagen, Johannes and Malmberg, Hannes (2022), A cofinancing model for disability insurance and local government employers,
Social Policy & Administration,  https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12810   

Hagen, Johannes, Malisa, Amedeus, Post Thomas (2022), Trading behavior of Swedish retirement investors during the COVID-19 pandemic,
Review of Behavioral Finance, doi: 10.1108/RBF-09-2021-0183 

Hagen, Johannes (2022) Partial recall: Differences between actual and self-reported annuitization decisions in Sweden
Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Volume 21, Issue 3,  371-404

Backman, Hagen, Naldi, Kekezi and Wallin (2021), In the eye of the storm: Entrepreneurs and well-being during the COVID-19 crisis,
Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, doi: 10.1177/10422587211057028 

Hagen, Hallberg and Sjögren Lindquist (2021), A nudge to quit? The effect of a change in pension information on annuitization, labor supply and retirement choices among older workers in Sweden,
The Economic Journal,  Volume 132, Issue 643, April 2022, Pages 1060–1094

Engström, Hagen, Forsell and Stefansson (2019) Increasing the take-up of the Housing allowance among Swedish Pensioners: A field experiment,
International Tax and Public Finance, 26, 1353-1382 (2019)

Hagen, Johannes (2018) The effects of increasing the normal retirement age on health care utilization and mortality,
Journal of Population Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 193-234

Engström, Per and Hagen, Johannes (2017) Income underreporting among the self-employed: a permanent income approach,
European Economic Review, Volume 92, February 2017, Pages 92-109 

Hagen, Johannes (2017) Pension principles in the Swedish pension system,
Scandinavian Economic History Review, Volume 62, Issue 1, Pages 28--51 

Hagen, Johannes (2015) The determinants of annuitization: evidence from Sweden,
International Tax and Public Finance, Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 549--578