Lars Frisell, Ph.D.
Research Department
Sveriges Riksbank
SE-103 37 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: + 46 8 787 02 75
Fax: + 46 8 21 05 31
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Fields

Political economy, informational economics, banking.

 

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, 2001.
M.Sc., Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University, 1999.
M.Sc., Economics and Business Administration, Stockholm School of Economics, 1996.
 

Work in Progress

 

 “State-Dependent Contagion Risk: Using Micro Data from Swedish Banks” (with Mia Holmfeldt, Ola Larsson, Malin Omberg, and Mattias Persson).

 

Working papers

 

"Governings the Governors: A Clinical Study of Central Banks" (with Kasper Roszbach and Giancarlo Spagnolo), Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 221 (March 2008) [Coverage in FT]
 

"The breakdown of authority", WZB Discussion Paper, SP II 2003-07, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.

Publications in refereed journals

 

"A Theory of Self-Fulfilling Political Expectations". Forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics [link to pdf]

 

“Eliciting Demand Information through Cheap Talk: An Argument in Favor of a Ban on Price Discrimination” (with Johan Lagerlöf). Economics Letters 99(3): 421-424

"A Model of Reputation in Cheap Talk" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 109 (2007): 49-70 (with Johan Lagerlöf).

 “Consulting Experts with Vested Interests: The Power of Benchmarking”, Economics of Governance, 6 (2), 2005, 113-123. [pdf - revised Dec2004]

"On the interplay of informational spillovers and payoff externalities", RAND Journal of Economics 34 (3), 2003, 582-592.

 

Referee

RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economic Theory  

 

Journal of Public Economics
  

Other publications

"Consolidation in the Swedish banking sector: A central bank perspective" (with Martin Noréus), Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review 3, 2002, 20-38.