Kerstin Enflo

Kerstin Enflo is a Professor in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Her research focus on long-run regional growth as well as local labor markets. She has conducted analysis to assess the role of natural resources, the extent of the market, agglomeration economies, technical change and regional convergence. She is specifically interested in the role of historical place-based policies, such as infrastructure investments. She is also interested in the long-term evolution of regional inequality and has constructed regional GDPs per capita that go back to the 16th century.