Lars Jonung is Professor emeritus at the Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden. He was Chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council 2012-2013 and Research Adviser 2000-2010 at DG ECFIN, European Commission, Brussels, where he focused on macroeconomic and financial issues related to the euro. He was previously Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and served as Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Carl Bildt, 1992-1994. Jonung's research concerns monetary and fiscal policies, financial crises and the history of economic thought. He has published in the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking as well as in other scientific journals. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1975. He has contributed to Swedish public debate for a long time.

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The COVID pandemic and public support for the euro
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- COVID-19 
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Sweden’s constitution decides its exceptional Covid-19 policy
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- COVID-19 
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Don’t do it again! The Swedish experience with negative central bank rates in 2015-2019
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Public support for the euro and trust in the ECB: The first two decades
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- EU institutions 
- Europe's nations and regions 
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Fiscal policy is no free lunch: Lessons from the Swedish fiscal framework for fiscal targeting
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- Macroeconomic policy 
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- Europe's nations and regions