Webinar by Lars Persson, Swedish Productivity Commission
June 17, 2026, 16-17 CEST
Participation via Webex: https://oenb.webex.com/oenb/j.php?MTID=m40593b975a3f5bb34f394caf54f467fc
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Abstract:
In autumn 2025, the Swedish Government’s Productivity Commission submitted its final report on how Sweden can once again become one of the countries with the highest productivity growth in the world, after a couple of decades of somewhat weaker performance.
In this presentation, Lars Persson, one of the members of the Swedish Productivity Commission, presents the Commission’s main conclusions. A central assessment was that Sweden fundamentally has strong conditions for robust productivity growth. Well-functioning institutions, efficiency-oriented norms, and competitive markets create pressure for structural transformation and incentives for entrepreneurship, education, work, investment, and infrastructure development. These factors are important explanations for the Commission’s positive overall assessment.
At the same time, in a rapidly changing global environment, there is significant scope for improvement. The Commission therefore proposed a number of reforms that, from a socioeconomic perspective, are expected to strengthen productivity. An important starting point is that reforms should be aimed at addressing fundamental market and regulatory failures.
The presentation will focus, among other things, on institutions and reforms that promote entrepreneurship, creative destruction, better coordination among public authorities, and greater long-termism in infrastructure investment, for example in electricity supply.
Year of publication: 2026
