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Nordic Economic Policy Review 2025

Authors and Editors


Editors: Roope Uusitalo and Antti Kauhanen
Technical Editor: Lasse Leinonen
Text Editor: Tam McTurk

Introduction
Roope Uusitalo, Professor, University of Helsinki
Antti Kauhanen, Research Director, ETLA Economic Research

Pattern bargaining as a means to coordinate wages in the Nordic countries
Lars Calmfors, Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University
Comment by Steinar Holden, Professor, University of Oslo 
Comment by Essi Eerola, Advisor to the Board, Bank of Finland

How Extension of Collective Agreements Affects Wages
Antti Kauhanen, Research Director, ETLA Economic Research
Comment by Elin Svarstad, Researcher, Fafo Research Foundation
Comment by Torbjorn Hållö, Chief Economist, LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation)

Public Sector Wages
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen, Professor, Aarhus University
Mette Ejrnæs, Professor, Aarhus University
Comment by Nils Karlson, Economist, Ratio Institute
Comment by Antti Koskela, Chief Economist, Tehy (The Union of Health and Social Care Services)

Changes in union density in the Nordic countries
Anders Kjellberg, Professor Emeritus, Lund University
Comment by Petri Böckerman, Research Economist, The Labour Institute for Economic Research
Comment by Mikkel Nørlem Hermansen, Head of Division, Danish Ministry of Finance

Technological Development, Market Power and (The Role Of) Unions
Harald Dale-Olsen, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
Comment by Per Skedinger, Research Fellow, The Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Comment by Alexander Willen, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics