Johannes Hagen

Associate Professor
Director of Studies
Economics , Jönköping International Business School
PhD in Economics

Johannes Hagen is an Associate Professor in Economics at JIBS since 2017. He has a PhD in Economics from Uppsala University (defended in March 2016).

Hagen conducts research within the area of Public Economics with a focus on retirement and pensions. He has published several scientific articles in well-ranked international journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Population Economics, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, and International Tax and Public Finance.  

He is a leading expert on the Swedish pension system and actively participates in the national pension policy debate. His policy work has been published in various outlets, including SNS, Ekonomisk Debatt, and the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF) and recently served as an expert in the government investigation of the pension fee (SOU 2024:04).

Hagen is affiliated with the Uppsala Center For Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Studies (CEnSE), the Global Labor Organization (GLO), Institute for Evaluation of Labor Market and Education Policy (IFAU). He is also a Research Fellow at Netspar.

Hagen is currently the project leader of three research projects at JIBS: “Ageing and Entrepreneurship”  (funded by Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs stiftelse), "Digitilization of Pension Claiming in Sweden" (funded by Familjen Kamprads Stiftelse) and ) and "Digitalization of the Public Sector: Innovations in Pension Data and Tax Reporting" (financed by The Hamrin Foundation).

Hagen currently teaches Public Economics in the Applied Economics and Data Analysis master’s program, as well as Intermediate Microeconomics at Bachelor's level. He has also taught a variety of courses at JU, including Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomic Principles, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, and Samhällsekonomi.

More information can be found on Hagen's personal webpage:

https://sites.google.com/view/johannes-hagen/