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 The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Population Economics, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, and International Tax and Public Finance.  He is an expert on the Swedish pension system and takes active part in the national public pension debate. 

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 involved in two research projects at JIBS: “Ageing and Entrepreneurship”  (funded by Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs stiftelse) and "Digitilization of Pension Claiming in Sweden" (funded by Familjen Kamprads Stiftelse). He is also involved in an international, EU-funded research project (JPI, Horizon 2020) called “Unequal ageing: life-expectancy, care needs and reforms to the welfare state” led by Professor Antoine Bozio (Paris School of Economics). 

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

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