[cid:image001.jpg@01DCF1E4.79F5ED70] Insights from the Swedish Government's Productivity Commission report: Institutions, reforms and creative destruction Webinar with Lars Persson, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)<https://www.ifn.se/en/researchers/ifn-researcher/lars-persson/> Hello, The Office of the Austrian Productivity Board (Produktivitätsrat) invites you to an online Seminar with Lars Persson, Deputy Director at IFN and member of the Swedish Productivity Commission, on 17 June 2026. 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. Host em. o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Christoph Badelt, Chair of the Austrian Productivity Board Date Wednesday, 17 June 2026 | 16:00 - 17:00 CEST Venue The event is planned online via Webex. Webex-Link https://oenb.webex.com/oenb/j.php?MTID=m40593b975a3f5bb34f394caf54f467fc Conference language English We look forward to having you join us at the Seminar. Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues or others who might be interested. If applicable, we would also appreciate it if you could inform colleagues involved in the work of your national productivity board. Yours sincerely, Austrian Productivity Board If you do have any questions or want to notify us of any address changes, please contact: E-Mail: office@produktivitaetsrat.at<mailto:office@produktivitaetsrat.at> Imprint<https://www.produktivitaetsrat.at/en/service/imprint.html> | Data Protection<https://www.produktivitaetsrat.at/en/service/data-protection.html>
