The Office of the Austrian Productivity Board (Produktivitätsrat) invites you to an online
Seminar
with Lars Persson, Deputy Director at IFN and member of theSwedishProductivity Commission,on17 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
We look forward to having you join us at the Seminar.Please feel free to
share this invitationwith 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
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