Research Leader for the theme ”Demographically Based Futures Studies" and professor at Stockholm university. His PhD dissertation year 1990 was The effects of external ownership—A study of linkages and branch plant location.
His publications include:
”Age structure effects on economic growth–Swedish evidence", Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1994;
"Problems of Space-Time Coordination: A Key to the Understanding of Multiplant Firms," Progress in Human Geography, 1995;
"Understanding attraction - Co-operation and human intentionality as determinants of spatial interaction and corporate location", Environment and Planning A, 1995;
"Age Structure and Inflation-A Wicksellian Interpretation of OECD Data". Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1998, (with Thomas Lindh);
"Age Structure Effects and Growth in the OECD, 1950--90", Journal of Population Economics, 1999 (with Thomas Lindh);
”Agglomeration and firm performance-Economies of scale, localisation and urbanisation among Swedish export firms”, Environment and Planning A, 2000. (with Malmberg, A. & Lundequist, P);
”The hidden pulse of history”, Scandinavian Journal of History, 2000 (with Lena Sommestad), “Bostadsrätten i ett nytt millennium”, Forskningsrapport 2000:3, Institutet för bostadsforskning, Uppsala universitet, 2000 (Malmberg, Bo & Lena Sommestad, red.),
”Befolkningsutveckling och välfärd”, Rapport 8 från regionalpolitiska utredningen, Fritzes, 2000 (with Martin Korpi),
”40-talisternas uttåg – en ESO-rapport om 2000-talets demografiska utmaningar”, Ds 2000:13, 2000 (with Thomas Lindh).