Per-Olof Bjuggren
Biography
Per-Olof Bjuggren has a Master of Political Science from Lund University and took his PhD in Economics at Lund University in 1986. The PhD thesis is about vertical integration in the Swedish pulp and paper industry. A new theoretical paradigm, the transaction cost approach, is used. It is one of first studies that use this approach empirically. In 1994 he was appointed associate professor of Economics at Linköping University. Since July 1995 he is Associate Professor of Economics at Jönköping International Business School.
His own research includes studies in the fields of industrial organization, law and economics and corporate governance. He has published articles in journals such as the International Review of Law and Economics, Small Business Economics, Geneva Papers of Risk and Insurance and Family Business Review. Several articles have also been published in refereed international books. He has together with Arne M Andersson and Olle Ohlsson published industrial organization textbooks (in Swedish).
Research
Corporate governance, theory of the firm, family business and media.
His dissertation was about vertical integration in the Swedish pulp and paper industry. A transaction cost approach was used. Since then he has written a number of articles about this subject. A recent research project within this area is the regional impact on the choice of vertical integration.
Law and economics is an area, in which he for a long time has been internationally involved. He has published several articles in international journals and he is since many years a member in both the European Association of Law and Economics and the American Association of Law and Economics. His last project within this area was about the ownership of Gotha Canal.
He is also doing research about innovation and structural change within the commercial media sector, and he is part of an European network looking at corporate governance in different European countries.
Teaching
Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, Public Sector Economics.