Björn Thor
Arnarson

International economist at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen. I study global value chains, innovation and knowledge spillovers, using firm-to-firm trade data linked to Danish and Swedish employer–employee registers.

Icelandic, living in Sweden · Affiliated researcher, Lund University · CESifo affiliate

bth@rff.dk CV (PDF)
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Current research

Working papers and work in progress. With abstracts →

Publications

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News & talks

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20 November 2026
OECD LIFT seminar, Paris · LIFT: Leveraging Inter-Firm Transactions, the OECD network on firm-to-firm data
29 September 2026
ROCKWOOL Foundation Annual Internal Workshop, Berlin
10–12 September 2026
European Trade Study Group (ETSG), Exeter
24–25 August 2026
Scientific Workshop on Productivity, German Council of Economic Experts and DIW Berlin, Berlin
25–26 June 2026
Danish International Economics Workshop (DIEW), Aarhus
15–17 May 2026
Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference (RMET), a FREIT conference, Banff
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September 2026
Talk
Presented “Growing Together and Apart” at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) in Exeter.
August 2026
Talk
Presented “R&D Employment and Transmission in Trade and MNE Networks” at the Scientific Workshop on Productivity, organised by the German Council of Economic Experts with DIW Berlin.
July 2026
Visit
Research visit to LMU Munich.
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The Øresund region

The Øresund Bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen at dusk One labour market across the strait Much of my research uses Danish and Swedish register data linked across the border, and the opening of the bridge as a natural experiment. Read more →

Photo: Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0