Claes Bäckman
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and a guest researcher at Norges Bank.
I am an economist working on finance, housing, and macroeconomics. I use administrative data, surveys, and theoretical models to study how households make decisions about housing, mortgages, and investments. Recent work focuses on interest-only mortgages and the dynamics of housing markets, as well as on network effects in financial behavior.
My research interests are housing markets, household finance, mortgage markets, interest-only mortgages, and peer effects. See research, the YoHo project, resources for PhD students, and teaching.
I also write about AI, coding, research and housing on Substack, and I wrote a practical guide to Claude Code in VS Code for academic economists.