Dr. Viktor Skyrman
Visiting Researcher
Contact: viktor.skyrman@gmail.com
 

Viktor Skyrman is researching European industrial policy and financial market regulation, including how to finance the green transformation and structural development. He is affiliated to Uppsala University and European University Institute.

Research areas:

• Financial market regulation
• Industrial policies, focusing on the European Union
• Financialization

Education

PhD degree in Business Administration (Stockholm School of Economics)
Research visits at King’s College London and the University of Liverpool
Master’s degree in Economics, Linköping University
Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Linköping University

Publications/forthcoming

Raza, W., Schlager, C., Soder, M., Skyrman, V. (2025, forthcoming) Progressive Industrial Policy for the Twin Transformation.  

Skyrman, V., Hermelin, B., Wennberg, K., Arora-Jonsson, S. & Haikola, S. (2025, forthcoming). Mission-Based Industrial Policies, Green Reindustrialization and Its Discontents: the Uneven Distribution of Risks and Rewards in Regional Development. Special Issue, Regional Studies.

Skyrman, V. & Endörfer, R. (2025/2026, forthcoming) Industrial Policy, Progressive Derisking, and the Financing of Europe’s Green Transformation.

Skyrman, V., Kellokumpu, V., Hostad Løding, T., & Møller Stahl, R. (2026, forthcoming) Industrial Policy, Green Austerity and Financial Derisking in the Nordic Growth Models.

Skyrman, V. (2024) Industrial Policy, Progressive Derisking, and the Financing of Europe’s Green Transition. Working Paper, The Austrian Foundation for Development Research.

Skyrman, V. (2024) Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation, New Political Economy, 29:1, 144-158.

Skyrman, V. (2024). The Financialization of the Swedish Growth Model: Four Essays on Capitalist Regulation and Institutional Change. (Doctoral dissertation, Stockholm School of Economics).