Henric Häggqvist
Researcher at Department of Economic History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 30
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 365 78 22
- E-mail:
- Henric.Haggqvist@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Researcher at Department of Economic History; Uppsala Centre for Business History
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 365 78 22
- E-mail:
- henric.haggqvist@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
75120 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-1245-0511
Short presentation
I am currently working on three research projects: 1) the impact of international trade on regional economic development and social conflict (with Anna Missaia, University of Gothenburg); 2) trade policy and trade development in Sweden during the world wars: 3) Alcohol regulation and the Swedish brewery market, ca 1900-2026.
Keywords
- banking
- financial history
- trade
- tariffs
- economic development
- data
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 18th century
- business history
- alcohol
- breweries
Biography
Graduated from Uppsala univerisity in 2008 with a masters degree in social science, with political science as major. Also studied american studies, peace- and conflict research and Spanish during my time as an undergrad.
I started the PhD program in economic history in September 2011 after an opportunity to participate in a research project revolving around economic integration in times of war and de-globalization, particularly during the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. In December of 2015 I defended my dissertation which treated the issue of Swedish trade policy, and the structure of tariffs and foreign trade between 1780 and 1830.
Since January 2016 I am working as a researcher and teacher at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University.

Publications
Recent publications
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Early Modern Trade and Naval Competition – England and Scandinavia from Westphalia to Vienna
Part of The Routledge Economic History of War, p. 62-79, Routledge, 2025
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Iron for spices: Swedish-Spanish commodity exchange 1738–1813
Part of Forum navale, p. 36-63, 2024
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The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency: Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire
2024
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Production and profitability in Swedish breweries, 1924-1950
Part of Revista de Historia Industrial, p. 119-147, 2023
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240 years of Swedish terms of trade: structure, volatility, and connection to economic growth
2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Iron for spices: Swedish-Spanish commodity exchange 1738–1813
Part of Forum navale, p. 36-63, 2024
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Production and profitability in Swedish breweries, 1924-1950
Part of Revista de Historia Industrial, p. 119-147, 2023
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The role and intensity of export tariffs in trade policy: Scandinavia, 1780–1870
Part of International Journal of Maritime History, p. 576-596, 2022
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Market structure and efficiency in Swedish commercial banking, 1912–1938
Part of Scandinavian Economic History Review, p. 103-123, 2021
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Part of Essays in Economic & Business History, p. 224-270, 2020
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Foreign trade as fiscal policy: tariff setting and customs revenue in Sweden, 1830–1913
Part of Scandinavian Economic History Review, p. 298-316, 2018
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Chapters in book
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Early Modern Trade and Naval Competition – England and Scandinavia from Westphalia to Vienna
Part of The Routledge Economic History of War, p. 62-79, Routledge, 2025
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The impact of war on trade and tariffs: Scandinavia during the first global century
Part of Connected Oceans, p. 71-84, Universus Academic Press, 2022
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Wartime trade and tariffs in Sweden from the Napoleonic Wars to World War I
Part of Small and Medium Powers in Global History, p. 116-138, Routledge, 2018
Datasets
Monograph doctoral thesis
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On the Ocean of Protectionism: The Structure of Swedish Tariffs and Trade 1780–1830
Part of Series on Swedish Foreign Trade, 1780-1830, 2015
Reports
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The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency: Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire
2024
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240 years of Swedish terms of trade: structure, volatility, and connection to economic growth
2023
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2019
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The balance of imbalance between deposits and lending in Swedish commercial banking, 1870-1994
2018
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Open for Welfare: Openness to Trade and Social Spending in the West, 1920–1990
2017
Other
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Wartime and Post-war Economies (Sweden)
2019
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Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 367-369, 2018
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Trade policy disaster: lessons from the 1930s
Part of Scandinavian Economic History Review, p. 200-202, 2013