Daniel Halvarsson

Senior Researcher · The Ratio Institute · Stockholm

Economist studying firm dynamics and structural transformation. Building AI infrastructure governed by the coordination principles I study.

Research

I work at the intersection of empirical economics and AI. My research uses Swedish employer-employee matched data and a novel XBRL dataset — 400,000 digitized annual reports from 2020–2025 — to study how firms adapt to structural change.

19+ publications · PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology

System

I build AI systems using the same coordination principles I study. My personal infrastructure — The Waking System — runs six autonomous agents governed by a decentralized protocol inspired by Hayek's theory of distributed knowledge.

6 agents · 11 coordination paths · 24/7 uptime