Henrekson was as president by Fredrik Sjöholm, formerly professor of International Economics at Lund University.
[2] His dissertation dealt with empirical determinants of public sector growth.
Since the turn of the new millennium, his primary research focus is entrepreneurship economics and the institutional determinants of the business climate.
In collaboration with Steven J. Davis at the University of Chicago he has developed methods to test whether pertinent rules of the game have differential effects on different firms depending on their age, size, industry, ownership structure and capital intensity.
Since 2006 he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).