Letting the tale wag the dog
14 February 2012 -
Two professors from the Stockholm School of Economics, Lovisa Näslund and Frida Pemer, present two separate case studies of disguised Swedish companies, "Alpha" and "Beta".
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Swedish carmaker Saab at dead end without GM support
06 January 2012 -
Martin Skold, professor at Stockholm School of Economics, said that without GM on board, a country keen on building a domestic auto industry, but which lacks the know-how, might bid for the leftover assets.
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Scraping bottom of the pyramid
20 December 2011 -
By adapting their products to better suit the needs of the poor, businesses can compete in an open market and still be sustainable, as it is not an "either/or" situation, said Assoc Prof Lin Lerpold of the Stockholm School of Economics' Sustainability Research Group.
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Carmaker Saab at the end of the road
19 December 2011 -
'Saab has been in a tight spot for rather a long time,' Martin Skold, researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics, told dpa.
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Mannen met 'y-naam' plegen vaker misdaden
14 October 2011 -
Mannen met een naam die eindigt op y hebben meer kans om in de criminaliteit terecht te komen. Althans in Zweden waar een studie aantoont dat iemand die Ronny of Benny heet, vaker misdaden pleegt dan landgenoten met een naam die niet eindigt op een y.
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Given names linked to criminality: Swedish study
12 October 2011 -
12-year-old Malmö girl 'was not raped': police (10 Oct 11) Man drugged and raped 12-year-old girl in Malmö (3 Oct 11) Swedish researchers in 'depression gene' find (28 Sep 11) "We find that the y-name syndrome is empirically grounded; men with y-names are more likely to live in municipalities characterized by indicators of low socio-economic status and are over-represented among criminals," Erik Segerborg and Mikael Söderström write in their master's thesis presented at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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A Study in Child Cooperation: Sweden vs. Colombia
12 October 2011 -
Now, a working paper by Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen and Eva Ranehill at the Stockholm School of Economics compares the cooperative behavior of Swedish children and Colombian children using the Prisoner's Dilemma game, which explores how two parties cooperate in the absence of communication.
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US Economists Sargent, Sims Win Economics Nobel
10 October 2011 -
"If we want to understand the role of economic policy in the society, we must have a notion of cause and effect," said Tore Ellingsen, from the Stockholm School of Economics and another member of the prize committee.
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