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Lars E.O. Svensson: Central Banking Revolutionary

15 March 2023
The IMF publication Finance & Development profiles former Swedish central banker Lars E.O. Svensson, Affiliated Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics.

David Domeij has been appointed the Eva and Mats Qviberg Professor in Economics

10 March 2023
David Domeij, professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), has been appointed the Eva and Mats Qviberg Professor in Economics.

Vacancy: Research Assistant positions at the Department of Economics

09 March 2023
The Department of Economics is announcing up to three fulltime positions as a Research Assistant. The primary task of the RA will be to assist faculty at the Department of Economics in research related tasks.

Magnus Johannesson among the best scientists in the world, according to new ranking

08 March 2023
SSE Professor Magnus Johannesson is ranked as one of the world’s best scientists in the arena of Economics and Finance, according to Research.com. He shares this honor with several Nobel Laureates.

The Department of Economics welcomes Jaakko Meriläinen as a new faculty and researcher at SSE

16 February 2023
We are delighted to welcome a new researcher to the Economics Department, Jaakko Meriläinen, who will start as an Assistant professor at the department after the summer.

Two Master students in Economics have won an award from the Swedish Gender Equality Agency

13 February 2023
The Swedish Gender Equality Agency's thesis competition was organized for the first time in 2021. The content related criterion for participation in the competition is that the essay contributes to knowledge about gender equality policy or social development based on the ambitions of gender equality policy.

Myrdal Prize 2022 goes to the Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Economics - Ulrika Ahrsjö

13 February 2023
The prize was established in 1983 as a tribute to Professor Gunnar Myrdal on his 85th birthday. The Myrdal Prize is awarded each year by Swedbank for the best article of the year in the Swedish Economic Association's journal Ekonomisk Debatt.

Birth versus worth: how does the Indian caste system affect entrepreneurship?

09 February 2023
Misallocation of resources explains much of the productivity differences across countries, but the role of informal institutions in this misallocation has been little documented. In a recently published paper, Sampreet Goraya, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, brings evidence that the Indian caste system has a distortionary effect on capital and talent allocation in the economy.

Andrew Proctor: latest PhD graduate at the Department of Economics

06 February 2023
Department of Economics n is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Andrew Proctor. He has successfully defended his thesis on the 17th of January, and we congratulate him on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Andrew!

Researchers at the Department of Economics receive funding

22 December 2022
Robert Östling, Ulrika Ahrsjö, Chloe Nibourel and Mark Voorneveld, at the Department of Economics at SSE, receive funding for their respective research projects.
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