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The Master Thesis Award 2020 goes to...
2020-10-23
Martin Warin & Jakob Kalbe for their joint thesis: "Dressed for Long-Term Success - Evidence from Sweden Regarding the Long-Term Value Creation of Private Equity Sponsors".
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Welcome Göran Robertsson!
2020-10-23
We are pleased to share that Göran Robertsson has been appointed Executive Director at the Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. Göran comes most recently from Riksgälden (the...
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Nobel Prize: Per Strömberg congratulates the 2020 Laureates in Economic Sciences
2020-10-13
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 was awarded jointly to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new...
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Welcome Tobias Sichert - New Assistant Professor
2020-10-12
The Swedish House of Finance and the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics recently welcomed new Assistant Professor Tobias Sichert - a PhD graduate from Goethe University and...
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Congratulations Dong Yan for receiving the award for ”Outstanding Pedagogical Achievements 2020” at the Stockholm School of Economics.
2020-10-09
“I am honored to receive the award. It means that the hard work I put in redesigning the course was recognized, and the experience can be useful to others and future teaching. The past semester took a...
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Catching a Glimpse: Get to Know New Assistant Professor Diogo Mendes
2020-09-23
In the fall of 2020, the Swedish House of Finance and the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics welcomed three new Assistant Professors’. Diogo Mendes - a PhD graduate from Nova...
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Hysteresis in Price Efficiency and the Economics of Slow-moving Capital
2020-09-15
Will arbitrage capital flow into markets experiencing shocks, mitigating adverse effects on price efficiency? Not necessarily. In a dynamic model with privately informed capital constrained...
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9th National PhD Workshop in Finance: Call for Papers
2020-09-08
The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) will organize the 9th National Workshop for PhD students in Finance on November 17-18. The workshop offers students from Swedish academic institutions the...
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New publication accepted: How Did COVID-19 Affect Firms’ Access to Public Capital Markets?
2020-06-29
Congratulations Michael Halling whose paper “How Did COVID-19 Affect Firms’ Access to Public Capital Markets?” written with co-autors Jin Yu and Josef Zechner, was recently accepted for publication in...
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Talent in distressed firms: New evidence from Swedish bankruptcies
2020-06-09
Businesses worldwide are reeling from the fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a surge in bankruptcies is expected. Using micro-data and a large sample of Swedish bankruptcies from 2003 to...