Research in the spotlight
Explore the latest research from the Swedish House of Finance.
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Uncertainty, Access to Debt, and Firm Precautionary Behaviour
2020-10-08
The contemporary world is filled with uncertainty surrounding issues that include, but are not limited to, the coronavirus pandemic and trade wars between USA and China. Uncertainty is considered to...
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The Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Democracy
2020-10-05
In their forthcoming paper "The Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Democracy: Gadflies and Low-Cost Activism" Professor Mariassunta Giannetti together with co-autor Nickolay Gantchev find that, in...
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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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2020 EFA Best Paper Prize Winners Announced - Congratulations Marcus Opp!
2020-08-26
On August 20-21, the European Finance Association announced this year’s winners of the prestigious EFA Best Paper Prize in Responsible Finance. It was awarded to Associate Professor Marcus Opp from...
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Two SSE Professors at the Heart of European Macro-prudential Regulation
2020-06-15
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. As countries around the world implemented policies to contain the virus, and as global populations observed social...
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The Only 'Free Lunch' in Finance
2020-05-19
As the infamous saying goes - in life there are no ‘free lunches’. What about in finance? Paolo Sodini, Professor at the Swedish House of Finance and a founder of the Centre for Economic Policy...
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PhD-student Yingjie Qi Accepts Offer at CBS
2020-05-05
A huge congratulations to Yingjie Qi who will join Copenhagen Business School (CBS) as Assistant Professor this academic year. Yingjie Qi, originally from China, has a Masters Degree from Washington...
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Let’s talk about the weather (again)!
2020-04-22
Not long ago – before the Covid-19 crisis - the world stood captivated in horror as scenes of environmental devastation and tragic loss of live in the Australian bushfires was televised across the...
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Ivika Jäger Receives Offer at Aalto University
2020-04-21
Congratulations Ivika Jäger! PhD student Ivika Jäger at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Department of Finance, recently accepted a three year postdoctoral contract at Aalto University*,...
