Department of Economics is proud to present its recent PhD graduates. Five PhD students have successfully defended their theses between June and September, 2024. We congratulate all five of them on this momentous achievement. Congratulations!

The additional uncertainty due to choosing a population, a research design and an analysis path in empirical research introduce an additional layer of uncertainty that conservatively interpreted involves doubling reported standard errors and confidence intervals in published research. Anna Dreber Almenberg and Magnus Johannesson, Professors at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors publish a new article in PNAS.

The exact same results could only be computationally reproduced 52% of the time based on the researchers’ code for more than 1,000 tests of six research questions in empirical finance. Anna Dreber Almenberg and Magnus Johannesson, Professors at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors publish a new article in the Review of Financial Studies.

Digital tablet-based tests may offer a more accurate picture of student achievement in Indian schools than traditional paper-based tests. A new study, conducted by Abhijeet Singh, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at SSE, shows that tablet tests significantly reduce cheating and provide reliable data for education policy reforms.

Higher-income individuals live longer, not because they have better access to healthcare, but due to differences in income, preferences, and health shocks. Johanna Wallenius, Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Panos Margaris from Concordia University, reveal in a new study that lifestyle choices and preventive care habits play a crucial role in explaining this gap.

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Tove Forsbacka. She has successfully defended her thesis on the 14th of May, and we congratulate her on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Tove!

Four researchers at the Department of Economics were awarded grants from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and Tore Browaldh Foundation.

A multi-analyst study where over 160 independent research teams in finance tested the same six hypotheses on the same data set, found very large variation in results across the research teams. Anna Dreber Almenberg and Magnus Johannesson, Professors at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors publish a new article in Journal of Finance.

The Wallenberg Scholars program aims to provide leading researchers in Sweden with grants for free basic research in areas of their own choosing. Three SSE professors are recipients of funding from the KAW Foundation.

This newly published paper, written by Matthias Hänsel, a PhD student at SSE, proposes a Hybrid Perturbation method to accurately solve Search-and-Matching models. An application to the Hagedorn and Manovskii (2008) model demonstrates its effectiveness in capturing non-linear model dynamics.