Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss, NHH, presenting "Misperceived Returns to Active Investing: Evidence From a Field Experiment Among Retail Investors". We conduct a field experiment with a sample of retail investors. Treated respondents are 17.4 percentage points more likely to think that index funds will outperform active funds in the future. Our main result is that treated respondents increase the index fund share of their portfolio by 4.6 percentage points (39 percent) relative to control group respondents.

Welcome to the joint 30th Alumni Reunion for you who started at SSE in 1990 and 1991!

Professor Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College Business School, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and CEPR)

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Peter Hull, Brown University, presenting "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks". We develop a new approach to estimating the causal effects of treatments or instruments that combine multiple sources of variation according to a known formula, and use this approach to address bias when estimating employment effects of market access growth from Chinese high-speed rail construction.

Misum is delighted to host Professor Leonard Wantchekon from Princeton University who will give a special guest lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Emil Bustos defends his PhD dissertation “Essays on Firms' Hiring, Investment and Risk Management Decisions” on May 10, 2022.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Petter Berg, SSE, presenting "Test based accountability in developing countries".

On 9 May, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum) is hosting a seminar on the forthcoming April 2022 World Economic Outlook (WEO) chapter: “A Greener Labor Market: Employment, Policies, and Economic Transformation”. Niels-Jakob H. Hansen, Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) working on the WEO, will join us to present key findings from the chapter.

Associate Professor Daniel Pittino from Jönköping International Business School presented a paper on how founder’s identity hybridity can foster radical innovation in technology based new ventures.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Christopher Neilson, Princeton University, presenting "Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru." This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in the access to high-quality teachers. Counterfactual experiments taking into account equilibrium sorting show that budget-neutral changes in the current wage schedule can achieve a remarkably more equitable distribution of teacher quality across regions.