Press releases

What explains sustained economic growth? The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences recognizes Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for explaining how innovation drives sustained growth. Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, discusses what their work tells us about progress today.

The Stockholm School of Economics’ Executive MBA program has achieved its best-ever result in the Financial Times 2025 ranking, placing 40th globally among the top 100 programs.

Associate Professor Niclas Hellman has been awarded the Swedish Audit Academy’s (SRA) Research Award for 2024/2025. The award recognizes his long-standing contributions to high-quality accounting research and his commitment to sharing insights with both practitioners and students.

The Stockholm School of Economics is receiving a total of SEK 80 million in new funding for research on and education in sustainability. The initiative is backed by Mistra and the Kamprad Family Foundation – a joint effort that makes it possible to both deepen research and establish a long-term structure for sustainability work.

Anna Breman, who holds a PhD in Economics from SSE, becomes the first ever female Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank.

Earlier this summer, undergraduate students from across the CIVICA alliance of European universities gathered at SNSPA in Bucharest for European Week 2025.