Associate Professor Mark Voorneveld is awarded the SSE Corporate Partners' Pedagogical Award 2024 for his dedication to student success, passion for teaching and willingness to adapt.

Assistant Professor Jaakko Meriläinen is awarded the SSE Corporate Partner Research Award 2024 for his innovative work in political economics. President Lars Strannegård presented the award, which amounts to 100,000 SEK.

In the annual thesis competition organized by the Swedish Competition Authority, students from the Department of Economics at SSE were recognized for their work. The first prize in the economics category was awarded to Agnes Erlandsson and Erik Leiditz Thorsson for their thesis on declining firm markups in Sweden. Meanwhile, Marcus Hagman, also from the Department of Economics at SSE, received the second prize for his thesis on collusion and price transmission in the German retail gasoline market.

A new large-scale replication project of online social science experiments showed a replication rate of about 50%. Anna Dreber Almenberg and Magnus Johannesson, Professors at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors publish a new article in Nature Human Behaviour.

New research from Lars Ljungqvist, Professor at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors show that tax reforms impact singles and couples differently. The study finds that earned income tax credits (EITC) are more effective than negative income tax (NIT) policies in supporting lower-income people when their primary labor supply decisions are made at the extensive margin, i.e., whether or not to work. It highlights how tax incentives influence career choices, savings, and social welfare.

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!