Previous events
May 2024
May 6: Gualtiero Azzalini presents the paper “Preference heterogeneity and portfolio choices over the wealth distribution” at the Swedish Riksbank.
May 3: Paolo Sodini presents at the Danish Finance Institute retreat.
April 2024
April 11: Zoltan Racz presents “Housing and Portfolio Choice over the Wealth Distribution” at the Swedish House of Finance.
April 8: Zoltan Racz presents “Housing and Portfolio Choice over the Wealth Distribution” at the Swedish Riksbank.
February 2024
February 16: Gualtiero Azzalini presents the paper “Preference heterogeneity and portfolio choices over the wealth distribution” at the Department of Economics, SSE.
December 2023
December 11: Anastasia Girshina presents “Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns” at the Research Institute for Industrial Economics.
December 8: Anastasia Girshina will run the CEPR Household Finance Series during 2024.
September 2023
September 27: Paula Roth’s paper “Inequality, Relative Deprivation, and Financial Distress” is forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
August 2023
August 24: Gualtiero Azzalini presents the paper “Preference heterogeneity and portfolio choices over the wealth distribution” at the 1st Arne Ryde Workshop “Micro Data meet Macro Models”.
August 8: Gualtiero Azzalini presents “Business Cycle Asymmetry of Earnings Pass-Through” at the Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics (NORMAC).
August 12: Paolo Sodini presents on the use of social security numbers to study investment behavior and data use at the GAIA Annual Meeting.
August 1: Gualtiero Azzalini and Zoltan Racz join MiDa. Gualtiero is an Assistant Professor and Zoltan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Finance at SSE.
June 2023
June 7: Paolo Sodini presents “From Savings Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality” at the INSEAD Finance Symposium.
May 2023
May 10: Paolo Sodini presents “Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns” at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
May 4–5: Paolo Sodini presents the same paper at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
April 2023
April 21: Anastasia Girshina presents “Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns” at the CEPR Eighth Workshop on Household Finance in Melbourne.
April 17: Paula Roth presents “Severe Health Shocks and Financial Well-Being” at Jönköping Business School.
March 2023
March 16–15: Paolo Sodini presents “Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns” at the Bank of Spain and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
March 14: Paolo Sodini, Anastasia Girshina, and Paula Roth present on household risks in times of financial stress.
February 2023
February 8: Paolo Sodini presents on how data can be used to understand inequality.
November 2022
November 22: Paula Roth presents her paper on household debt and inequality at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.
November 11: Paula Roth presents the same paper at the National Economics Conference at SSE.
October 2022
Paolo Sodini appears on the SSE’s Sounds Economy podcast.
Paolo Sodini appears on the Rikatillsammans podcast.
October 24: The first PhD course in Household Finance at SSE is launched. Paolo Sodini is the course director and teaches the empirical module. Anastasia Girshina teaches the real estate module.
October 18: Paolo Sodini delivers the keynote at the National PhD Workshop.
October 5–7: Paolo Sodini’s paper “Countercyclical Income Risk and Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Sweden” (with Sylvain Catherine and Yapei Zhang) is presented at the CEPR European Household Finance Conference in Ispra, Italy.
September 2022
Paula Roth joins the MiDa team as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Francisco Tavares joins the MiDa team as a Research Analyst.
June 2022
June 14: Paolo Sodini presents MiDa to the SHOF Board.
May 2022
May 30: Paolo Sodini presents MiDa to the SHOF Advisory Board.
May 26: Paolo Sodini presents “From Savings Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality” at London Business School.
May 18: Paolo Sodini presents the same paper at the London School of Economics.
April 2022
April 12: Azar Aliyev, former Research Analyst at MiDa, is admitted to the Harvard PhD program.
March 2022
March 10: Workshop on Distributional National Accounts: MiDa and IFN teams share knowledge on using Swedish micro data.
June 2021
June 17: Paolo Sodini and Anastasia Girshina present the MiNa project to the Government Offices of Sweden.
June 5: Paolo Sodini and Anastasia Girshina present the MiNa project to Finansinspektionen.
January 2021
January 21: Paolo Sodini’s paper “Can security design foster household risk-taking?” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance.
November 2020
November 26: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond awards MiDa 15M SEK for the MiNa project.
The project addresses limitations of macro data by developing micro-based national accounts to support monetary policy, financial stability, and consumer protection. It leverages Sweden’s unique micro data infrastructure and involves collaboration with Riksbanken, Finansinspektionen, and Statistics Sweden.
October 2020
The Institute for Micro Data (MiDa) is launched.