Previous events
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 12: Paolo Sodini talks about using social security numbers to look at how people invest and how we think about using data at the GAIA Annual Meeting.
August 1: Gualtiero Azzalini and Zoltan Racz join MiDa. Gualtiero is an assistant professor and Zoltan is a postdoc at the Department of Finance at SSE.
June 2023:
June 7: Paolo Sodini presented From Savings Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality at the INSEAD Finance Symposium. See the program here.
May 2023:
May 10: Paolo Sodini presented Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
May 4-5: Paolo Sodini presented Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
April 2023
April 21: Anastasia Girshina presented 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 presented Severe Health Shocks and Financial Well-Being at Jönköping Business School.
March 2023
16 & 15 March: Paolo Sodini presented Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns at the Spanish Central Bank and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
14 March 2023: Paolo Sodini, Anastasia Girshina and Paula Roth talk about household risks in times of financial stress.
February 2023
8 February 2023: Paolo Sodini talks about how you can use data to understand inequality.
November 2022
22 November 2022: Paula Roth presented her paper on Household Debt and Inequality at the Department of Political Science at Gothenburg University.
11 November 2022: Paula Roth presented her paper on Household Debt and Inequality at the National Economics Conference at SSE.
October 2022
Paolo Sodini on the SSE’s Sounds Economy podcast
Paolo Sodini on the Rikatillsammans podcast
24 October 2022: The first PhD course in Household Finance at SSE is launched. Paolo Sodini is the director and will teach the empirical module. Anastasia Girshina teachers the real estate module.
18 October 2022: Paolo Sodini gives the Keynote to the National PhD Workshop
5th-7th October 2022: Paolo Sodini’s paper “Countercyclical Income Risk and Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Sweden” (co-authored with Sylvain Catherine and Yapei Zhang) is on the program of the CEPR European Household Finance Conference in Ispra (Italy).
Paula Roth joins the MiDa Team as a PostDoc. Paula Roth holds a PhD from Uppsala University and previously worked at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
Francisco Tavares joins the the MiDa Team as Research Analyst. Francisco has an MSc in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics and has previously worked as trainee at the Business Cycle Analysis Division of the ECB.
June 2022
14 June 2022: Paolo Sodini presents MiDa to the SHOF Board
May 2022
30 May 2022: Paolo Sodini presents MiDa to the SHOF Advisory Board
26 May 2022: Paolo Sodini presents “From Saving Comes Having? Disentangling the
Impact of Saving onWealth Inequality“ (co-authored with Laurent Bach and Laurent Calvet) at the London Business School
18 May 2022: Paolo Sodini presents “From Saving Comes Having? Disentangling the
Impact of Saving onWealth Inequality“ (co-authored with Laurent Bach and Laurent Calvet) at the London School of Economics
April 2022
12 April 2022: Azar Aliyev, a former research analyst at MiDa, is admitted to the Harvard PhD program.
March 2022
10 March 2022: Workshop on Distributional National Accounts: Paolo Sodini’s MiDa team and Daniel Waldeström’s IFN team share knowledge and experiences on how to use Swedish Micro Data to create Distributional National Accounts
June 2021
17 June 2021: Paolo Sodini and Anastasia Girshina present the MiNa project to the Government Office (Regeringskansliet)
5 June 2021: Paolo Sodini and Anastasia Girshina present the MiNa project to Finansinspektionen
21 January 2021: Paolo Sodini’s paper “Can security design foster household risk-taking?” (co-authored with Laurent Calvet, Claire Celerier and Boris Vallee) is accepted for publication at the Journal of Finance
26 November 2020: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond awards MiDa 15M SEK for the MiNa project:
The Great Recession highlighted the severe limitations of relying on macro data to prevent and respond to financial systemic risk and macroeconomic shocks. Micro-based National Accounts will allow the use of micro data in guiding an integrated approach to monetary, financial stability and consumer protection policies. The project will fill the enormous gap between the existence of the unique raw micro data available in Sweden and the possibility of using it for academic research and applied work. The project has already obtained the interest and involvement of Riksbanken, Finansinspektionen and Statistics Sweden.
The Institute of Micro Data (MiDa) is launched!