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The impact of financial education

2021-03-30

New evidence shows that financial education makes a difference for firm performance. Assistant professor Diogo Mendes recent experiment in Mozambique gives new insight that can be especially useful...

“The job market is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”

2021-03-11

Congratulations Andreas Johansson who recently accepted a position as Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics at Lund University after being on the job market during the 2020 – 2021...

Research Analyst Position at Swedish House of Finance

2021-03-05

The Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics (SHoF) is accepting applications for one or two full-time pre-doctoral research analyst positions in the field of household finance....

Call for papers: Money Markets in a New Era of Central Bank Policies

2021-02-24

Deadline for submissions: April 15th 2021

Swedish House of Finance is looking for a Front Desk Coordinator

2021-02-22

The importance of academic role models

2021-02-18

Congratulations Adam Altmejd on a great new paper - O Brother, Where Start Thou? - recently accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Tomas Björk has left us

2021-02-01

Our dear colleague and friend Tomas Björk, professor of finance at SSE, passed away on Sunday after a period of illness.

Describing the past or predicting the future?

2021-01-29

Fama-French (FF) and Carhart factors are now available for the Swedish market in a new database available at the Swedish House of Finance Data Center. Factors are updated continuously and open to the...

Ramin Baghai new co-Director of the Sustainable Finance Initiative at Misum

2021-01-25

How to design an effective carbon tax

2021-01-22

Watch the interview with Per Strömberg and Gustav Martinsson about their findings from a recent research project on the Swedish carbon dioxide tax. Their project evaluates the effectiveness of the...