Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Matti Sarvimäki, Aalto University

The Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness (CWWH) are happy to organise a research seminar at noon on the 27th of August. In the seminar Fredrik Lange, Assistant Professor at CWWH will present the first findings from the Ice Hockey Project, a CWWH initiative together with the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The project explores supporter happiness, social connections with other supporters, and overall life satisfaction.

Welcome to our next ACE Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar dedicated to the “revival” of zero-based budgeting.

Center for Sports and Business Advisory Board will convene.

Welcome to the first SITE Seminar of the fall! We kick off the semester on August 19, 2025, with a presentation by Martin Dufwenberg (Purdue University), who will share insights from the study “Credible Threats,” co-authored with Flora Li and Alec Smith. Drawing on a belief-dependent anger model and experimental evidence, the research shows how communicated threats influence expectations and behavior—leading to greater deterrence and increased costly punishment in strategic settings.

Filip Wijkström will participate in a discussion about civil society and state institutions in times of crisis.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) is hosting a timely and insightful public seminar on the evolving role of international sanctions in today’s shifting geopolitical landscape. Join us for a high-level event featuring leading experts as they unpack recent research, examine current challenges, and explore forward-looking strategies to enhance sanctions effectiveness against Russia. This seminar will also mark the official launch of SITE’s new Sanctions Web Portal—an open-access platform offering data, analysis, and resources for policymakers, journalists, and researchers.

Join us for our upcoming ACE Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar dedicated to capital market consequences of audit quality.

Nicholas Barberis, Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management, will present his research at SSE main building (Room Ragnar) on Friday, June 13 at 10:30 CET.

Chunjie Wang will defend a PhD dissertation entitled “Empirical Asset Pricing and Machine Learning Applications” on June 12.