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Household finance experts

How do people manage their financial resources—and what happens when they get it wrong? Household finance experts at the Stockholm School of Economics can shed light on these questions and many more. Their work covers areas like financial investments, wealth inequality, and the impact of home ownership.

Anders Anderson, associate professor and Director of the Swedish House of Finance, Department of Finance 

Areas of expertise: 

  • Behavioral and consumer finance, with a focus on how individuals and institutional investors make decisions about savings, debt, and investments.
  • How emotions, biases and self-perception influence household financial decisions.
  • Specialist in financial literacy, including the gap between perceived and actual literacy and its impact on financial planning.

Email: anders.anderson@hhs.se 
Languages: English, Swedish 

 

Paolo Sodini, professor at the Department of Finance, fellow at the Swedish House of Finance  

Area of expertise:  

  • How households use financial markets (stocks, funds, bonds, other financial instruments) to achieve their goals.  
  • Welfare consequences of household financial mistakes, such as portfolio diversification and rebalancing, and the importance of sophistication in limiting financial losses.  
  • Wealth inequality, in particular of the role of savings, financial risk taking and returns to wealth.  
  • Impact of homeownership on household economic behavior and gender differences in the housing market. 

Email: paolo.sodini@hhs.se   
Phone: +46 (0)8 736 91 65  
Languages: English, Italian 

 

Richard Wahlund, professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy, Director of the Center for Media and Economic Psychology  
 
Area of expertise: 

  • Psychological factors that influence economic judgments and decision making (concerning for example buying, financial, insurance, or retirement decision making). 
  • Green housing: Willingness to pay for green aspects when buying a residence.  
  • Drivers of individuals’ willingness to pay for housing. 

Email: Richard.Wahlund@hhs.se  
Phone: +46 (0)8 736 95 80
Languages: English, Swedish