by Ina Ganguli (with Daniel R. Feenberg, Patrick Gaule and Jonathan Gruber), NBER Working paper

The payment service company Klarna started in 2005 at the Stockholm School of Economics. Now Sebastian Siemiatkowski returns to the incubator SSE Business Lab as chairman of a new Advisory Board consisting of, among others, Cristina Stenbeck (Kinnevik), Katarina Martinson (Lundbergföretagen), Sebastian Knutsson (King.com) and Mikael Schiller (Acne Studios).

Victor Bao is a second year Bachelor student with a great interest in music which is why he initiated the lunch concerts in the schools Atrium this spring. 

Sweden is a world leader in technology, only beaten by Silicon Valley according to an article in The Telegraph.

SITE has published a policy brief that covers a discussion on how to reduce extreme poverty by incentivizing private aid and private investment in developing countries and secure development finance to fragile states.

On June 12, Henning Christner from the Department of Accounting successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation entitled “The Valuable Organisation: A Study of How Activities are Calculated, Controlled and Made Valuable” . The discussant was Professor Kari Lukka, University of Turku.

Sven-Erik Johansson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Accounting, passed away in June 2015 at the age of 91. Sven-Erik will be greatly missed by his colleagues at the department.

The rationale for rating microfinance organizations has changed considerably since microloans were introduced as a way of combating poverty at the end of the 1990s. Today it increasingly embraces models common in the corporate world, Sofia Nilsson Altafi claims in her new thesis from the Stockholm School of Economics.

The Financial Times (FT) are ranking the best Finance Masters program from around the world. The SSE’s Master in Finance was ranked as 12th best in the world, moving up one place from 2014.