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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden – Capitalist Dynasties in the Land of Equal Opportunity?
20 December 2017
By Jesper Roine (with Anders Björklund and Daniel Waldenström), Working Paper
What Determines Top Income Shares? Evidence from the Twentieth Century
20 December 2017
By Jesper Roine (with Jonas Vlachos and Daniel Waldenström), Working Paper
On the Possibility of Political Change – Outcomes in Between Local and Global Equilibria
20 December 2017
By Jesper Roine (with Conny Olovsson), Working Paper
Jesper Roine is "Swede of the year" in Economics together with co-writers of Ekonomistas
20 December 2017
Since 2006, the magazine Fokus has given an annual award – “Swede of the year” – in different categories to Swedes who have contributed to society. This year, the recipients of the award in Economics are the writers behind the blog Ekonomistas, one of whom is SITE Associate Professor Jesper Roine.
HIGHLIGHTS AND PRESENTATIONS from the site academic conference 2017
18 December 2017
On December 14-15th, 2017 SITE hosted its annual academic conference together with Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE).
Professor ANNA DREBER ALMENBERG talks about her research in MORGONPASSET
18 December 2017
Anna Dreber Almenberg is the special guest in the radio program "Morgonpasset i P3" today. She talks about her research within behavioural economics, her meeting with the nobel laureate in economic sciences etc.
SSE AlumnI awarded for best thesis on civil society
14 December 2017
Our Alumni Antonia Linnarsson and Lina Wingren (MSc in Business & Management) have received the Civil Society Scholarship (Civilsamhällesstipendiet) for their thesis ”Blurring realities between NPOs & Retailers” .
Svetlana Kolesova interviewed by Swedish Food Retailers Federation
13 December 2017
PhD student Svetlana Kolesova interviewed by Swedish Food Retailers Federation (Svensk Dagligvaruhandel) about her studies
Nobel Laureate Richard H. Thaler visited SSE
12 December 2017
This year’s Nobel Laureate in Economics Sciences, Richard H. Thaler visited SSE today Tuesday, December 12.
New centre for sustainable finance established in Stockholm
12 December 2017
The financial sector has a crucial role to play in shifting capital allocation towards investments consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. The direction set in recent years has been positive, but we need to continue raising the bar and level of ambition in sustainable finance, both in developed economies and in rapidly growing emerging markets.