Marcus Opp, Associate Professor in financial economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, has received a research grant from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation to study how to prevent banks from taking risks that can trigger another financial crisis.

Professor Tomoaki Nakatani from Sapporo University (Japan) and the Global Institute for Collaborative Research and Education will visit us from December 18 – 21.

Invitation and Call for Papers: The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) and Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum) are pleased to invite interested academics and practitioners to a conference on “Sustainable Finance” on August 20-21, 2018, in Stockholm.

Congratulations to Ingrid Stigzelius, Affiliated Researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets, Lotta Hultin, Postdoc Fellow at SIR* and Ingrid Gustafsson, researcher at Score**, who have been awarded the Wallander scholarship from the Tore Browaldh Foundation.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann passed away in Lausanne on December 21, 2017. Jean-Pierre, a French-American, was head-hunted by Staffan Burenstam Linder, to lead the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), which, after years of fundraising in both Sweden and Japan, was inaugurated in September 1992. JP, as he was generally known, was a major intellectual with a PhD in History from Oxford and a background in Asian, and Japanese studies.

Sara comments on the challenges of changing consumer behaviours for fashion retailers.

"Retail (big)data and predictive analysis" is a joint project by the Center for Retailing (CFR) and the Center for Economic Statistics (CES), and aims at financing PhD students in marketing analytics and predictive analysis using big data from retailing.

By Jenny Simon, Working Paper

By Jenny Simon, Working Paper

By Jenny Simon (with Justin Valasek)