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Håkan Lindgren Prize

The Håkan Lindgren Prize is awarded to the best Bachelor or Master’s thesis of the year in Economic History.

2024

Rickard Björnemalm, Stockholm University ”Strategy in Swedish state-owned enterprises: Managing market-orientation in energy, post, and telecommunications, 1980–1988”

2023

Klara Järgenstedt, Gothenburg University, ”Kris i ledningsfrågan! En komparativ studie av tre banker under 1983–1990 och upprinnelsen till 1990-talets bankkris”

2022

2022 David Sarasa Flores, Lund University ”The dynamic effects of fiscal consolidation on income distribution: evidence for Spain over 1980-2020”

2021

William Skoglund, Uppsala University “Regional Dispersions: Wages and Institutions in the Interwar Period”

2020

2020 Louise Cormack, Lund University “Intergenerational transmissions in reproductive behaviour in the context of the historical fertility transition. An analysis of a population in Southern Sweden 1813–1967

2019

Isabelle Lanfelt, Uppsala University "Arbete, politisk representation och kvinnor: Deskriptiv representationsteori och kvinnliga yrkeserfarenheter i Sveriges riksdag 1974–2018."

2018

Johannes Ludwig Pelzl, Lund University “…and they lived happily ever after”? Commercial Retirement in an Early Modern Hospital in Regensburg, 1649-1809

2017

Gustav Severin Ingman, Stockholm University ”House prices and household indebtedness Long run relationship, trends and turbulence in Sweden 1875-2012

2016 

Håkan Bengtsson, Stockholm University, ”En tredjedel kontant och resten på 24 månader – avbetalningssystemet som institution 1915-1977”. 

2015

Mathias Näsman, Umeå University, ”Staten och skifferoljan”.

2014

Kathryn Gary, Lund University, “Wages in Comparison, Scandinavia in the Early Modern Period: Evidence from Scania”.

2013

Jacob Molinder, Uppsala University, ”Från massarbetslöshet till full sysselsättning - Arbetslöshet, löner och produktivitet på vägen mot full sysselsättning 1935-1948”.