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Welcome Tobias Sichert - New Assistant Professor

2020-10-12

The Swedish House of Finance and the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics recently welcomed new Assistant Professor Tobias Sichert - a PhD graduate from Goethe University and...

Congratulations Dong Yan for receiving the award for ”Outstanding Pedagogical Achievements 2020” at the Stockholm School of Economics.

2020-10-09

“I am honored to receive the award. It means that the hard work I put in redesigning the course was recognized, and the experience can be useful to others and future teaching. The past semester took a...

Catching a Glimpse: Get to Know New Assistant Professor Diogo Mendes

2020-09-23

In the fall of 2020, the Swedish House of Finance and the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics welcomed three new Assistant Professors’. Diogo Mendes - a PhD graduate from Nova...

Hysteresis in Price Efficiency and the Economics of Slow-moving Capital

2020-09-15

Will arbitrage capital flow into markets experiencing shocks, mitigating adverse effects on price efficiency? Not necessarily. In a dynamic model with privately informed capital constrained...

9th National PhD Workshop in Finance: Call for Papers

2020-09-08

The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) will organize the 9th National Workshop for PhD students in Finance on November 17-18. The workshop offers students from Swedish academic institutions the...

New publication accepted: How Did COVID-19 Affect Firms’ Access to Public Capital Markets?

2020-06-29

Congratulations Michael Halling whose paper “How Did COVID-19 Affect Firms’ Access to Public Capital Markets?” written with co-autors Jin Yu and Josef Zechner, was recently accepted for publication in...

Talent in distressed firms: New evidence from Swedish bankruptcies

2020-06-09

Businesses worldwide are reeling from the fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a surge in bankruptcies is expected. Using micro-data and a large sample of Swedish bankruptcies from 2003 to...

The Swedish House of Finance Award for best Master Thesis. Contributed by Nasdaq Nordic Foundation

2020-05-20

The Swedish House of Finance awards a best thesis prize to MSc students who have used Swedish Equity Data* available from the National Data Center of the Swedish House of Finance in their work. The...

The CEPR Fifth European Workshop on Household Finance Returns

2020-05-04

On May 7 to May 9, the CEPR Fifth European Workshop on Household Finance - a niche conference exhibiting top-tier research in the field of household finance, returns. This time to Stockholm, SHOF. The...

A glance back at 2019 - The SHoF Annual Report

2020-04-21