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Tracking Diversity Progress in Financial Economics: The State of Gender Equality in 2023
2024-04-03
As of December 2023, on average, 22% of researchers in finance departments at leading universities were women. Sweden ranks fifth on the global ranking.
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Alexander Ljungqvist recieves grant for study on the investibility of disruptive innovations
2024-03-28
Ljungqvist's research focuses on the role of capital markets in cushioning the adverse effects of disruptive innovations to better understand effects of innovative breakthroughs such as...
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How can Liquidation of Viable Corporations be Avoided?
2024-03-20
Increasing insolvency rates in Sweden, Europe, and globally underscore the need for effective corporate insolvency systems and processes. Recent EU reforms advocate for frameworks that prefer...
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Benefits of Collecting Household Wealth Data
2024-03-19
Sweden ended its wealth tax in 2007 as part of tax reforms to boost investment and growth. As a result, it also marked an end to a database that recorded and tracked the assets and liabilities of...
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Vacancy: Research Analyst Positions
2024-03-18
The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) is accepting applications for a full-time research analyst position. Candidates would ideally start working in Fall 2024 and work for approximately two years, while...
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Annual Report 2023: Navigating Global Risks
2024-03-15
How to measure uncertainty and mitigate the fallout stemming from it? The 2023 Report features some of the research that is being carried out at the Swedish house of Finance.
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Meet Gualtiero Azzalini: a SHoF Researcher Unveiling How Income Risk Shapes Inequality and the Economy
2024-03-05
Gualtiero Azzalini is one of Swedish House of Finance’s (SHoF) latest additions to its research team. He studies macroeconomics, household finance, and at their intersection. In his research, Azzalini...
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Researchers’ View: On Bank Profits
2024-02-26
Swedish banks, including SEB, Swedbank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, and Danske Bank, reported record profits, prompting a public debate about whether banks’ earnings are excessively high, and raising...
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Call for papers: Workshop: Household Debt Relief, New data, Micro-Macro Perspectives
2024-02-20
In light of the expanding availability of credit products, the rising number of households facing financial distress, and the considerable international disparities in household debt relief programs,...
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Call for papers: Conference on Corporate Governance
2024-02-06
We invite submissions of papers on issues relating to corporate finance for a conference in Stockholm, on August 27-28, 2024. Submission deadline: March 31, 2024.
