Research in the spotlight
Explore the latest research from the Swedish House of Finance.
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Nobel laureate research: “The welfare debate can learn from contract theory”
2016-01-12
How do you make people cooperate when their interests are not exactly the same? That’s’ what contract theory is all about, explains Per Strömberg, professor at Swedish House of Finance and chairman of...
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Executive education for the financial industry
2015-12-08
Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education has been around since 1960 and the education has always been based on the research and faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics. Per Strömberg and...
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High frequency trading changing markets
2015-11-21
High frequency trading is a relatively new phenomenon that has been used on the Swedish market since 2010. Björn Hagströmer and Lars Nordén, based at Stockholm University, are visiting research...
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Beyond financial returns – the new world of sustainable investing
2015-11-11
An increasing number of investors are concerned with the wider impact of their investment decisions, above and beyond the financial returns generated. On November 9, a seminar and panel discussion on...
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Big Data and Real-Time Economic Measurement
2015-09-08
Governments have always tried to predict where the economy is heading. On September 7 Google Chief Economist Hal Varian visited Stockholm School of Economics to talk about how data from private...
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Insurance Economics
2015-08-26
On August 24 – 25, 2015 SIFR gathered academics, practitioners and regulators for a two day conference on Insurance Economics: New Risks, New Regulation, New Approaches.
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House price bubble set to burst?
2015-07-07
– It’s going to be worse before it gets better. For a long time I felt that no – this is not a bubble. But now I’m less confident. Households seems to still expect further price increases and that’s a...
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High equity exposure in the default fund “Såfan”
2015-07-07
Magnus Dahlquist is Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has studied the effects of the new pension system introduced in 2000 and...
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Young firms key to job creation
2015-07-07
David Robinson is Professor of Finance at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. He is also member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swedish House of Finance and regularly visits Sweden. On...
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Macroprudential policies in a low interest rate environment
2015-06-23
On June 22, 2015 the Swedish House of Finance together with the Riksbank, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and Vinnova organized a seminar about macroprudential policies in an economy with...
