Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Luca Repetto, Uppsala University, who will present “Scars of War: the local legacy of WW1 deaths across generations of British Soldiers.” We study the local legacy of the WW1 mortality shock and its effects on British soldiers' behaviour in WW2. Using parish-level data, we show that those places suffering more losses in WW1 also experienced more deaths in WW2. We present further evidence that the legacy of the Great War may run through and be amplified by a civic capital channel that is fostered by the process of the remembrance and commemoration of fallen soldiers.

This “campfire” event welcomed entrepreneurship scholars from within Sweden but also those with whom we are connected, invited us to come together and celebrate Sweden’s success in entrepreneurship scholarship while looking at how we can continue moving forward to build a global and sustainable future.

We invited design students interested in doing a Master degree to the launch event for this year's Michael Treschow Scholarship.

Andrew Proctor defends his PhD dissertation “Essays on Cognitive Skills, Human Capital and Econometric Methods” on January 17, 2023.

Oliver Engist defends his PhD dissertation “Microeconometric Applications in Corporate Finance and Sports” on June 2, 2022.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Clementine Van Effentere, University of Toronto, presenting "Does Better Information Reduce Gender Discrimination in the Technology Industry?” In spite of the large literature documenting discrimination in various contexts, we know little about the impact of providing additional objective information about candidates’ abilities on gender differences in labor market outcomes. We study this question by leveraging data on over 60,000 online interviews for soft- ware developers, combined with the quasi-random introduction of a device providing an objective measure of candidates’ coding and problem solving performance. We provide suggestive evidence that for a given objective performance, women receive lower subjective ratings than men.

Assistant Professor Man Yang from Hanken School of Economics presented a paper on how virtual entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurial ventures coevolve in tackling grand challenges such as the global pandemic.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Alejandro Puerta (ENTER) presenting "Inferring neighborhood rates of uncaptured crime suspects: Potential crime communities in Medellin." We exploit a novel dataset consisting of confidential reports of residential addresses at the moment of capture of a suspect of a crime, so as to identify neighborhoods where relatively more suspects live. We find that `"crime communities'' depend both on the crime typology and time.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Tong Li, Vanderbilt University, who will present “Identification of Bayesian Games.” This paper studies the identification problem for Bayesian games within the private type paradigm when the researcher cannot perfectly know players’ payoff structures.

We had the honour to welcome this year's winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy, to the House of Innovation! In an industry seminar, she shared her latest insights on how to advance the entrepreneurial skill set. The session was free and open to anyone interested in entrepreneurship and innovation.