Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Gosia Majewska, Toulouse School of Economics (ENTER), presenting "Merger and Advertising in the Pharmaceutical Industry". We study how price and advertising strategies change when firms merge in pharmaceutical markets in the US. Using some known value of the sensitivity of innovation to profits, we evaluate the welfare effects of such merger, accounting for the induced welfare value of future innovation in the trade-off between short run consumer surplus and long run innovation.

Associate Professor Stefano Tasselli from Rotterdam School of Management presented research on how network brokerage shapes innovation in the health care sector.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Elie Tamer, Harvard University, presenting "Information Robust Inference in Structural Models".

House of Innovation welcomed PhD Students, Post Docs and Faculty to a workshop with Erling Persson Visiting Professor Amy Edmondson from Harvard Business School on "How to conduct and communicate research that impacts practice".

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss, NHH, presenting "Misperceived Returns to Active Investing: Evidence From a Field Experiment Among Retail Investors". We conduct a field experiment with a sample of retail investors. Treated respondents are 17.4 percentage points more likely to think that index funds will outperform active funds in the future. Our main result is that treated respondents increase the index fund share of their portfolio by 4.6 percentage points (39 percent) relative to control group respondents.

Welcome to the joint 30th Alumni Reunion for you who started at SSE in 1990 and 1991!

Professor Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College Business School, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and CEPR)

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Peter Hull, Brown University, presenting "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks". We develop a new approach to estimating the causal effects of treatments or instruments that combine multiple sources of variation according to a known formula, and use this approach to address bias when estimating employment effects of market access growth from Chinese high-speed rail construction.

Misum is delighted to host Professor Leonard Wantchekon from Princeton University who will give a special guest lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Emil Bustos defends his PhD dissertation “Essays on Firms' Hiring, Investment and Risk Management Decisions” on May 10, 2022.