Dr. Wadid Lamine, Associate Professor at University of Ottawa, joined us to present his recent research on entrepreneurship in the space industry.

Department of Economics is welcoming you to online seminar with Vadim Marmer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver School of Economics, presenting "Identifying Collusion in English Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity", joint work with Andras Niedermayer and Art Shneyerov. Please note that the seminar will take place at 17h instead of the 15h30. This is an online seminar which will take place via Zoom.

This digital conference examined how Covid-19 has served to bolster entrepreneurship and innovation.

Join us for this online event organized together with CEMS, in which SSE/CEMS Alum and CEO of Daimler & Mercedes-Benz, Ola Källenius, will deliver a keynote speech on the future of sustainability in the automotive industry.

Department of Economics is welcoming you to online seminar with Jay Lee, post-doc at CREST, joining the Department of Economics at Stockholm University as Assistant Professor in September 2021. Jay Lee will present "How Do Political Parties Respond to Gender Quotas? Evidence from South Korea" (with Martina Zanella). Although gender quotas in politics are one of the most popular affirmative action policies worldwide, they might prove ineffective if they suffer from active resistance by incumbent males. South Korean municipal council elections provide us with a rare opportunity to observe how highly male-dominated political parties react to gender quotas. Gender quotas were implemented in only one out of two independent election arms, allowing us to observe what happened in the arm unconstrained by quota. We analyze the effect of the quota on parties' selection of candidates, by exploiting the discontinuity in the intensity of the quota at given cut-offs of council size. This is an online seminar which will take place via Zoom.

Joacim Tåg, associate professor at Lund University, presented research about CEO health and corporate Governance.

Department of Economics is welcoming you to online seminar with Yoko Okuyama, Assistant Professor of Economics, Uppsala University. Yoko will be presenting the topic "Empowering Women Through Radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan ". This study examines the impact of women's radio programs that the US-led occupying force aired in Japan (1945-1952) to dismantle the prewar patriarchal norms. Using local variation in radio signal strength driven by soil conditions as an instrumental variable, I provide causal evidence that greater exposure to women's radio programs increases women's electoral turnout, which further translates into a greater vote share for female candidates. This positive effect contributes to women's greater representation in the national legislature: had there not been women's radio programs in place, the number of female winners would have been halved. This is an online seminar which will take place via Zoom.

Ola Henfridsson, professor of business technology at Miami Herbert Business School, presented his latest research at House of Innovation. This seminar was organised in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics.

In recent years, travel and urban mobility have gone through significant evolution, creating challenges and opportunities for the sectors. These two industries have experienced high growth which has resulted in a competitive market, facing new regulations and navigating diverse environments across the globe. Join this webinar and listen to Henrik Kjellberg, CEO of Awaze, and Fredrik Hjelm, Founder of Voi, discuss their visions.

COVID-19 vaccination efforts are now starting in several countries around the globe and many believe that this is the way out of the pandemic crisis. The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) in collaboration with the FREE Network is delighted to invite you to a webinar to share insights and knowledge about how countries in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region, and the Caucasus region are handling the vaccination efforts against the COVID-19 crisis.