Left to right: Niklas Amberg, Valeri Sokolovski and Per Åhblom

The Research Scholarship Taskforce is proud to announce the following winners of the 2017 Peter Högfeldt Award for their outstanding PhD theses:  

Niklas Amberg, in Economics
Thesis: Firms and Banks in the Macroeconomy: Empirical Essays using Microeconometric Methods

Valeri Sokolovski, in Finance
Thesis: Essays on Currency Risk and Financial Frictions

Per Åhblom, in Business Administration 
Thesis: The Financial Performance: A study of how financial numbers become meaningful