Scholarships to PhD students

The Siamon Foundation awards scholarships to Zhiheng Xu and Juan Felipe Ladino Mateus, PhD students from the Department of Economics.

Bild av Zhiheng och Juan
Zhiheng Xu and Juan Felipe Ladino Mateus, Department of Economics, Stockholm University. Photos: private

The foundation annually hands out scholarships in political science and economics, prioritising travel grants for participation in scientific conferences.

On 5–9 June, Zhiheng Xu took part in the Summer school market microstructure at the University of Edinburgh Business School, with his article "Battle of speed: A race to the top or a race to the bottom?".

Read more about the course here

Juan Felipe Ladino Mateus will participate in the annual Louis-André Gérard-Varet (LAGV) Public Economics Conference at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, between 28 and 30 June. He has written the article "Command and can't control: An evaluation of centralized accountability in the public sector", together with Saad Gulzar, Princeton University, Daniel Rogger, World Bank/DIME, and Muhammad Zia Mehmood, University of California, Berkeley.

Read more about the conference here