We conduct research in areas such as labour market economics, political economics, development economics, macroeconomics, and financial economics. Read more about our research, seminar series, and publications in the sections below. Find our researchers, teachers and PhD students under the Contact section.
Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
A collaboration between Stockholm Business School (SBS), the Institute for International Economics Studies (IIES), and the Department of Economics (ECON).
If the e-krona becomes a reality, it could shift the balance of power in Sweden’s monetary system. In an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter, Lennart Erixon, professor emeritus of economics at Stockholm University, discusses why the move toward digital money has been so slow in Sweden.
Joonas Tuhkuri, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, was recently interviewed in the German daily newspaper Tagesspiegel. ”Economic growth in Finland has practically stagnated for two decades,” Tuhkuri says.
Lisa Laun, adjunct professor of economics at Stockholm University and researcher at IFAU, is one of the recipients of the Swedish Unemployment Insurance Funds’ 2025 Research Award. ”We look forward to continuing our research,” says Lisa Laun about the award.
How can the Nordic countries meet the challenge of future elder care as populations age and the workforce shrinks? That is the central question in a new research project, with David Seim, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, leading the Swedish part of the study.
