2025-09-25

Stockholm Business School

New research debunks the “Virtue of Complexity in Return Prediction” in finance

In “Simplified: A Closer Look at the Virtue of Complexity”, Professor Daniel Buncic has released a new study that disputes the findings of one of the most hotly debated papers in quantitative finance this summer.

2025-09-08

Stockholm Business School

Do firms engineer “toxic” capital structures to stave off bankruptcy?

In Stayin’ Alive: Debt Complexity as a Bankruptcy-Delaying Mechanism, recently accepted for publication in Journal of Corporate Finance, Håkan Jankensgård of Stockholm Business School, with co-authors Jens Forssbaeck and Reda Moursli, investigate how financially distressed companies use complex debt structures to prolong their survival.

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2025-06-02

Higher emission prices can accelerate the green transition

Carbon pricing is often highlighted as a key tool for reducing emissions and driving the green transition. But does it actually work in practice? Gustav Martinsson, a professor of Finance at Stockholm Business School, studies whether putting a higher price on carbon leads to lower emissions.

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2025-05-16

Stockholm Business School

Why we dare to take financial risks – How the labour market, culture, and knowledge influence us

Why do some people choose to start their own business when their job situation feels uncertain? How do our cultural roots influence our willingness to take risks?

Economy and Society - Theme page

2025-05-05

Stockholm Business School

Two Articles Accepted for Publication in Top Three Finance Journals

Professor Ai Jun Hou and Assistant Professor Ran Xing have each an article accepted in the field of Finance.

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2025-02-25

Stockholm Business School

The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions

The article “The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax” published in the Review of Financial Studies.

2024-11-26

Stockholm Business School

Where do insiders trade?

In the article Bright Light, Dark Room: Where do Corporate Insiders Trade? Alexander Hübbert and Lars Nordén investigate the trading venue choices of corporate insiders.

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2024-10-24

Stockholm Business School

From Employee to Entrepreneur: The Role of Unemployment Risk

The article, “From Employee to Entrepreneur: The Role of Unemployment Risk,” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.

2024-08-26

Stockholm Business School

Nobel prize laureate visited SBS

Paul Milgrom, professor at Stanford, gave a keynote speech at the Summer School in Market Microstructure that was hosted by Stockholm Business School in July 2024.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2024-08-13

Stockholm Business School

International Finance Summer Course

We are excited to share the highlights from our PhD-level summer course on International Finance, held from August 5-9, 2024.

2024-03-22

Stockholm Business School

New thesis on Financial market structure

Chengcheng Qu has completed his doctoral studies in financial economics with the thesis Competition, Division, and Unity - The Impact of Market Structures on Trading Quality.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2024-01-23

Stockholm Business School

Green links: corporate networks and environmental performance

Michał Dzieliński and Lu Liu, both at the Finance section, recently got their article “Green links: corporate networks and environmental performance” accepted for publication in the Review of Finance, one of the top journals in finance.

2023-11-16

Stockholm Business School

The Skandia Theses Award to Haiping Yu

The thesis titled "Flight to Climate: Liquidity Commonality in Brown Equities," is recognized as one of the two best master theses in financial economics by Thule Foundation at Skandia.

2023-06-13

Stockholm Business School

Research Grants to Stockholm Business School

The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, along with the Tore Browaldh Foundation, have decided to award the following research grants to Stockholm Business School.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2023-03-21

Stockholm Business School

Explicit and implicit value of high-turnover investment strategies

Ran Xing, assistant professor at the Finance section, Stockholm Business School, has been awarded with the Hans Dalborg Award for his research about explicit and implicit value of high-turnover investment strategies.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2023-01-24

Stockholm Business School

Research for real-world impact

Gustav Martinsson’s research is recognized for real-world impact.

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2022-12-01

Stockholm Business School

Two New Associate Professors joining the Finance Section

We are happy to announce that Håkan Jankensgård and Gustav Martinsson are joining the Finance Section as Associate Professors.

2022-09-13

Stockholm Business School

Ran Xing publishes in Journal of Finance

Ran Xing at the Finance section, Stockholm Business School, and his coauthors recently got an article accepted for publication in the top journal for research in finance, The Journal of Finance.

2022-04-07

Stockholm Business School

SBS Finance students win the SHoF thesis award

Jesper Andersson and Alexander Hübbert, students in the MSc program in Banking and Finance at Stockholm Business School, are awarded the Swedish House of Finance Master Thesis Award for 2021.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2022-01-28

Stockholm Business School

Machine Learning and the Stock Market

The article, entitled Machine Learning and the Stock Market, addresses the dispute between academia and investment professionals on the usefulness of technical analysis.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2022-01-21

Off-exchange Trading in Modern Equity Markets

Fatemeh Aramian defended her dissertation "Off-exchange Trading in Modern Equity Markets: A Market Microstructure Perspective on Systematic Internalizers" on January 10th at the Finance section, Stockholm Business School.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2021-12-03

Stockholm Business School

Ai Jun Hou has been appointed professor

To be a professor I feel it is literally to be a “person who professes” to a certain type of expertise or knowledge.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2021-12-03

Stockholm Business School

New Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF)

We are very happy and proud to announce that a new Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF) has been established at Stockholm University.

Economy and Society - Theme page

2021-12-03

Stockholm Business School

SBS Finance students win thesis award

Jesper Andersson and Alexander Hübbert have won the Skandia Theses Award. The two SBS Finance students share the award for the best Master’s thesis in Finance in Sweden in the academic year 20/21.

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2021-12-02

Stockholm Business School

Climate investments in the real estate and building sector.

New grant. A project at SBS Finance that will investigate climate investments in the real estate and building sector has been awarded SEK 973 000 from Vinnova.

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