Chakad Ojani has been admitted to the Pro Futura Sciencia programme for promising early-career scholars. In the coming five years he will be working on the project ‘Oceans in the sky’ that deals with fog capture in coastal Peru.
In an extended episode of Agenda (SVT) on 28 May, politicians and researchers were interrogated about inflation and the challenging economic situation in Sweden.
On 23 May, an independent evaluation of Swedish monetary policy 2022, conducted by the Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF), was published.
Neslihan Özlü aspires to create knowledge about the drivers of this “behavioral heterogeneity” with the four studies in her dissertation The Heterogeneity of Behavior in Operations Processes.
Anna Seim, Associate Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, is a member of the council. The publication on 10 May is followed by an event on Friday 12 May.
SOFI's educational unit, AKPA, offers basic-level courses in labor market economics. Tuesday, May 2, AKPA organizes an alumni meeting where former students talk about their career paths.
Stockholm University has appointed Jim Albrecht and Susan Vroman as honorary doctors 2023. Both are professors of Economy at Georgetown University, USA, and have collaborated with Peter Skogman Thoursie, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, for more than a decade.
Ferenc Szucs, Assistant Professor of Economics, has published a paper on the subject of discretion and favoritism in public procurement, in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
It is often assumed that the expansion of private pensions is likely to increase income inequality among retired elderly. But in countries where private pensions have expanded the most, income inequality has not. This is one of the results of a new dissertation in sociology at SOFI.
In their article "Trade, location, and multi-product firms", Rikard Forslid och Toshihiro Okubo examine how trade liberalization affects the location and the product scope of firms.
Laure Doctrinal, PhD student in sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) and the Department of Sociology defends her thesis "Old and Unequal?: An Institutional Analysis of Pension Systems' Driving Forces and Outcomes in Affluent OECD Countries".
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.
Torsten Persson, Professor at the Institute for International Economics Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University, is awarded the prestigious BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
Online and omnichannel retail led to changes in customer behavior that speak to the relevance of logistics. Therefore, logistics has moved from being a back-office operation to sitting at the forefront of retailers´ service offerings.
New research by Professors Torsten Persson (IIES) and Timothy Besley (LSE) shows how market failures, as well as policy failures, can prevent welfare-enhancing green transitions, or make ongoing green transitions too slow.
The work with forest preservation in southwestern Ethiopia, where smallholder coffee farmers play an important part, is essential for global sustainability. But there are also negative consequences to the synergy between smallholder cash crop production and biodiversity values. A new study conducted by researchers from Stockholm University, published in the International Journal of Educational Development, shows that child labour plays an important role in the system.
Researchers at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) organise The Stockholm Health Day, a workshop on the topic of children and health. The workshop aims to bring together researchers to lay the foundation for a network within health economics.
After reserving a second month of parental leave benefits, fathers’ uptake of parental leave in the first two years of the child’s life increased even more if they were also exposed to indirect reform effects, via their coworkers. This is found in a recent dissertation in economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), studying the introduction and expansion of parental leave quotas in Sweden, and how the parental leave of fathers may be affected by the uptake of their coworkers.
In a new article in The Conversation, SOFI-researcher José Montalbán Castilla discusses effects of having free school lunch for children. How does the students’ academic career, health and work life benefit from having free school lunches early in life? José Montalbán Castilla summarizes the different school lunch systems across the world, and highlights evidence from Sweden.
Stockholm University ranks first in the Nordic region and third in Europe in terms of the number of start-up companies in the tech industry – so-called “unicorns” – that were started by former students.
We invite researchers at all stages of their career to The Stockholm Health Day on the topic of Children and Health 2022, October 20-21 at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Recent research to be published in the Review of Economic Studies, shows that Sweden Democrat local politicians to a large extent come from marginalized groups in society.
In the paper “What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output”, Laia (together with Diether W. Beuermann, Inter-American Development Bank, C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and Francisco Pardo, University of Texas at Austin) explores whether school’s causal impacts on test scores measure their overall impact on students
To understand and reduce economic inequalities, both locally and globally, we need to acknowledge inequalities within households. Yet, in most empirical studies, such inequalities are disregarded mainly because we lack appropriate measurement tools and data.
What has the pandemic meant for public health and the economy? This is a question that a recently awarded grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond will hopefully help researchers provide answers to.
In addition to the positive effects of having high grades in itself, being top of the class increases the probability that a student finishes a longer education or gets a higher income later in life. For students at the lower end of the grade distribution, being a bit more highly ranked compared to other students in the school increases the probability of finishing upper secondary school. These are the results of a new dissertation in economics from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
Men with foreign-sounding names applying for a job receive significantly fewer responses to their applications than female applicants with a foreign-sounding name. Both male and female recruiters appear to discriminate against them, although in different occupational groups.
Mohamed Mahieddine defended his PhD thesis Before Audit. Essays on the necessity of imagination on May 25th at the Accounting section at Stockholm Business School.
The workshop’s aim was to facilitate the sharing of ideas about sustainability and justice related to energy use in a new geopolitical context. Its purpose was to contribute to further academic, economic and political engagement between Latin America and the Nordic countries. Oslo, May 9, 2022.
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.
Researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre are awarded a research grant of SEK 50 million by Mistra for research on how the financial sector can work for biodiversity.
Would you like to share a car with your neighbors, or have a total stranger sleeping in your spare room? If your answer is yes – does your family agree? DSV researcher Airi Lampinen studies interpersonal aspects of the hyped sharing economy.
The article, entitled Machine Learning and the Stock Market, addresses the dispute between academia and investment professionals on the usefulness of technical analysis.
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.
The purpose of the book is to arrive at a holistic understanding of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on politics, economy, business, and society in a globalized world.
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.
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.
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.
The award is presented by the Critical Management Studies Department of the Academy of Management. Yashar Mahmud defended his thesis at Stockholm Business School in 2020 and today he is an assistant professor at the Management Section.
An unconventional approach to fighting poverty is being tried out in Kenya. Poor families are given a cash sum to use entirely as they see fit. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Johannes Haushofer is studying how the money impacts their lives and wellbeing, as well as the socioeconomic effects of the payments.
This research project aims to examine how Vocational and Educational Training responded to the structural changes in the labour market and the role it played in the inclusion of immigrants in Sweden from the 1950:s to 2020.
After an almost unbroken, two-decade-long rise, Swedish housing prices fell sharply in 2022. But even if real estate price contractions are regarded as an important factor behind financial crises and economic recession, is our knowledge about them limited by the lack of historical data.
Can AI help us come to terms with fraud? In this project, we use machine learning models to identify indicators for unclear insurance claims in order to deter suspicious damage payments and insurance fraud.
Working with humans is incredibly difficult for robots. This project aims to develop new ways for robots and intelligent agents to understand, interact with, and adapt to the complex and collaborative ways we humans work together to get through our everyday lives.
The school in Sweden is supposed to be equal, but where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for their opportunities to reach the national knowledge requirements. Two schools that break this pattern piqued the researchers' curiosity.
This project offers a new understanding of how, under which circumstances and why different forms and degrees of coercive regulations and practices have shaped the labor market and working conditions in Sweden.
"Tolfterna" was an association founded by, among others, Ellen Key in 1892. Its goal was partly to give working class women the opportunity of popular education, partly to even out the differences between the bourgeois and the socialist women's movement through discussion groups. How did it work out in practice? What class-related tensions occurred?
PhD Project that aimes to examine how the aforesaid creditor groups is to be classified under the law and thereby find a legal foundation for the various group creditors’ internal legal relationship.
What made societies more or less vulnerable to food insecurity and famine in northern Europe (c. 1500–1800)? What part did climatic factors and socio-political factors play, respectively? How did these factors interact? This project combines sources and methods from historical scholarship and palaeoclimatology to examine these questions.
The Fractal Enterprise Model (FEM) provides a different way of looking at enterprises. It maps assets, processes and the connections between them. This PhD thesis project explores how FEM can be a guide to business transformation and digital innovation.
In this research project, we study how market reforms within the Swedish school system have changed the labour market for preschool staff, by investigating whether exposure to competition from private contractors has affected wages, staff turnover, and sickness absence among preschool staff.
Diversity is seen by Volvo as a tool for recruiting sought-after staff that can contribute to strengthened innovation capacity. For this to become a reality, research shows that diversity needs to be paired with active work for inclusion.
This research project focused on mechanisms that can contribute to a sustainable integration of skilled migrants in their vocations in Sweden. The study focused specifically on three vocational areas: the health care sector, the construction sector and the food sector.
The starting point of this project is that research on intergenerational socioeconomic persistence needs to resolutely shift the perspective away from ‘normative’ careers of ‘typical’ men to the actual Swedish population. We aim to broaden the perspective and redevelop concepts and theories to fit the experience of the entire population.
This program emphasizes the multidimensional character of inequality. We integrate the analysis of several central welfare dimensions and study how they cross-cut each other and co-evolve. Our approach is dynamic, following the development of e.g., economic resources, education, health and well-being across individual lives and generations.
This project aims to investigate the interrelations between CEOs’ behavioral traits and social capital and how such interrelations affect corporate policies such as capital structure, investments, risk taking and performance.
Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution.
Digital business ecosystem involves many actors and can be difficult to manage. This PhD thesis project aims to address management concerns by developing a modelling method supporting the dynamics and resilience of digital business ecosystems.
In this PhD thesis project, the KYKLOS method is developed. Its purpose is to provide methodological and tool support for changing organizations using enterprise modeling and a capability-oriented approach.
This project concerns the opportunities to strengthen educational and professional chances for students without complete compulsory education, a group running increased risks of future social exclusion. These young people are normally channeled into one of five introductory programs (IP), preparing for studies and/or work.
Residential segregation in combination with school choice polices has lead to increased school segregation, and this is no longer solely an urban phenomenon.
A study of measures in the establishment mission and how these affect employers’ recruitment decisions. The integration of refugees into the regular labor market takes a very long time. After eight years in Sweden, only about half are employed. The objective of the project is to study refugees' path towards employment the first years after arrival.
Today, there are 16 mines in Sweden, producing more than 70 million tons ore every year. By 2030, the Swedish government estimates that there will be about 50 mines producing well over 120 million tons.
Practicing Food Sovereignty focuses on indigenous communities and agricultural practices in four countries of the Eastern Himalaya region: Bhutan, Chittagong Hill Tracks of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Northeast India.
Network that gathers junior and senior researchers working with questions concerning privatisation and competition of services provided through the municipal personal social services in the Nordic countries.
"Privatising the central core of social work – staffing agencies and decision-making in the personal social services" is the full name of a research project led by Emelie Shanks.
Less accidents on the road, and more operational uptime. That is the expected outcome of this research project which uses data from trucks to develop new machine learning models. The models will let us know when maintenance is needed – before the vehicle breaks down.
This research project documents results, main challenges and successes of an international training programme on ICT regulation and formulates suggestions for improvement. Analyses of documentation and reports from programme participants are complemented by an OECD/DAC framework evaluation.
Segregation typically refers to the clustering of certain groups in residential areas, schools, or workplaces. But segregation is intimately related to how people interact with one another. This project thus considers segregation from the angle: access to urban amenities that promote social interactions, and their effect on integration.
As the Nordic population ages, there is a need to look at differences between different groups that arise as a result of how our health and care systems look.
What happens when your friend also becomes your customer? Today, social media often serves as a platform for business activities. This project explores how trust is built, and how it impacts social and commercial behaviour.
The development of wages during recent decades has in many countries encompassed increasing educational wage premia, the wage difference between college and non-college educated workers. This project focuses on the role of trade unions, and the wage bargaining system, for the development of the wage premium.
This project brings more nuance to the history of suffrage in Sweden. As history is usually written, 1921 marks the end of the struggle for suffrage. But rather than regarding the reform of 1921 as a definitive democratic breakthrough, the research project examines the events of the following century as a continuing but non-linear process of democratisation.
A dataset to study the causal effects of university education, exploiting a statistical technique called regression discontinuity. I study the returns to education (in terms of earnings and wealth), educational spillovers between siblings and across generations, and how university education can influence health and social preferences.
The aim of the project is to evaluate how regional differences in the supply of upper secondary programs affected wages, employment and other labor market-related outcomes for individuals who attended upper secondary school during the 1970s and 1980s.
What unites the researchers in this research group is that we share a vision of consumer culture as the interconnected system of commercially produced objects, images, and texts that various market actors use to construct and produce practices, identities and meanings.
The Emerging Markets Cross-Cultural Research Group is a Stockholm Business School (SBS) based network of researchers undertaking emerging markets driven and related research from cross-cultural cross-case interdisciplinary approaches.
We work on infectious-disease biology with a focus on host-pathogen-vector signalling-communication. We provide a fundamental/quantitative description of communication in infection-biology/behaviour plasticity, and genetics towards the design of novel scientific technologies.
All over the world, organizations are looking to perform better and gain competitive advantage by using IT and digital technologies. The IT Management and Governance group studies how to manage and govern IT and digital investments to support digital transformation.
The STIR group brings together a mix of technologists and social scientists. Together, we research and build new digital technologies. Our work is situated within the Human–Computer Interaction field.
The Care Research Group brings together scholars that study issues of disability, aging and long-term care related to social policy and organizational conditions, and how these interact with citizens’ different positions in the practice of social work.
The practice of psychosocial work is highly concerned with the interaction between individuals in need of care and social support and professional caregivers, including power relations in these relationships.
