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Francesco Loiacono successfully defends his thesis

On 8 June Francesco successfully defended his thesis "Firms and Labor Markets: Essays in Development Economics".

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Francesco Loiacono's thesis available for download

The thesis "Firms and Labor Markets: Essays in Development Economics" consists of four chapters.

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Markus Peters successfully defends his thesis

On 2 June Markus successfully defended his thesis "Essays on Savings Behavior, Inflation Measurement, and Growth".

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Tillmann von Carnap successfully defends his thesis

On 1 June Tillmann successfully defended his thesis "Markets and marketplaces: Essays on access and transformation in remote rural economies".

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Markus Peters' thesis available for download

The thesis "Essays on Savings Behavior, Inflation Measurement, and Growth" consists of four chapters.

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Claire Thürwächter successfully defends her thesis

On 31 May Claire successfully defended her thesis "Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Firm Heterogeneity".

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Tillmann von Carnap's thesis available for download

The thesis "Markets and marketplaces: Essays on access and transformation in remote rural economies" consists of four chapters and can now be downloaded from the web.

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Claire Thürwächter's thesis available for download

The thesis "Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Firm Heterogeneity" consists of four self-contained essays.

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Report on the Swedish national bank (Riksbanken)

On May 23, an independent evaluation of Swedish monetary policy 2022, conducted by the Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF), was published.

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Mattias Almgren successfully defends his thesis

On Wednesday 24 May Mattias successfully defended his thesis "Essays on Home Production, Mobility, and Monetary Policy".

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Mattias Almgren's thesis available for download

Title: "Essays on Home Production, Mobility, and Monetary Policy". Mattias will defend his thesis on 24 May 2023.

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Annual Report 2022 available

Find out what we have been up to during the previous year.

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Get to know new Post Doc Sara Casella (U. Penn)

Sara will spend the academic year 2022/2023 at the IIES, funded by the Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF).

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ERC advanced grant to Jakob Svensson

Jakob has received EUR 2,1 Million for research on creating markets for quality for farmers in low-income countries

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Sebastian Tebbe joins CBS and UCSD

After a one year post doc in San Diego, Sebastian will head to Copenhagen to take up a position as Assistant Professor.

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Tillmann von Carnap to Uni Oslo and Stanford

After a 1-year post doc at Stanford Tillmann will be an Assistant Professor in Oslo.

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Markus Peters joins NordiCare

Job Market Candidate Markus Peters is taking up a position as Supply and Purchasing Manager

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Francesco Loiacono to the EBRD in London

Job Market Candidate Francesco Loiacono is taking up a position as Principal Economist.

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Gualtiero Azzalini to SSE and SHoF

Job Market Candidate Gualtiero Azzalini will start in August 2023.

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Claire Thürwächter joins Morgan Stanley

Job Market Candidate Claire Thürwächter will join their Macro Research Department.

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Markus Kondziella to join the University of St Gallen

Job Market Candidate Markus Kondziella has accepted a position as Assistant Professor

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Brian Higgins to join the IIES as Assistant Professor

Brian earned his PhD from Stanford University and we are thrilled to have him join us!

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International Economics Prize awarded to Torsten Persson

Torsten Persson, Professor at the Institute for International Economics Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University, is awarded the prestigious BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

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Torsten Persson awarded the Ann-Kersti and Carl-Hakon Swenson Prize

"for his internationally recognized, ground-breaking contributions to the understanding of the interplay between politics and economics..."

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Viktoria Kozek and Edvin Wastegård join the IIES as Research Assistants

We have two new Research Assistants joining us to assist in a project lead by IIES Associate Professors Kurt Mitman and Timo Boppart.

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New theoretical modeling of green transitions

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.

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The Minister of Finance's first meeting with the Economic Council

On Monday 25 January, the Economic Council (where IIES Professors Lars Calmfors and John Hassler are both members) had its first meeting.

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Swedish Institute for Social Research

We follow our older siblings' choice of higher education

Older siblings’ choice of higher education has a big impact on what their younger siblings apply for, even when it leads them to worse* education. This is the result of a new study with data from four countries, including Sweden and USA. The study is published in the highly ranked scientific journal The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Per Krusell (Photo: Niklas Björling/SU) and Roine Vestman (Photo: Rikard Kilström/SU)

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Large grant awarded for research on crises and economic inequality

The project aims to gain insights into how to design economic policies that effectively prevent and limit the consequences of crises.

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Grant awarded for a new way to measure rural economic activity

IIES researchers receive a grant of 7,6 MSEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

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Carolina Lindholm. Photo: Viktoria Garvare Mahdessian/IIES

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Carolina Lindholm joins the Swedish Ministry of Finance

Carolina joins Sweden's Ministry of Finance as State Secretary, with responsibility for tax issues.

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Markus Kondziella wins best paper award

At the SHoF 11th National PhD Workshop in Finance an award of 30, 000 SEK was awarded for best paper.

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Kieran Larkin to publish in Econometrica

Kieran's paper "(S)Cars and the Great Recession" has recently been accepted for publication in one of the top 5 economics journals in the world.

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New Graduate Students at the IIES

This year the IIES accepted no less than ten new graduate students. Learn more about them and their research here.

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Meet new Post Doc Ciaran Rogers

Ciaran Rogers will spend the academic year 2022/2023 at the IIES, funded by the Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF) at Stockholm University.

Lars Calmfors. Photo: Richard Kihlström/Stockholm University

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Podcast with Lars Calmfors on the universities' "third task"

Listen to four researchers' personal thoughts on the importance of communicating their research to a wider audience.

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Society's "outsiders" overrepresented among the Sweden Democrats' politicians

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.

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José-Elías Gallegos and Claire Thürwächter

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José-Elías Gallegos and Claire Thürwächter finalists for the annual ECB Young Economist Prize

Young economists can play an important role in shaping the future of Europe. Something that each year is recognized through the Young Economist Prize, a research competition that offers talented students the chance to share their fresh perspectives on today’s challenges. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.

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John Kramer successfully defends his thesis

On Wednesday 15 June, John successfully defended his thesis "Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Mobility".

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Successful thesis defense for Xueping Sun

On Monday 13 June, Xueping successfully defended her thesis "Essays on China’s Economic Development: Innovation, Public Debt and Social Connections".

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Join in and highlight the women who fought for the right to vote!

Together with Riksarkivet, IIES graduate students Mattias Folkestad and Monir Bounadi seek help from the public to digitize one of Sweden's largest political name collections.

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José Elías Gallegos successfully defends his thesis

On Friday 10 June, José successfully defended his thesis "Essays on Macroeconomics".

Laia Navarro-Sola. Photo: Jim Ziv Photography

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Laia Navarro-Sola to publish in Restud

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

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Ingvild Almås awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for research on global inequality

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.

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Register data will increase knowledge about the pandemic

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.

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