Horng Chern Wong, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, recently published a paper in American Economic Review, which highlights the importance of workers’ bargaining power in a market economy.
A new research project examines what drives families’ school choices. Do they choose schools based on quality, or on the types of pupils who already attend them? Jonas Vlachos, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, and Helena Svaleryd, Professor at Uppsala University, have been awarded funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Over the past few decades, housing wealth in Sweden has more than quadrupled. The sharp increase is primarily due to a prolonged decline in real interest rates and the financial crisis of the 1990s, says Roine Vestman, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, in the financial news outlet EFN.
At the beginning of September, Thomas Hierons joined the Department of Economics as a postdoctoral scholar. Most recently, Thomas spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.
On 16 October 2026, Chiara Latour defended her doctoral thesis in economics at Stockholm University. Chiara has already begun a career as a consultant in competition economics.
Digital platforms have become increasingly important to our everyday life. If used and understood correctly, they can bring real value to society, Chiara Latour establishes with her PhD thesis in economics.
On 15–16 September, Stockholm hosted the First Women’s Network Conference. The conference is part of a new network for women in economics, initiated by Laura Montenbruck, a researcher at Stockholm University.
Lennart Erixon, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Stockholm University, and Samuel Färdow Kazen propose a new economic policy reform for Sweden. The reform would improve the effectiveness of monetary policy and increase financial stability, they write in Ekonomisk Debatt.
The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2026 has evaluated over 2,000 world universities across 57 subjects. Economics at Stockholm University tops the list of Swedish universities.
Since 1990, the prize is awarded to the best article of the year published in the Review of Income and Wealth. Markus Pettersson, researcher in economics at Stockholm University, is one of the 2025 winners.
Research is used to justify aid decisions rather than to guide them, argues Andreas Madestam, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. In a new book about development aid, he examines how organizational structures and incentives limit the influence of research on aid decisions and proposes three reforms.
Extraversion is becoming increasingly valuable in the labor market, according to new research by Joonas Tuhkuri at Stockholm University and Ramin Izadi at the VATT Institute for Economic Research.
