Mitch Downey comments on Musk’s $10bn share giveaway
Mitch Downey is featured in an Al Jazeera article examining Elon Musk’s $10 billion SpaceX share giveaway for US children.
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Get to know our new graduate students
We are pleased to welcome eight new graduate students, whose research covers a diverse range of fields, including family, labor, development, public, and macroeconomics, political economy, and finance.
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Timo Boppart on this year’s Prize in Economic Sciences: “A core macroeconomic question”
This year’s Prize in Economic Sciences was presented at the press conference by Timo Boppart at the Institute for International Economic Studies and member of the Prize Committee. Now he is looking forward to celebrate the Nobel laureates in Stockholm in December.
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Back at the IIES: Meet Karl Harmenberg
Karl recently joined us as Associate Professor. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between the business cycle and the labor market.
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Understanding inequality through data: Meet Ronja Helénsdotter
Our new Assistant Professor, Ronja Helénsdotter, joined the IIES in the beginning of September after two years as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.
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Chek Yin Choi successfully defends his thesis
His thesis explores how firms’ choices of suppliers, investments in technology and pricing decisions shape productivity, labour markets and inflation.
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Kurt Mitman promoted to Professor
Mitman joined the IIES as Assistant Professor in 2014 and has served as Associate Professor since 2019.
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How firms’ choices shape the wider economy
A new doctoral thesis by Chek Yin Choi at the IIES at Stockholm University, examines how firms' decisions shape productivity, labor markets and inflation.
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Torsten Persson on the rise of new political parties
In an interview with CorD Magazine, Professor Torsten Persson discusses why new political parties emerge and how they reshape political competition and representation.
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IIES researcher awarded prestigious recruitment grant from the Swedish Research Council
Karl Harmenberg, newly recruited Associate Professor at the IIES, is the only recipient from Stockholm University this year.
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Successful thesis defense for Juan Llavador Peralt
His thesis explores how the behavior of firms—especially large ones—shapes economic growth and the persistence of inflation.
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Jonatan Riberth successfully defends his thesis
His thesis explores how personal experiences shape healthcare decisions and how inequality persists across generations through family resources and background.
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