News at IIES
- Successful thesis defense for Has Van Vlokhoven 2020-05-28 On 27 May, IIES graduate student Has Van Vlokhoven successfully defended his thesis: On the Cost of Capital, Profits and the Diffusion of Ideas. Due to COVID-19, it took place via Zoom and this was the first time the IIES held a defense remotely.
- Agneta Berge on her visit to UC Berkeley 2020-05-19 IIES Graduate Student, Agneta Berge, has recently returned from a two month visit to UC Berkeley. Read more about here experiences here.
- Peter Nilsson promoted to Professor 2020-05-11 Associate Professor Peter Nilsson was promoted to Professor as of April 30 2020.
- Francesco Loiacono has returned from Chicago 2020-05-07 Graduate Student Francesco Loiacono spent 6 months at Chicago Booth to further his research within development economics. Upon his recent return, we were eager to hear about his stay abroad.
- New Research Assistants to join the IIES 2020-04-17 Juan Llavador Peralt, Ida Kristine Haavi and Jinci Liu will join the IIES as RAs in September 2020!
- Kieran Larkin - new Assistant Professor at the IIES! 2020-03-16 The IIES is absolutely thrilled to welcome Kieran Larkin (PhD from University College London - UCL) as Assistant Professor as of September 2020.
- Jonna Olsson awarded the Arnbergska Prize 2020-03-13 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Jonna for her thesis "Work, Wealth and Well-being"
- New Assistant Professors to join the IIES! 2020-02-26 We are very happy to have Laia Navarro-Sola (Northwestern U) & Joshua Weiss (NYU) join the IIES faculty.
- John Hassler new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) 2020-02-21 IIES Professor John Hassler is one of three newly elected members to KVA's class of social sciences.
- Undergrad Thesis Prize awarded to Caroline Olsson 2019-12-05 IIES Research Assistant and Data Analyst, Caroline Olsson, has received the inaugural Undergraduate Thesis Prize for Global Priorities Research from the Forethought Foundation.
- Kurt Mitman joins Restud as Joint Managing Editor! 2019-11-07 Restud (The Review of Economic Studies) is one of the world's leading economics journals.
- Successful thesis defense for Saman Darougheh 2019-10-28 Saman's thesis "Search and Mismatch" seeks to understand the frictions that exist in markets, and what implications they have for the economy.
- Timo Boppart to join the editorial board of ReStud! 2019-10-17 Associate Professor Timo Boppart, will join the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies - one of the top economics journals in the world.
- Jonna Olsson has successfully defended her thesis! 2019-10-07 Jonna's thesis reflects her interest in the branch of macroeconomics referred to as heterogeneous agent models and her belief in the need to analyze individual behavior and not only aggregates when trying to understand many economic issues.
- Serena Cocciolo has successfully defended her thesis! 2019-10-04 On 23 August, Serena Cocciolo, successfully defended her thesis "Participatory Governance and Public Service Provision". Many thanks to Michelle Brock (EBRD) for acting as opponent!
- Successful thesis defense for IIES graduate student Matti Mitrunen! 2019-09-06 This afternoon graduate student Matti Mitrunen successfully defended his thesis "Essays on the Political Economy of Development"
- Per Krusell receives an Honorary Doctorate from EUI. 2019-07-22 Recently Per Krusell was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from EUI for his great contributions to the development of modern (macro) economics.
- What keeps Economists awake at night? 2019-07-01 Tessa Bold and Per Krusell reveal what keeps them awake at night.
- Congratulations Jósef Sigurdsson! 2019-06-11 Today IIES graduate student Jósef Sigurdsson successfully defended his doctorial thesis.
- Congratulations Per Krusell! 2019-05-22 The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has decided to award Per Krusell with “The Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations' Professorship in Economics”, 2019.
- Jaakko Meriläinen has successfully defended his thesis. 2019-05-20 IIES graduate student Jaakko Meriläinen has successfully defended his thesis" Essays in Political Economics.
- Mitch Downey's interview 2019-06-20 Mitch Downey shares his true feelings about working at the IIES and living in Stockholm.
- IIES graduates accept new positions. 2019-04-24 We are very happy that our graduate students have accepted new positions. We wish them the very best in the future.
- Ingvild Almås to publish in Journal of Political Economy 2019-04-26 Ingvild Almå's paper “Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians?” accepted for publication in JPE.
- Timo Boppart and Kurt Mitman are granted tenure at IIES 2019-04-12 We are delighted to announce that Timo Boppart and Kurt Mitman, two of the world's leading young macroeconomists have been granted tenure here at IIES.
- John Hassler elected as the new vice chairman of IVA's IX-Economy department. 2019-12-02
- Tobias Broer and Per Krusell to publish in the Review of Economic Studies 2019-04-12 The paper "The New Keynesian transmission mechanism: a heterogeneous agent perspective", by Tobias Broer, Per Krusell and co-authors, has been accepted for publication in the Review of Economic Studies.
- Peter Nilsson awarded fellowship by NHH 2018-12-13 Assistant Professor Peter Nilsson has been awarded the 2019 Agnar Sandmo Junior Visiting Fellowship by the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH.