News at IIES
- Successful thesis defense for Selene Ghisolfi 2020-10-28 On Thursday 22 October, IIES graduate student Selene Ghisolfi successfully defended her thesis "Fairness, Technology Adoption, Water Sanitation and Pandemic Control: Six essays on four topics in Development Economics"
- Ingvild Almås elected Member of the EEA Council 2020-10-26 As a council member, Ingvild will play an important part in strengthening the economic sciences in Europe.
- Meet new Graduate Student Stefan Hinkelmann 2020-10-16 Stefan Hinkelmann first joined the IIES as a Visiting Graduate Student, but wanted to stay and was accepted as a Graduate Student in 2020.
- Experts to comment on the 2020 Nobel Laureates 2020-10-12 Two researchers are available to give expert commentary on this year's Nobel Laureates in Economics.
- Konrad Burchardi elected member of the Editorial Board at ReStud 2020-10-06 The Review of Economic Studies (ReStud) is one of the leading economics journals in the world!
- Karin Kinnerud successfully defends her thesis 2020-09-21 On 11 September, Karin successfully defended her thesis "Financial Choice and Public Policy".
- Successful thesis defense for Kasper Kragh-Sørensen 2020-09-16 On 10 September IIES Graduate Student Kasper Kragh-Sørensen successfully defended his thesis "On Housing, Mortgages and Taxation".
- Benedetta Lerva successfully defends her thesis 2020-09-03 On Thursday 27 August, Benedetta Lerva successfully defended her thesis "Worms, Farms and Schools: Three Essays on Investment Choices in Uganda".
- Torsten Persson in the Government's Corona Commission 2020-07-03 A commission has been tasked with evaluating the measures taken by the Swedish government and regions to limit the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 as well as the effects of the spread.
- Tobias Broer promoted to Associate Professor 2020-06-18 Tobias originally joined the IIES as Assistant Professor in 2009 after having obtained his PhD from EUI in Florence, Italy.
- Grant received to study effects of pension reform 2020-06-17 Skandia's affiliated foundations have decided to support new research where the purpose is to study the effect of Sweden's reformed pension system on household savings.
- John Hassler new board member at FORES 2020-06-11 FORES is a green and liberal think tank. They are a foundation and non-profit NGO and seek to renew the debate in Sweden with a belief in entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for people to shape their own lives.
- Richard Foltyn successfully defends his doctoral thesis 2020-06-08 In his thesis, Richard investigates the savings and portfolio-choice decisions households make, and the underlying drivers of such decisions.
- 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!