News at IIES
- 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.
- Amortization demands lack demonstrable social benefits 2019-11-11 In an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter John Hassler, Harry Flam, Lars E.O. Svensson & Robert Boije argue that every economic-policy measure should show that the benefit exceeds the cost.
- Pull the emergency break for high-speed railways 2019-11-08 Harry Flam and John Hassler, together with colleagues from VTI, KTH and Örebro University, argue against high-speed railways in Sweden, in an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter.
- 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.
- Grant received for project: "Inequality in leisure across gender and income groups over time" 2019-10-23 How do individuals distribute their time between work and leisure and what role do differences in these play for inequality in living conditions?
- Almås, Boppart and Burchardi awarded grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2019-10-21 Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart and Konrad Burchardi have been awarded a grant of 7 385 000 SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to support their project "The Swedish Manufacturing Census: Digitization and Public Access."
- 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.
- The housing boom and bust in the U.S. 2019-10-07 IIES Associate Professor, Kurt Mitman's paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy. Ahead of publication, Kurt shared his thoughts on future research on the topic, as well as explained his paper further.
- 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!
- Peter Nilsson to publish in JPE 2019-09-24 Peter Nilsson's paper "Understanding How Low Levels of Early Lead Exposure Affects Children's Life Trajectories" (joint with Hans Grönqvist and Per-Olof Robling) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy (one of the top economics journals in the world).
- 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.
- Konrad Burchardi and Benedetta Lerva to publish in the QJE 2019-04-09 The paper "Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts", by Konrad Burchardi, Benedetta Lerva and collaborators, has been accepted for publication in the top 5 journal Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- IIES researchers receive funding for project on teamwork and gender discrimination 2018-12-06 Several researchers at the IIES have received funding for a project looking at how the prevalence of teamwork contributes to gender discrimination in the labor market.
- Torsten Persson awarded Distinguished CES Fellow 2018 2018-11-26 Professor Torsten Persson is awarded Distinguished CES Fellow 2018, given to an internationally renowned and innovative economist for outstanding contributions to economic research.
