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Tram Pham recieves the Karin Westman Berg-scholarship
The Karin Westman Berg scholarship fund awards Tram Pham, PhD student in economics, with the 2023 scholarship.
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Alumna Rebecca Cardebring awarded SOM Prize 2023
Rebecca Cardebring, alumna of the Department of Economics, has been awarded the SOM Institute's scholarship for the best student thesis based on data from SOM surveys in 2023. Rebecca has won the prize for her study on the demand for gender equality policies, which, among other things, shows that economic distress plays a very small role in this in Sweden.
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SEK 36.5 million for research programs in economics
Households and companies have different levels of vulnerability to fiscal stimulus measures. More effective economic policy can be designed through greater knowledge about these differences. This is the theme of a research programme in economics that has been awarded SEK 36.5 million from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
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Three positions in Economics posted on the Job Market
The Department of Economics at Uppsala University is recruiting for three different positions on the international job market for economists.
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Academic exchange in focus at this year's SUDSWEC
The yearly gathering of economics Ph.D. students from Uppsala University, Stockholm University, and Stockholm School of Economics marked a success as SUDSWEC returned to Uppsala. The event, which aims to foster academic exchange and connections among Stockholm-Uppsala economics Ph.D. students, attracted over 50 participants.
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Josefin Videnord defends her doctoral thesis "Trade, Innovation, and Gender"
On Friday, September 29, Josefin Videnord defends her doctoral thesis "Trade, Innovation, and Gender" in Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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Davide Cipullo awarded Arnberg Prize
We congratulate our former PhD student Davide Cipullo who has been awarded the Arnberg Prize 2023 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Cipullo recieves the award for his thesis Political Careers, Government Stability and Electoral Cycles.
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Difficult decisions led to unequal vaccination rates
There was a significant difference in the speed with which different groups were vaccinated against COVID-19. One explanation could be that people absorb information and make decisions in different ways. A new study shows that among people with the highest cognitive ability, 80% had been vaccinated within 50 days. Among those with the lowest cognitive ability, it took 180 days to achieve the same vaccination rate.
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Raoul van Maarseveen awarded the Benzelius prize
We are proud to announce that Dr. Raoul van Maarseveen has been awarded the Benzelius Award 2023 for his dissertation "Urbanization and Education. The Effect of Childhood Urban Residency on Educational Attainment."
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Job placements for job market-candidates
The department congratulates the following doctoral students on their success on the job market. We wish them all the best in their future careers!
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Edvin Hertegård will defend his doctoral thesis "Essays on Families, Health Policy, and the Determinants of Children's Long-Term Outcomes"
On Monday, June 12 at 09:15, Edvin Hertegård will defend his doctoral thesis Essays on Families, Health Policy, and the Determinants of Children's Long-Term Outcomes in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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Alice Hallman defends her doctoral thesis "Hypocrites, Devil's Advocates, and Bandwagoneers: Essays on Costly Signaling"
On Friday, June 9, at 10:15, Alice Hallman defends her doctoral thesis Hypocrites, Devil's Advocates, and Bandwagoneers: Essays on Costly Signaling in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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Uppsalaekonomerna – wins SM in Economics
We are proud to announce that Uppsalaekonomerna won this year's edition of SM in Economics.
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Maximiliano Sosa Andrés defends his thesis "A Risky and Polarized World: Essays on Uncertainty, Ideology and Foreign Policy"
On Friday, 12 May, Maximiliano Sosa Andrés defends his thesis "A Risky and Polarized World: Essays on Uncertainty, Ideology and Foreign Policy" at 13.15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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Arizo Karimi appointed to docent
Arizo Karimi. Photo David Naylor We congratulate Arizo Karimi who has been appointed to docent in Economics at Uppsala University.
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Admissions to the PhD program 2023
The department has admitted 5 new PhD students to the PhD program. They will start their position on 14 August 2023.
Welcome to the Department!
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Seminar: Is AI development going too fast?
Georg Graetz, associate professor of economics at the Department of Economics, is participating in a seminar on artificial intelligence at SNS on May 9.
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Simon Ek defens his thesis "Structural Change, Match Quality, and Integration in the Labor Market"
Friday the 21 April, Simon Ek will defend his thesis "Structural Change, Match Quality, and Integration in the Labor Market" at 13:15 in Hörsal 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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We welcome two guest researchers
We wish to welcome two guest researchers, Pauline Carry and Elio Nimier-David, to the department! They will be working from the department until 31 August.
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Researchers from the department in Ekonomisk Debatt
Two researchers from the Department of Economics, Professor Oskar Nordström Skans and doctoral student Akib Khan, have written articles in the latest issue of Ekonomisk Debatt.
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How are children affected when a parent loses their job?
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Wallander scholarships to Adrian Poignant and Lillit Ottosson
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Sofia Hernnäs defends her thesis "Automation and the Consequences of Occupational Decline"
On Friday the 2nd of December, Sofia Hernnäs defends her thesis "Automation and the Consequences of Occupational Decline" at 1.15 pm in lecture hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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Raoul van Maarseveen defends his thesis "Urbanization and Education"
On Friday the 25th of November, Raoul van Maarseveen defends his thesis "Urbanization and Education" at 10.15 am in lecture hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Welcome!
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Stipends from the Ingemar Carlsson Memorial Fund
The Economics Association in Uppsala annually awards stipends from the Ingemar Carlsson Memorial Fund to students who, through their thesis, have displayed a “special aptitude for the subject Economics”. Stipends this year total 24,000 SEK.
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Seminarium: "Ökar inflationen risken för höga kompensationskrav?" med Nils Gottfries och Anders Forslund
Nils Gottfries och Anders Forslund deltog i seminariet "Ökar inflationen risken för höga kompensationskrav?" den 30 september.
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Yaroslav Yakymovych defends his thesis "Workers and Occupations in a Changing Labour Market: The Heterogeneous Effects of Mass Layoffs and Social Safety Nets"
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Lillit Ottosson defends her thesis "From Welfare to Work: Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs"
Lillit Ottosson will defend her thesis "From Welfare to Work: Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs" on Friday 9 September at 10:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala.
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Teachers receive teaching awards
Two of our fantastic teachers have received teaching awards. Che-Yuan Liang received the Teacher of the year award from Föreningen Uppsalaekonomerna and Mikael Carlsson received the Uppsala Politiciesstuderande Teaching award 2022.
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Daniel Bougt defends his thesis "A Sequence of Essays on Sequences of Auctions"
Daniel Bougt will defend his thesis "A Sequence of Essays on Sequences of Auctions" on Friday 3 June at 2:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala.
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Joshua Angrist and David Card keynotes at the UCLS workshop
Joshua Angrist and David Card, who received the Sveriges Riksbank prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 (The Nobel prize for Economics), were keynote speakers at a workshop arranged by the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) at the Department of Economics. Around 70 participants took part during the day, which took place in the beautiful University Main Building.
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IMF presents latest World Economic Outlook report: A Greener Labor Market
Niels-Jakob H. Hansen and Phillip Barrett, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will join us at Ekonomikum on Wednesday 11 May, 09.15-10.00, Lecture hall 3, to present the key findings from the World Economic Outlook report, chapter 1: ”Global Prospects and Policies” and chapter 3 “A Greener Labor Market: Employment, Policies, and Economic Transformation”.
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Adrian Poignant defends his thesis Gold, Coal and Iron: Essays on Industrialization and Economic Development
On Tuesday May 24, Adrian Poignant will defend his thesis “Gold, Coal and Iron: Essays on Industrialization and Economic Development” at 10.15 in Lecture Hall 2, Ekonomikum.
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13 admissions to the PhD Program 2022
The Department has admitted 13 new doctoral students to the PhD program. They will be starting in August.
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New report: How many will flee from Ukraine and which EU countries will they go to?
12 million Ukrainians are assumed to seek protection in an EU country and 2.5 percent of them, or 300,000, will seek refuge in Sweden. This is a much higher forecast than what the Swedish Migration Agency has predicted. These are the results from a new study and a report by researchers at the Department of Economics in collaboration with Delmi.
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Gustav Karreskog receives the Wallander Scholarship
Gustav Karreskog receives the Wallander Scholarship for his research on human decision-making in strategic situations. The scholarship implies three years of funded research.
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Professor Peter Fredriksson gives speech at Nobel ceremony
As Chair of The Economic Sciences Prize Committee, Professor Peter Fredriksson will give a speech to the Nobel Prize Laureates at the City Hall (Stadshuset) in Stockholm during the prize ceremony on the Nobel day, 10 December, 16.15.
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Professor Oskar Nordström Skans awarded the Thuréus-prize
The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala has awarded Professor Oskar Nordström Skans the Thuréus-prize for "his outstanding research in labor market economics".
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Lena Hensvik inaugurated as new Professor
Lena Hensvik will be inaugurated as new Professor at the Department of Economics at the Grand Inauguration on 19 November. Already on 16 November, she will give her Inaugural Lecture Arbetsförmedling i en ny tid – Möjligheter och utmaningar med algoritmbaserad matchning på arbetsmarknaden in Sal IX in Universitetshuset at 13.15. The lecture can be attended in person or via livestream.
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Researchers receive almost 36 million SEK from Forte
The research programs "Structural change: consequences and policy responses" and "Understanding and advancing labor market integration in transitional times" receive almost 36 million SEK from Forte.
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Melinda Suveg defends her thesis "Finance, Shocks, Competition and Price Setting"
Melinda Suveg defends her thesis "Finance, Shocks, Competition and Price Setting" on September 13 at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held both digitally via Zoom and in the lecture hall, but the number of seats in the lecture hall is limited.
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Kerstin Westergren defends her thesis "Essays on Inflation Expectations, Monetary Policy and Tax Reform"
Kerstin Westergren defends her thesis "Essays on Inflation Expectations, Monetary Policy and Tax Reform" on September 9 at 15:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held both digitally via Zoom and in the lecture hall, but the number of seats in the lecture hall is limited.
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Charlotte Paulie defends her thesis "Essays on the Distribution of Production, Prices and Wealth".
Charlotte Paulie defends her thesis Essays on the Distribution of Production, Prices and Wealth on September 3 at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held both digitally via Zoom and in the lecture hall, but the number of seats in the lecture hall is limited.
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Vivika Halapuu defends her thesis Upper Secondary Education: Access, Choices and Graduation
Vivika Halapuu defends her thesis Upper Secondary Education: Access, Choices and Graduation on August 27 at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held both digitally via Zoom and in the lecture hall, but the number of seats in the lecture hall is limited.
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Sebastian Jävervall defends his thesis Corruption, Distortions and Development
Sebastian Jävervall defends his thesis Corruption, Distortions and Development, 20 augusti at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held both digitally via Zoom and in the lecture hall but the number of seats is limited.
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All Job Market Candidates recruited to new jobs
All our Job Market Candidates have been recruited to exciting, new jobs! Thank you for the years spent here at the Department as PhDs and good luck in your future careers!
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Lucas Tilley defends his thesis Inputs and Incentives in Education
Lucas Tilley defends his thesis Inputs and Incentives in Education, 7 June at 13:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held digitally via Zoom and in order to keep distance and reduce the risk of spreading the virus, the number of seats in the lecture hall is limited.
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Olle Hammar defends his thesis The Mystery of Inequality: Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
Olle Hammar defends his thesis The Mystery of Inequality: Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions, 4 June at 13:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence will be held digitally via Zoom, and the number of seats in the lecture hall is limited.
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An Unfortunate Loss? A Report on the Inheritance Tax to the Expert Group on Public Economics
In the new ESO report, Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson summarize the last decade’s research on the consequences of and attitudes toward inheritance taxation. Since the abolishment of the inheritance tax in Sweden in 2004, more than 30 Swedish research papers and reports have been written on different aspects of inheritances and the inheritance tax.
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Raoul van Maarseveen wins 2020 IPUMS Research Award
Raoul van Maarseveen's article “The Effect of Urban Migration on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Africa” has been selected as the 2020 winner of the IPUMS Research Award.
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Davide Cipullo defends his thesis Political Careers, Government Stability, and Electoral Cycles
Davide Cipullo defends his thesis Political Careers, Government Stability, and Electoral Cycles on Tuesday 27th of April at 14:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum. Please note that the defence is a digital event.
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Arizo Karimi awarded Benzelius prize
The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala has awarded Arizo Karimi the Benzelius prize for 2020 for "her outstanding research on family economics".
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André Reslow defends his thesis Electoral Incentives and Information Content in Macroeconomic Forecasts
André Reslow defends his thesis Electoral Incentives and Information Content in Macroeconomic Forecasts on Friday 19th of March at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that the defence is a digital event.
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Jonas Klarin defends his thesis Empirical Essays in Public and Political Economics
Jonas Klarin defends his thesis Empirical Essays in Public and Political Economics on Friday 12th of February at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence is a digital event.
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Anna Thoresson defends her thesis
Anna Thoresson defends her thesis Wages and their impact on individuals, households and firms on Friday 29th of January at 09:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence is a digital event.
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10 researchers and PhDs awarded stipends from Handelsbanken
Handelsbanken has made the decision to award 10 researchers and PhDs stipends from their memorial funds. Congratulations to you all!
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Lena Hensvik is awarded 12 millions by The Swedish Research Council
Lena Hensvik has received a grant of SEK 2 million over 6 years by The Swedish Research Council.The purpose of the grant is to give the most prominent junior researchers the opportunity to consolidate their research and broaden their activities as independent researchers.
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Stipends from the Ingemar Carlsson Memorial Fund
The Economics Association in Uppsala annually awards stipends from the Ingemar Carlsson Memorial Fund to students who, through their thesis, have displayed a “special aptitude for the subject Economics”. Stipends this year total 24,000 SEK.
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COVID-19: Limited impact of open schools on parents, but teachers affected more
Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite substantial uncertainty regarding the effectiveness in containing SARS-CoV-2. In Sweden, upper-secondary schools moved online while lower-secondary schools remained open. A comparison of parents with children in the final year of lower-secondary and first year of upper-secondary school shows that keeping the former open had limited consequences for the overall transmission of the virus. However, the infection rate doubled among lower-secondary teachers relative to upper-secondary ones. The infection rate among partners of lower-secondary teacher was 30 percent higher than among their upper-secondary counterparts.
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The Prize in Economic Sciences to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 to the Stanford researchers Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson.
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Maria Sandström defends her thesis
Maria Sandström defends her thesis Essays on Saving, Borrowing and Intangible Capital on Monday 12th of October at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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Jonas Cederlöf receives an honorable mention in the 2020 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award
The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research awards Jonas Cederlöf an honourable mention for his dissertation Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy.
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Paula Roth to new position at The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
On the 29th of May, Paula Roth defended her thesis, Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation, on how households and individuals are affected by income inequality, with a focus on consumption and saving decisions. A few days after obtaining her PhD, she started her new postdoc position at The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
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Dagmar Müller joins The Research Institute for Industrial Economics
Dagmar Müller defended her thesis Social networks and the school-to-work transition on June 12 and has just started working for The Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN).
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Dagmar Müller defends her thesis Social networks and the school-to-work transition
Dagmar Müller defends her thesis, Social networks and the school-to-work transition, on Friday 12th of June at 2:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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Maria Olsson defends her thesis Essays on Macroeconomics: Wage Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations
Maria Olsson defends her thesis Essays on Macroeconomics: Wage Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations on Wednesday 10th of June at 10:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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Tamás Vasi defends his thesis Banks, Shocks and Monetary Policy
Tamás Vasi defends his thesis Banks, Shocks and Monetary Policy on Monday 8th of June at 09:15 in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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Fredrik Hansson defends his thesis Consequences of Poor Housing- Essays on Urban and Health Economics
Fredrik Hansson defends his thesis Consequences of Poor Housing- Essays on Urban and Health Economicson Monday 1st of June at 1:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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NEW REPORT: The Individual welfare costs of stay-at-home policies
The paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the Swedish population. The results suggest that the welfare cost of a one-month stay-at-home policy, restricting non-working hours away from home, amounts to 9.1 percent of Sweden's monthly GDP.
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Jonas Cederlöf to University of Edinburgh
Jonas Cederlöf has accpeted the offer of a lecturer position, or perhaps more commonly known as an assistant professor position, at The School of Economics at University of Edinburgh. He defended his thesis Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy on the 15th of May and will start his new position on the 1st of October. In between, he intends to spend time with his son on some well earned parental leave.
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Paula Roth defends her thesis Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation
Paula Roth defends her thesis Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation on Friday 29th of May at 1:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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Dmytro Stoyko is defending his thesis Expectations, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy
Dmytro Stoyko is defending his thesis Expectations, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy, Wednesday 27th of May at 10:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence is taking place on a digital platform.
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Jonas Cederlöf defends his thesis Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy
Jonas Cederlöfs defends his PhD thesis Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy on Friday 15th of May at 2:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. The thesis defence will take place digitally, for the first time in the history of the Department.
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Maria Olsson recruited to Norway
Maria Olsson, one of our Job Market Candidates, has found a job at the Business School in Oslo. Maria Olsson will defend her thesis Essays on Macroeconomics: Wage Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations in June.
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Admission to the PhD Program 2020
The department has admitted 11 new PhD students to the PhD program. They will be starting August 17, 2020.
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New report on increasing achievement gap between immigrant and native pupils
Over the past ten years, the proportion of foreign-born pupils in grade 9 has doubled from 6 to 13 percent. This is a record increase. Hans Grönqvist at the Department of Economics and Susan Niknami at SOFI, Stockholm University, have mapped and analyzed the differences in study results between domestic and foreign-born pupils in primary and secondary education during the period 1990–2017.
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Yoko Okuyama will join the Department
We are delighted to announce that Yoko Okuyama, currently a PhD student in economics at Yale University, will start her work with the Department this fall.
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Eva Mörk elected as member of the Royal Academy of Sciences
At the General Meeting on 12 February Eva Mörk was elected a member of the Academy’s class for social sciences.
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Meet our new PhD Students!
In the autumn semester of 2019, 11 new doctoral students from across the globe started at the Department of Economics, all with different situations and backgrounds. Universen met the new doctoral students to ask why they applied for doctoral education at Uppsala University.
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Nobel Laureates in Economics lecture
The Nobel Laureates in Economics 2019 just visited Ekonomikum and gave an open lecture on the research that led to the award.
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Department of Economics and IBF in new collaboration with Uppsala Municipality
Uppsala Municipality allocates SEK 3 million to a new research program aimed at strengthening the quantitatively oriented urban research.
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Political Economy Workshop
Students and faculty members interested in political economy gathered for a one-day workshop in the Economics department on the 19th of November.
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TOP PUBLICATION: Understanding How Low Levels of Lead Exposure Affects Children's Life Trajectories, Journal of Political Economy
Hans Grönqvist's paper "Understanding How Low Levels of Lead Exposure Affects Children's Life Trajectories" (joint with Peter Nilsson and Per-Olof Robling) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy, one of the top economics journals in the world.
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EALE Conference 2019
EALE is Europe's largest labor market conference and brings together around 500 participants from around the world each year. This year, the conference is held for the first time in Uppsala and this is the second time it is being held in Sweden during its 31-year history. Uppsala university is hosting the conference through UCLS.