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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. 

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”.

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.

The Department has admitted 13 new doctoral students to the PhD program. They will be starting in August.

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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.

Gustav Karreskog receives the Wallander Scholarship for his research on human decision-making in strategic situations. The scholarship implies three years of funded research.

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. 

The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala has awarded Professor Oskar Nordström Skans the Thuréus-prize for "his outstanding research in labor market economics".

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala has awarded Arizo Karimi the Benzelius prize for 2020 for "her outstanding research on family economics".

Handelsbanken has made the decision to award 10 researchers and PhDs stipends from their memorial funds. Congratulations to you all!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The department has admitted 11 new PhD students to the PhD program. They will be starting August 17, 2020.

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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.

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.

At the General Meeting on 12 February Eva Mörk was elected a member of the Academy’s class for social sciences.

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.

The Nobel Laureates in Economics 2019 just visited Ekonomikum and gave an open lecture on the research that led to the award.

Uppsala Municipality allocates SEK 3 million to a new research program aimed at strengthening the quantitatively oriented urban research.

Students and faculty members interested in political economy gathered for a one-day workshop in the Economics department on the 19th of November. 

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.

The department has admitted 11 PhD students to the PhD program starting autumn 2019.

Welcome to the department!

Swedish municipalities are facing major challenges in the future. An aging population implies an increased demand for care services. At the same time, a decreasing number of people of working age will have to provide for an increasing number of people who do not work. Furthermore, Sweden has undergone a significant process of urbanization that has led to substantially different conditions for urban and rural municipalities, respectively. In addition, Sweden has received a large number of refugees, many of whom are young, which entails challenges for the education sector.

Peter Fredriksson has been elected new Chairman of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Three research projects receive SEK 12,869,000 in total from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) and Forte.

Gunnar Brandén defends his thesis  “Understanding Intergenerational Mobility. Inequality, student aid, and nature-nurture interactions” on 17 December at 13:15 in hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10.

Arizo Karimi's research on the effects of the Swedish reform in 1995, aimed at encouraging fathers to take some leave after the birth of a child, mentioned as an American Economic Association Research Highlight.

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.