How experiences shape your brain and your finances
Is your brain your friend or your enemy when making financial decisions? Professor Camelia Kuhnen visited us to give a presentation about the brain science behind financial decision making. Watch her presentation here.
Christina Nyman New Board Member
Warm welcome to Christina Nyman, who joined the Swedish House of Finance Board.
Christina is Chief Economist at Handelsbanken and will bring valuable insight to the Swedish House of Finance.
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N E W S L E T T E R
From neuro economics to a new design for trading stocks. Topics have been diverse at our seminars this fall. Make sure not to miss out on the upcoming events listed below. We will cover subjects such as the banking union, behavioral economics and women in finance.
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We are looking forward to welcoming you to our activities during the remainder of the year.
Podcast: A New Design for Trading Stocks
Welcome to the second episode of the Swedish House of Finance podcast series.
Our guest is Professor Albert "Pete" Kyle. Join us for a discussion about his proposal of a new design for trading stocks. Listen here.
Financial markets and corporate decisions
Two full days of presentations and discussions of the flow of information between firms and financial markets. Take part of the presentations or a summary of the Swedish House of Finance annual conference here.
Per Strömberg comments on EQT IPO
Will EQT be able to deliver returns to both private equity fund investors and stock market investors? Read Affärsvärlden-article (in Swedish) here. Or SvD-article here.
Reform proposals for the housing market
Peter Englund in Swedish newspaper DN about his reform proposals for the Swedish housing market.
Read here.
London and Hong Kong under pressure
Bo Becker comments on London and Hong Kong as future leading financial hubs in DN (in Swedish). Read here.
Nasdaq Educational Foundation & CQA Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Award
Yingjie Qi received the award at the European Finance Association annual meeting in Lisbon. Congratulations Yingjie! Read more here.
Master Thesis Award contributed by Nasdaq Nordic Foundation
Congratulations Jesper Warén and Sebastian Zettergren. With the paper
”The influence of M&A advisors on pre-bid run-ups”
they were awarded first prize.
Read more here.
We congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer!
”Experimental evaluations of microfinance programs, teacher’s incentives, and subsidized health-care products are some of the many contributions behind this years’ Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel."
Read more here.
Upcoming events
– 25th Oct: SNS / SHoF Finance panel: Secured Debt - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 7th Nov: Skandia Award 2019: Behavioral Economics and Retirement Savings Outcome – 4th Dec: Women in Finance Talk
– 16th Dec: SNS / SHOF Finance panel: Should Sweden join the European Banking Union?
About us
The Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics is Sweden’s national research center for financial economics. It hosts internationally distinguished researchers, and enables financial research and development of the highest quality.
The center serves as an independent platform where academia and both the private and public financial sectors can exchange knowledge, foster new ideas and gain access to a global network of the most prominent researchers in finance.
The Swedish House of Finance is an equally private and government funded, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. It hosts approximately 70 researchers, consisting of resident and affiliated professors as well as PhD students.
Sweden’s national research center in financial economics
Drottninggatan 98, 111 60 Stockholm Phone: +46 8 736 91 00 info@houseoffinance.se
