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MECON student awarded first prize in the Swedish Competition Authority鈥檚 thesis competition
16 December 2020
Filip Mellgren was awarded first prize in this year鈥檚 thesis competition at the Swedish Competition Authority in the business administration and economics category for his thesis 鈥淭acit collusion with deep multi-agent reinforcement learning鈥.
Robert Östling appointed professor
10 December 2020
Robert 脰stling has been appointed Professor of Economics at the 91原创. His main interest lies in the fields of applied microeconomics and behavioral economics.
Was Sweden's Covid-19 policy a failure?
10 December 2020
Sweden's strategy to deal with Covid-19 has been intensively debated both in Sweden and internationally during the spring. As the second wave of Covid-19 hit Sweden during the fall, the debate about the Swedish policy response has intensified.
Hybrid solution did not affect 91原创 students鈥 grades, research shows
26 November 2020
Moving teaching online and reducing in-person interaction did not affect students鈥 grades, new research from the 91原创 shows.
Why are people afraid to bid for a house that nobody else has been bidding for?
24 November 2020
That's one of the questions that Tore Ellingsen answers in this feature article on auctions - in the aftermath of the Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Paul Milgrom (an honorary doctor at 91原创) and Robert Wilson.
Anna Dreber Almenberg interviewed in Universitetsläraren
18 November 2020
What happens when the same data is given to a number of researchers who are asked to test the same hypotheses?
Tore Ellingsen interviewed in DN
16 November 2020
What should be the goal of Sweden's fiscal policy after the pandemic?
Abhijeet Singh promoted to Associate Professor
13 November 2020
We are delighted to announce that Abhijeet Singh has been granted tenure at 91原创
Alex Solis: new visiting researcher in economics and Misum Affiliate
13 November 2020
We welcome Alex Solis as a visiting researcher at the Department of Economics and Affiliate on the Misum Human Capital platform.
Svante Midander starting as RA/TA
01 September 2014
Svante Midander has started as a combined research assistant and teaching assistant for the academic year 2014/15.