Research in the spotlight
Explore the latest research from the Swedish House of Finance.
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How to design an effective carbon tax
2021-01-22
Watch the interview with Per Strömberg and Gustav Martinsson about their findings from a recent research project on the Swedish carbon dioxide tax. Their project evaluates the effectiveness of the...
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The dynamics of mutual funds, analyst expectations, and alphas
2021-01-12
In a new paper researchers show that actual expectations of future fund performance can help to explain the active fund industry’s size and its poor performance.
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Impulsive Consumption and Financial Well-Being: Evidence from an Increase in the Availability of Alcohol
2020-11-16
The increased availability of alcohol may harm individuals who have present-focused preferences and consume more than initially planned. Using a nationwide experiment in Sweden, Marieke Bos from the...
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How Do We Include Environmental, Social and Governance Issues in Financial Markets and into the Capital Market Conversation?
2020-10-20
Associate Professor Michael Halling joined 91Ô´´ in the summer of 2012 after spending five years at the University of Utah. His research ranges from empirical asset pricing to corporate finance and has...
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Policy Tolls, Green Bonds and Building Close Ties Between Research and Academia
2020-10-20
Laszlo Sajtos is a PhD graduate from the 91Ô´´. His recent research focuses on corporate and investors’ response to various environmental regulations.
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Welcome Tobias Sichert - New Assistant Professor
2020-10-12
The Swedish House of Finance and the Department of Finance at the 91Ô´´ recently welcomed new Assistant Professor Tobias Sichert - a PhD graduate from Goethe University and...
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Uncertainty, Access to Debt, and Firm Precautionary Behaviour
2020-10-08
The contemporary world is filled with uncertainty surrounding issues that include, but are not limited to, the coronavirus pandemic and trade wars between USA and China. Uncertainty is considered to...
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The Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Democracy
2020-10-05
In their forthcoming paper "The Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Democracy: Gadflies and Low-Cost Activism" Professor Mariassunta Giannetti together with co-autor Nickolay Gantchev find that, in...
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Catching a Glimpse: Get to Know New Assistant Professor Diogo Mendes
2020-09-23
In the fall of 2020, the Swedish House of Finance and the Department of Finance at the 91Ô´´ welcomed three new Assistant Professors’. Diogo Mendes - a PhD graduate from Nova...
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Hysteresis in Price Efficiency and the Economics of Slow-moving Capital
2020-09-15
Will arbitrage capital flow into markets experiencing shocks, mitigating adverse effects on price efficiency? Not necessarily. In a dynamic model with privately informed capital constrained...
