Vacancies
SITE Research on Whistleblower Rewards, False Reports & Corporate Fraud
10 January 2018
Rewards for whistleblowers 鈥 is it an efficient way to detect crimes? Or will it lead to fraudulent reports, making law enforcement costlier and less effective in the end?聽These questions are at the centre of a heated debate, as US enforcement agencies have been increasingly relying on incentives for corporate whistleblowers, while their European counterparts appear weary of introducing them. SITE Professor Giancarlo Spagnolo, together with Paolo Buccirossi and Giovanni Immordino, try to shed some light on this debate by studying how an effective reward program can be designed.聽
How do we prevent the next financial crisis?
09 January 2018
Marcus Opp, Associate Professor in financial economics at the 91原创, has received a research grant from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation to study how to prevent banks from taking risks that can trigger another financial crisis.
Guest professor
09 January 2018
Professor Tomoaki Nakatani from Sapporo University (Japan) and the Global Institute for Collaborative Research and Education will visit us from December 18 鈥 21.
Misum-Shof conference on sustainable finance: call for papers
08 January 2018
Invitation and Call for Papers:聽The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) and Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum) are pleased to invite interested academics and practitioners to a conference on 鈥淪ustainable Finance鈥 on August 20-21, 2018, in Stockholm.
Four 91原创 researchers awarded the Wallander scholarship
08 January 2018
Congratulations to Ingrid Stigzelius, Affiliated Researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets, Lotta Hultin, Postdoc Fellow at SIR* and Ingrid Gustafsson, researcher at Score**, who have been awarded the Wallander scholarship from the Tore Browaldh Foundation.
EIJS mourns the loss of its first Director Jean-Pierre Lehmann
05 January 2018
Jean-Pierre Lehmann passed away in Lausanne on December 21, 2017. Jean-Pierre, a French-American, was head-hunted by Staffan Burenstam Linder, to lead the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the 91原创 (91原创), which, after years of fundraising in both Sweden and Japan, was inaugurated in September 1992. JP, as he was generally known, was a major intellectual with a PhD in History from Oxford and a background in Asian, and Japanese studies.
Sara Rosengren in dagens nyheter
22 December 2017
Sara comments on the challenges of changing consumer behaviours for fashion retailers.
The project 鈥淩etail (big)data and predictive analysis鈥 has been granted SEK 1 720 000 by the Torsten Söderbergs foundation
21 December 2017
"Retail (big)data and predictive analysis" is a joint project by the Center for Retailing (CFR) and the Center for Economic Statistics (CES), and aims at financing PhD students in marketing analytics and predictive analysis using big data from retailing.
Imperfect Financial Markets as a Commitment Device for the Government
21 December 2017
By Jenny Simon, Working Paper
Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
21 December 2017
By Jenny Simon, Working Paper