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January 25, 2017

2016 - Biography of Per Olof (Pelle) Söderberg - Alexander Husebye - Föreningen Centrum för Näringslivshistoria

The Center for Business History is undertaking a book project that tells the story of Per Olof (Pelle) Söderberg’s life. Pelle Söderberg is one of several successful...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Early banking in Sweden during the industrialization process 1850-1920 - Magnus Andersson - Gothenburg School of Economics

The aim of the study is to show the role of the emerging banks in Sweden and their participants in the transition to the...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Consumer behavior - classical and contemporary perspectives - Karin M. Ekström - University of Borås

Translation of the textbook "Consumer Behavior - Classical and Contemporary Perspectives" from Swedish to English. The book is authored by Karin M. Ekström,...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Real estate prices in Stockholm city center from the 17th century to today - Rodney Edvinsson - Stockholm University

The rise in house prices in Stockholm over the past 20 years is unprecedented in a historical perspective. The relationship between real estate prices and various...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Transparency in capital equipment sales - Christoph Schneider - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

The aim of the project is to study Open Book Accounting (OBA) in capital equipment sales. OBA was established as a new field...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Internationalization behavior in medium-sized retail companies - Emilia Rovira Nordman - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

Medium-sized enterprises in Sweden can be considered an important engine of economic growth. However, these companies are still few in number...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Rock carvings and economic cycles - Johan Ling - University of Gothenburg

The starting point of the proposed project is that the rock carvings are a unique source material that can be linked to economic cycles in the metal trade and...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Trust, tolerance and growth - new methods for finding causal links - Niclas Berggren - Swedish Institute for Business Research

It is not self-evident that an economy functions well and contributes to increased prosperity. In recent years, economists have realized...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Sweden's man in London - Björn Prytz's private archive - Martin Fritz

The private archive of Björn Prytz, Swedish envoy in London during the Second World War, which was made available to me, has now been...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Historical stock price and accounting database - Kristian Rydqvist - Stockholm School of Economics

Swedish stock price and accounting data are available in the Findatabase from 1979 onwards. The purpose of this project is to update the Findatabase backwards...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Poverty care and the ballot paper: on the economic stratification of voting rights after 1921 - Fia Sundevall - Stockholm University

The project aims to explore the limitations of political citizenship of people on welfare after the democratic breakthrough. When so-called universal suffrage was introduced...

January 21, 2016

2015 - Chessboard game - Per-Axel Wiktorsson - Stockholm University

The application relates to the costs of printing the text Chessboard Game. The value of the publication - beyond the purely linguistic - lies in the fact that we...