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2018 - Innovation and institutional change in Swedish commodity trade 1920-2010 - Fredrik Sandgren - Uppsala University, Sweden
The project will analyze the transformation of the Swedish commodity trade during the 20th century. The ultimate aim is to write a synthesis of the Swedish...
2018 - Shadow banking in Sweden part 2 - experiences from the early 20th century - Axel Hagberg - Stockholm School of Economics, EMFF
The project aims to highlight the Swedish issuing company era and see it in a new light. The intense period of...
2018 - Early banking in Sweden 1850-1920, stage 2 - 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...
2018 - Financial Economics: "Markets, Firms and Information Flows" - Marieke Bos - Stockholm School of Economics, SHoF
The Swedish House of Finance organizes an annual conference on a theme in financial economics. This year's theme is "information flows between financial...
2018 - Olle Söderberg - a biography - Alexander Husebye - Föreningen Centrum för Näringslivshistoria
This project aims to depict the Söderberg family's journey from entrepreneurship to philanthropy in the late 19th century through two biographies...
2018 - "It's a retail revolution": The international challenges of digitalization - Emilia Rovira Nordman - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR
Although Sweden has long provided the breeding ground for global success stories like H&M and IKEA, we see that today's Swedish retailers are...
2018 - The benefit of being tempted? Self-control, self-confidence and economic choices - Claes Ek - Gothenburg School of Economics
People sometimes choose to voluntarily limit their scope of action in order to better resist immediate temptations that are contrary to their...
2018 - Companies and employees in a changing labor market - Joacim Tåg - Näringslivsforskning Institute
In recent decades, the Swedish labor market has undergone extensive structural changes as a result of the technological developments that have driven...
2018 - Fashion, luxury, credit and trust - Klas Nyberg - Stockholm University
The project "Fashion, Luxury, Credit and Trust. From early modern to modern bankruptcies" was granted funding in 2017 to analyze the importance of the bankruptcy...
2018 - Management of complex business relationships - Henrik Agndal - Gothenburg School of Economics
One way to understand complex business relationships is to consider them as consisting of more or less interconnected arenas where companies...
2018 - Graduate School of Accounting - FIRE - Torkel Strömsten - Stockholm School of Economics, SiR
The Graduate School of Accounting (FIRE) was initiated in 2015 as a response to the shortage of accounting researchers and teachers...
2017 - Expanded guest researcher and seminar activities - Jonas Häckner - Stockholm University
In order to make better use of our international contacts, we hereby apply for a grant for our guest researcher and seminar activities in 2018.