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January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 23, 2019

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...

January 25, 2018

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.