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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 - 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 25, 2018

2017 - The impact of the Internet on productivity, labor markets and globalization - Anders Åkerman - Stockholm University

One of the biggest issues of our time is how accelerating technological developments are affecting the way our economies work. The internet, the...

January 25, 2018

2017 - External accounting and corporate relations - Gunnar Wahlström - University of Gothenburg

This project is part two of the Foundation-funded project "External Accounting and Corporate Relations in Capital Markets". Three fundraising activities...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Research School in Accounting - FIRE - Torkel Strömsten - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

The accounting profession has long been under great pressure. Several key players such as FAR and the Swedish Association of...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Big Data and predictive analytics - Rickard Sandberg - Stockholm School of Economics

Today, most retailers have access to very large amounts of data - so-called 'Big Data'. This data can e.g. ....

January 25, 2018

2017 - Organizing design and designing organizations for change - Anna Rylander Eklund - University of Gothenburg, GRI

Design has come to be seen as a strategic skill in an increasing number of large companies, which are investing heavily in the recruitment of...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Fashion, luxury, credit and trust. From early modern to modern bankruptcies - Klas Nyberg - Stockholm University

The project aims to publish a scholarly anthology with an international publisher. The anthology analyzes the significance of the reform of the bankruptcy institute 1767-1830...

January 25, 2018

2017 - New financing options for central welfare services - John Lapidus - Gothenburg School of Economics

The Swedish welfare model is undergoing changes. This often refers to the extensive privatization of central welfare services that began in the early 1990s....

January 25, 2018

2017 - The spatial and conceptual domain of markets. A study of Freeports - Hans Kjellberg - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

This PhD project studies the contemporary phenomenon of Freeports - warehouses located in free trade areas where valuable items are stowed away indefinitely...

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.

January 25, 2018

2017 - Pelle Söderberg - a biography - Alexander Husebye - Center for Business History

The Center for Business History is undertaking a book project that recounts and examines the life of Per Olof (Pelle) Söderberg (1836–1881) within the context of industrial history....