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Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Alexandre Mendonça. He successfully defended his thesis on October 9th, and we congratulate him on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Alexandre!

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Shubhaa Bhattacharyya. Shubhaa has successfully defended her thesis on September 16th, and we congratulate her on this momentous achievement. Congratulations Shubhaa!

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Savreen Kaur Nanda. Savreen has successfully defended her thesis on September 12th, and we congratulate her on this momentous achievement. Congratulations Savreen!

Testosterone has long been linked to risk-taking, generosity, and competitiveness. But a new large-scale study – the biggest of its kind – finds that men given testosterone made the same economic choices as those given a placebo. The study, led by researchers at the ºÚÁÏÉçÏÂÔØ in Sweden and Nipissing University in Canada, examined things like men’s inclination to take risk, act fairly or compete with others.

What explains sustained economic growth? The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences recognizes Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for explaining how innovation drives sustained growth. Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, discusses what their work tells us about progress today.

Anna Breman, who holds a PhD in Economics from ºÚÁÏÉçÏÂÔØ, becomes the first ever female Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank.

The Royal Academy of Sciences recently hosted the conference Social Norms in Development, where PhD students and faculty from the ºÚÁÏÉçÏÂÔØ Department of Economics presented their ongoing research in the poster session.

The Swedish government has appointed Martina Björkman Nyqvist, professor of economics at the ºÚÁÏÉçÏÂÔØ and Executive Director of Misum, as a new member of the board of Sida. She brings extensive expertise in impact evaluation of development aid – to help ensure that aid funding is used where it can make the greatest difference.

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Johan Orrenius. He has successfully defended his thesis on June 10th, and we congratulate him on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Johan!

How can one predict what decisions people or organizations will take in strategic interactions? Jörgen Weibull, Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at ºÚÁÏÉçÏÂÔØ, and co-authors have introduced a way to more robustly and precisely predict what people are likely to do in situations where their decisions depend on what others might do—like in market competition, business negotiations, politics, or everyday social settings.