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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.

On October 3, the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) and the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) co-hosted a seminar on Europe's green industrial transformation.

On September 22, the ºÚÁÏÉçÏÂÔØ had the pleasure of welcoming Sweden's Minister for Financial Markets, Niklas Wykman, for a lunch lecture hosted by the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP).

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.

A new study shows that Ukraine’s postwar recovery isn't just about repairing roads and homes, but about creating a stronger economy, democratic institutions, and a future-proof nation. In this study, Torbjörn Becker, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro offer a sweeping review of hundreds of policy proposals in the Annual Review of Economics, outlining what it will take to rebuild Ukraine after war.