2012-04-25
In March, Karin Edmark, Ph.D. and research fellow at IFN, together with Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University, and Heléne Lundqvist, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, had the article "Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution" accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy. This is one of the top-5 journals in Economics.
2012-04-19
High research productivity is crucial for IFN's success. With few exceptions, all IFN research is first published in the IFN Working Paper Series. Yet the true quality of a specific research paper cannot be determined until it has been suitably published (in a journal, collective volume, or as a research monograph). Eventually, an unpublished Working Paper is usually of little value.
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2012-03-08
On March 5, Matilda Orth successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation Entry, Competition and Productivity in Retail at the Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. The focus of the dissertation is on different aspects of competition in retail markets. Some of the issues are the characteristics for stores with high productivity and the relative importance of entrants, exits, and incumbents. Professor Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota, was the opponent for the dissertation.
2012-02-02
Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt is the recipient of the prestigious Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research in 2012. Kathleen Eisenhardt is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. She is awarded the prize for her distinguished and outstanding contributions to research on entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on “corporate entrepreneurship”. The amount of the prize is EUR 100,000.
2011-11-14
"The achievement gap is not new, but its impact on U.S. economic performance is growing. The reason for this is simply that the number of minority-group members as a share of the population is rising." Read the article written by Tino Sanandaji and Reihan Salam in the latest issue of National Review.
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2011-09-30
Frédéric Delmar, Professor in Entrepreneurship and researcher within the IFN research program "The Economics of Entrepreneurship", has been appointed Associate Editor of the academic top journal Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
2011-09-15
Professor Yves Zenou, Stockholm University and IFN, and Eleonora Patacchini, Universita da Roma, have been awarded the first annual Oliver E. Williamson prize for the best article accepted for publication in Journal of Law, Economics and Organization during 2009 and 2010. The article “Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism” will be published in JLEO, Vol 28 (2012).
2011-05-23
Maria Persson, part-time researcher at IFN, has been invited by the World Trade Organization to participate in an expert group meeting to discuss the WTO World Trade Report 2011 (next annual report). Maria Persson´s colleague Yves Bourdet will also take part.
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2011-05-24
In the last decade we have observed an increased interest from scholars on how innovations are financed, developed, and commercialized, and on the effects of ownership changes on the reorganization and growth of established firms. This will be the theme for the IFN Stockholm Conference 2011 on June 9–10. The conference is for invited researchers only.
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2011-05-06
At the annual conference of the European Public Choice Society in Rennes, Henrik Jordahl was elected new member of the organization’s Executive Board. The European Public Choice Society was founded in 1972 and aims at promoting scientific research on the economic and interdisciplinary analysis of non-market decision making processes and institutions.
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