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The Global Wealth Report, in its fourteenth edition, explores how wealth is created, how it varies across regions globally, and how it is distributed among the world’s population. This year’s edition of the Global Wealth Report provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information available on global household wealth, and Daniel Waldenström, researcher at IFN, is one of its authors.

IFN:s new research program "Taxes and Society" has organized an international conference. Researchers from other Nordic countries and the US attended the conference in Vaxholm with the purpose to present new research on taxes and distributional issues.

The Global Award is the world's leading award in entrepreneurship research. The prize was this year awarded to Per Davidsson, professor at the Jönköping International Business School and at the Australian Center for Entrepreneurship Research, QUT Business School.

A new empirical study conducted by Fredrik Heyman and Martin Olsson, both researchers at IFN, examines whether advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income mobility. 

Christian Bjørnskov, affiliated researcher at IFN, has been awarded "The Duncan Black Prize" for his article "Emergencyncies: on the misuse of government powers".

On 16 February, a kick-off was organized in connection with the launch of IFN's new tax research program "Taxes and Society". The aim was to present the background and design of the new program to specially invited stakeholders and to discuss current and relevant issues in the field. The launch concluded with a panel discussion between Daniel Waldenström, Program Director for "Taxes and Society", Jesper Ahlgren (M), State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Klas Tikkanen, Partner at Nordic Capital.

Joacim Tåg, Associate Professor at IFN, received a prize for his article "What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?", written jointly with Professor Matti Keloharju and Professor Samuli Knüpfer (both affiliated with IFN).

In this fall's issue of The Independent Review, Marta L. Bradley-Dorsey, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, has written a review of the book Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend, written by Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström. Both are researchers at IFN.

Niklas Wykman, Ph.D. student at Örebro University and affiliated with IFN, has been appointed Minister for Financial Markets in the new government.

At the end of September 2022, 16 scholars from different disciplines and countries came together in the Old Town of Stockholm to present and discuss new research on trust and institutions. They were all united in a quest to explore how social science can help us better understand what is needed for modern societies to function well, both economically and socially.

Currently, IFN is hosting a scientific conference in Vaxholm in the archipelago of Stockholm to honor Magnus Henrekson’s considerable academic achievements. Several world-leading researchers are participating in the conference.

During two days in June, IFN hosted the 2022 IFN Stockholm Conference in Vaxholm, in the archipelago of Stockholm.  The theme for this year's conference was the Economics of Cultures and Institutions.

Why has Sweden managed well in economic crises during the last two decades?

On May 25th Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy received the world's foremost prize on Entrepreneurship Research, the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, at a prize ceremony and lecture in Stockholm. 

Professor Saras Sarasvathy visited IFN on monday.

A return to state industrial policy risks distorting healthy competition and hampering innovation. This is shown by several economists in the new book Questioning the Entrepreneurial State, published by Springer. Niklas Elert and Magnus Henrekson, both IFN, are two of the authors.

The 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to Saras D. Sarasvathy, Professor Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Sarasvathy is awarded for her pathbreaking research on entrepreneurial decision-making and the entrepreneurial process. The Global Award is the foremost international award in entrepreneurship research with a prize sum of € 100,000.

Fredik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, is one of ten European economists who have signed a joint call for further sanctions against Russia.

Sweden has one of the highest trust levels in the world. At a recent policy seminar, research on how the pandemic has affected trust levels in Sweden was presented.

IFN researcher Daniel Waldenström is interviewed in French Polytechnique Insights on the much-debated topic of economic inequality.