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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.

Fredrik Sjöholm, director of IFN, has been appointed chair of division IX of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). The division focuses on The economic sciences with a focus on economics and connections to business administration as well as how economics and engineering intersect.

Mårten Blix, IFN, presented his and Henrik Jordahl’s book Privatizing Welfare Services – Lessons from the Swedish Experiment at the IEO Seminar ”Sweden’s Successful Financing of A Strong Welfare System: A Model for Other Countries” on December 14th.

Magnus Henrekson, Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at IFN, has joined the IZA, Institute of Labor Economics, as a Research Fellow.

Daniel Waldenström, IFN, presents new research on wealth and inequality in a column in Vox EU. Currently, the column is the most-read piece on Vox EU.

Foreign companies' interest in establishing themselves in Sweden seems to have diminished since the financial crisis, and it is worrying, said Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, when he participated in the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum's launch of the report Swedish Perspectives on Industrial Policy, the Washington Consensus and Beyond.

Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, has been elected to be a member of the board of the European Institute of Japanese Studies.