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Conferences and Seminars

Labor and Finance Group Conference (2020)
IFN hosted the Labor and Finance Group conference on August 17th and 18th. Due to the pandemic, the conference was all digital. The Labor and Finance Group is an initiative to bring together academics…

The FAME Workshop (2020)
During the year the Firms, Labor Markets and Entrepreneurship (FAME) group at IFN has arranged two internal workshops. The purpose of these workshops are to bring together IFN researchers and affiliat…

How Does Digitization Affect the Business Sector and the Labor Market? (2020)
Sweden needs more active labor market policies directed towards education, young workers, and growing firms to secure a vibrant for the business sector and the labor market. This is a key conclusion f…

Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics Conference (2018)
In August 17-18 IFN hosted the inaugural conference of the Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics (NICE). NICE will organize a series of conferences to bring together leading scholars located in th…

Women in Investment Management visited IFN (2017)
KvinnoKapital, a network of women working with asset management, visited IFN and listened to presentations by two IFN researchers. Björn Hinnerich talked about the study "Gender Quotas in the Board Ro…

Globalization and New Technology: Effects on Firms and Workers (2017)
June 15 - 16, 2017, IFN organized an international two-day academic conference: “Globalization and New Technology: Effects on Firms and Workers”. The conference brought together researchers studying h…

What the research can teach us about automation? (2016)
On the 28th of December 2016, IFN arranged an open seminar on what research can teach us about automation. Melanie Arntz, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, and assistant profess…

What if... the stock market disappears? (2016)
On the 23rd of November, the Knut Wicksell Center for Financial Studies, which IFN is a part of, hosted an open seminar on venture capital, IPOs, and the future of the public firm. The Keynote speaker…

The Economics of Corporate Ownership (2015)
Questions on the social welfare implications of different forms of firm ownership are often headline news these days. These questions are raised by recent global trends where fewer firms are listed on…

Politics vs. the Economy? When Policy Uncertainty Curbs Economic Growth (2015)
Does policy uncertainty curb economic growth? “Yes”, said Professor Steven Davis, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, at a seminar organized by IFN. A Swedish example of uncertainty create…

Optimal Transparency – a Dream or Reality? (2014)
Transparency and the difference between accurate and more information in corporate communications was the subject of a half-day conference organized by the FAR, IFN, Nasdaq and Transparency Internatio…

GDP is not Enough – Or How to Measure Life (2015)
GDP is problematic as a measure of growth, but this does not mean that GDP is useless, explained Professor Diane Coyle, University of Manchester, in a seminar organized by IFN on May 7. Coyle said tha…

Who Should Control the Swedish Firms? (2014)
In the report “Vem ska styra de svenska företagen?” (English: “Who should govern Swedish Firms?”) presented on May 8, Associate Professor Ulf Jakobsson, previous director of IFN, and Dr. Daniel Wiberg…

The Decline and Fall of the Stock Market (2013)
Alexander Ljungqvist, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business and affiliated to IFN, opened a breakfast seminar entitled The Decline and Fall of the…

Job Dynamics in Swedish Industry 1990–2009 (2013)
On June 4, IFN arranged a seminar on the ESO report “Job Dynamics in Swedish industry 1990-2009” (Expert Group on Public Economics). Economists Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson, all…

Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance (2013)
In the wake of the financial crisis, increased attention in economics research has been focused on how financial markets affect the global real economy. While researchers have made great progress, man…

Capital taxation, Corporate Ownership and Globalization (2012)
“Capital taxation, corporate ownership and globalization” was the theme of a symposium arranged on November 19, 2012. Representatives from Handelsbanken’s research foundations, some of IFNs long-term…

Globalization, Organization and the Ownership of Firms (2012)
Firms are continually striving to improve efficiency in response to the forces of globalization. Recent research has shown that firms' organization, vertical specialization, management practices and o…