Papers and presentations
Participants have agreed to submit the agreed-upon papers no later than 15 November, 2023, to Niclas Berggren at niclas.berggren@ifn.se. The papers will then be made available to all participants but not to anyone else.
Each presentation may take at most 20 minutes, with a general discussion of 10 minutes to follow. There are no pre-designated discussants; everyone will be free to comment on each paper. Please bring your presentations on a USB stick.
Participants are free to publish their research anywhere they wish but are required to acknowledge the support of the John Templeton Foundation (project 62065) through this symposium, as per the signed contracts.
Traveling to and from Stockholm
The main airport is Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), to which many airlines fly, not least Scandinavian Airlines. Book an economy-class ticket with arrival on Thursday 30 November, such that you will make it to the welcome reception at 18:30. In order to make it, you should probably not land at the airport later than 16:30. As for the return flight, the conference will end with breakfast on Sunday 3 December, so you are free to leave any time on that day. The smaller airport, available from a few places, is Bromma (BMA).
Transportation to and from the airport
From and to Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN) we recommend that you take the high-speed airport train Arlanda Express. You can buy a return ticket on their website beforehand. The ride takes about 20 minutes.
When you arrive in Stockholm, you can take a taxi to the Victory Hotel. Please only use one of three companies located closest to the platform of the airport train: Taxi Stockholm, SverigeTaxi or TaxiKurir; other taxis are located in an outside lane and will charge more. All taxi rides can be paid for by card. Alternatively, you can walk to the hotel or take the metro ("tunnelbanan") one stop on the red line going south, from stop T-Centralen to stop Gamla Stan. You can pay for the metro with your contactless card as you pass through the gates (as receipt, you can send us an excerpt from your credit-card statement).
A cheaper alternative is to take the airport bus to central Stockholm (to the City Terminal) and continue to the hotel in a similar fashion as those taking the airport train. The ride takes approx. 40 minutes.
At the hotel
Victory Hotel, Lilla Nygatan 5, Stockholm. How to find the hotel.
Check in and check out: You have access to your room from 15:00 on Thursday 30 November until 12:00 on Sunday 3 December. You are welcome to leave your luggage in the reception if needed.
The conference is held in the conference section of the Victory Hotel, across the street.
Travel expenses and accommodation
We will reimburse travel expenses (economy class) against original receipts after the conference and pay for accommodation and meals during the conference. We do not reimburse meal expenses during travel to and from the conference. For the reimbursement of travel expenses, please send your original receipts and your personal and bank details (name, address, SWIFT/BIC code and IBAN), after returning from the conference, to:
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Attn. Elisabeth Gustafsson
P.O. Box 55665
SE-102 15 Stockholm
Sweden
If you only have digital receipts for your travel expenses, you can, alternatively, e-mail those digital receipts together with your personal and bank details to elisabeth.gustafsson@ifn.se. Note that scanned "physical" receipts (e.g., from a taxi or a train) do not count as digital receipts – those must be posted to the postal address above.
Please make sure that the reimbursement claim reaches us by 23 December at the very latest.
Dietary restrictions
Please inform us about dietary restrictions or any other special requests.
Style of dress
The style of dress throughout the conference is casual. Smart casual is an option for the dinners, but there is no strict requirement.