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What explains sustained economic growth? The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences recognizes Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for explaining how innovation drives sustained growth. Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, discusses what their work tells us about progress today.

Anna Breman, who holds a PhD in Economics from SSE, becomes the first ever female Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank.

On October 3, the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) and the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) co-hosted a seminar on Europe's green industrial transformation.

On September 22, the º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØhad the pleasure of welcoming Sweden's Minister for Financial Markets, Niklas Wykman, for a lunch lecture hosted by the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP).

The Royal Academy of Sciences recently hosted the conference Social Norms in Development, where PhD students and faculty from the SSE Department of Economics presented their ongoing research in the poster session.

A new study shows that Ukraine’s postwar recovery isn't just about repairing roads and homes, but about creating a stronger economy, democratic institutions, and a future-proof nation. In this study, Torbjörn Becker, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro offer a sweeping review of hundreds of policy proposals in the Annual Review of Economics, outlining what it will take to rebuild Ukraine after war.

Since 2003, the Entrepreneurship Forum has recognized emerging talent in academia through its annual Young Researcher Prize, celebrating impactful work in entrepreneurship and small business research. This year’s recipient is House of innovation researcher Mohamed Genedy, whose work sheds light on the often-overlooked downsides of entrepreneurship across different ownership structures. Today, he will receive the SEK 150,000 prize at the national research conference in Örebro. We spoke with him about what drives his work - and why it matters.

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Johan Orrenius. He has successfully defended his thesis on June 10th, and we congratulate him on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Johan!

Dr. German Bender, affiliated researcher at the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) and Harvard University, has had his article "Challenging the Hypothesis of Neoliberal Convergence in Industrial Relations: The Swedish Conundrum" published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Markets don’t just drive the economy – they shape our society. As long-held truths are challenged and new systems take form, we need a deeper understanding of what markets are, how they work, and what they should deliver. With support from the Handelsbanken Research Foundations, the º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØis now establishing a new professorship and a new interdisciplinary research center.