🤩 New top publication! @jonaskolsrud.bsky.social's paper "Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications" (with Jakobsen, Kleven, Landais & Muñoz) is now forthcoming in the American Economic Review @aeajournals.bsky.social! 👏 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🎉 Good news! We have received funding from Handelsbanken's research foundations for organizing the Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) 2026 at @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social in Växjö! 🙏 Save the dates: June 15-17. More info soon! w/ @erikprawitz.bsky.social & @jakobenlund.bsky.social

Our senior lecturer @jonaskolsrud.bsky.social was recently a guest in "Arbetslinjen" (a series hosted by our previous student and Member of Parliament Oliver Rosengren). You can also hear a debate between the two in Sveriges Radio P1 Morgon here: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/deba...

Skriver med Peter Nilsson (IIES, SU) om den nya a-kassan på DN Debatt idag: lnkd.in/dZfjEWhe. Den nya arbetslöshetsförsäkringen med nedtrappning av ersättningen var 100:e dag ger dåligt skydd till långtidsarbetslösa medan ersättningen till korttidsarbetslösa riskerar att bli för generös.

🎉 Big news! 🎉 Our department's application for a new LNUC center, the Center for Equality of Opportunity and Big Data Policy Analysis, has been granted funding of 10 million SEK for the coming five years! 🥳