Gustav Kjellsson is part of UGOT-ReWork, studying how healthcare organisation and the doctor’s role in the sickness certification process influence return-to-work pathways. 🔗 Full interview: shorturl.at/ylrq8

🔎Today’s General Economics Seminar focuses on Pigouvian income taxation. With Professor Lassi Ahlvik (University of Helsinki) and PhD student Mikael Mäakimattila (Aalto University). 👉More about our open seminars: shorturl.at/5cEiy

📢 We’re on LinkedIn! Follow us for insights on sustainability, global development, behavioral, environmental, health & financial economics, events and research updates. To our page👉 [https://shorturl.at/s78NK]

How are health and economics connected? Researchers met at the first CHG Workshop on Economics, Inequality & Health — fostering collaboration across health and economics. 👉 Read more: shorturl.at/O9YZw

Big congrats to Joseph Vecci! He receives over SEK 8M from Formas for research on low-emission agriculture in Kerala. 👉 Read more: shorturl.at/OQkwO

The research project ATLASS receives VR infrastructure funding through SwedPop! 🎉 Using machine learning, ATLASS will digitize Swedish school archives to enable new research on education and inequality. 👉Read more: shorturl.at/EvrTj

On September 9th, @hfors.bsky.social , Ann-Sofie Isaksson, and @econannika.bsky.social organized a one-day symposium on "Social Norms and Development" at the @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social . The symposium, funded by Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse, featured leading economists @nathannunn.bsky.social ...

Two great department seminars today with prominent guests @nathannunn.bsky.social - presenting research on zero-sum thinking and effort-suppressing beliefs - and @tim-cason.bsky.social on innovation and free-riding.

Welcome to Dr. Moritz Janas from NYU AbuDhabi who starts a position as Assistant Professor at our department this fall! Please find info about his research here: moritzjanas.com

We warmly congratulate Patrik Reichert @hangingprawns.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis "Relative Comparisons in Organizations and Society"! hdl.handle.net/2077/87666

I was interviewed a short time ago in Javier’s excellent EPH Podcast about my book Paleoeconomics. I hope you enjoy listening to it. www.linkedin.com/posts/javier...

Congratulations to @rhelensdotter.bsky.social !

Several members of faculty in the development group @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social have taken part in this nice collaboration as supervisors. We thank our Ethiopian friends for their visit and hope for fruitful research interaction in the future.

Our warmest congratulations to Jens Ewald @jensewald.bsky.social who successfully defended his timely PhD thesis "Opposition to Carbon Pricing: Beliefs, Revenues and Protesters" today! Thanks also to Prof Timo Goeschl from Heidelberg U for discussing the thesis.

Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School) gave a keynote lecture at the CFF conference on Asset Pricing and Machine Learning. The conference is organized by @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social and funded by Andra AP-fonden and Handelsbanken.

Jianqing Fan (Princeton University) presenting the keynote on “When Can Weak Latent Factors Be Statistically Inferred?” at the department workshop in econometrics and statistics. Workshop program: adzemski.github.io/assets/pdf/p...

Our frequent guest and affiliated colleague Martin Berg Karlsson @drdemant.bsky.social has co-authored a paper on German health insurance that is forthcoming in @jpolecon.bsky.social. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1086/734781

In case you missed Claudia Goldin's inspiring talk yesterday or wish to see it again, please find a report and a link to the recorded event below. www.gu.se/nyheter/semi...

In case you missed Claudia Goldin's inspiring talk yesterday or wish to see it again, please find a report and a link to the recorded event below. www.gu.se/nyheter/semi...

We were very happy to host Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin today during seminars and an important keynote lecture. Thanks to all 700 participants irl and online for attending! www.gu.se/en/event/cla...

On May 13, we are pleased to welcome Professor Joseph Altonji from Yale University, who will present "Marriage Dynamics, Earnings Dynamics, and Lifetime Family Income."

Kunskapslunch online 10 april: Klimat, vetenskap och politik – Hur politisk tillhörighet påverkar synen på klimatforskning. Elina Lampi presenterar resultatet av en enkätstudie om hur individers syn på klimatforskning påverkas av politiska faktorer. Anmäl dig här: www.gu.se/evenemang/kl...

On April 8, we welcome Antoine Dechezleprêtre from LSE/OECD to our General Economics Seminar! We are pleased to have him with us and look forward to an insightful seminar and stimulating discussions. #EconSky

Congratulations to our former master student, David Yanagizawa-Drott, now Professor of Economics at University of Zurich, who has received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award by the @eeanews.bsky.social jointly with Julia Cagé, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris. eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-...

Exciting news! Tim Bayer will be joining the Economics Department at @unipotsdam.bsky.social as a postdoc starting April 1. We wish him all the best in this next step! #Postdoc #Economics #econsky #Potsdam

Congratulations to @jimmykarlsson.bsky.social who has secured a postdoc position at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (Institutet för Näringslivsforskning)! Wishing you all the best in your new role! 🎉 #Postdoc #Economics #econsky

Olof Johansson-Stenman, vice ordförande i Klimatpolitiska rådet och professor i nationalekonomi, kommenterar i "Efter fem" årets rapport som visar att regeringens nuvarande politik inte är tillräcklig för att nå klimatmålen (ca 17:50 i klippet). www.tv4play.se/video/9d141a...

Congratulations to @voradalim.bsky.social! She joins the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (TSE), National Tsing Hua University, as a Postdoc in October and starts as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in February. Wishing her all the best! #AcademicSky #econsky #Economics

Congratulations to Jens Ewald on accepting a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Technology Management and Economics (Division of Environmental Systems Analysis) at Chalmers University of Technology! @jensewald.bsky.social #AcademicSky #econsky #Economics #AcademicJobs

In the fall, the University of Gothenburg will launch a new bachelor's program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. "A classic combination of subjects", says Olof Johansson-Stenman. www.gu.se/en/study-got... #econsky #economics #Philosophy #Politics

Today, we had the honor of welcoming Petter Lundborg from Lund University to our General Economics Seminar! www.gu.se/en/school-bu...

We are thrilled to welcome Kyra Hanemaaijer as a postdoc to our department! www.gu.se/en/news/meet... @kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social

Today we welcome @moritzdrupp.bsky.social as a speaker at our General Economics Seminar! Moritz is also a Malmsten Early Career Scholar and we are thrilled to have him visiting this week and working with us at the department. Read more here: www.gu.se/en/news/mori... #econsky

Institutioner: Lätta att rasera, svåra att återuppbygga USA:s utveckling visar hur snabbt institutioner kan urholkas. Frågan är inte bara om de kan återställas – utan hur länge skadorna består, skriver Heather Congdon Fors i en ledare i Ekonomisk Debatt. @hfors.bsky.social #econsky #demokrati

Inför det kommande tyska valet hoppas Sverige på ett resultat som leder till en regering som kan föra EU:s talan effektivt gentemot USA. Det menar professor Ola Olsson i en intervju med @efntv.bsky.social @oolsson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8gi...

USA:s paus av biståndsmyndigheten USAID påverkar många mottagarländer. "Ett oseriöst beslut utan grundlig forskning. Att stänga ner och skicka hem personalen medan biståndet står stilla är beklagligt", säger Arne Bigsten, seniorprofessor. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/stor...

Erik Hjalmarsson, Professor of Finance, has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. "It is a great honor to serve on the editorial board of one of the finest journals in finance." Read more here: www.gu.se/en/news/erik... #econsky #academicsky

I ett nytt avsnitt av Vetenskapsradion diskuterar @oolsson.bsky.social hur stenåldersplatsen Göbekli Tepe kan ha uppstått efter en köldknäpp som tvingade människor att samlas på bördiga platser, vilket skapade konkurrens och hierarkier. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/gobe...

USA:s tillträdande president Donald Trump vill köpa Grönland, men vad är det egentligen han vill åt? Håkan Eggert, docent i miljöekonomi, kommenterar detta i en artikel i DN. – Det stora värdet ligger i att ha kontroll över en hel ö och dess ekonomiska zon. Läs mer här: www.dn.se/ekonomi/vard...

We’re thrilled – and truly entertained – to have #Nobel laureate @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social at the University of #Gothenburg here today! The faculty attended a seminar, followed by an open presentation on Simon's latest research, with a Q&A and engaging #AI discussions. #econsky #economics

Nobel Prize winner Simon Johnson is visiting! On December 14th, one of this year’s recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences will give a lecture at the University of Gothenburg. We’re so excited for the event and @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social's visit! www.gu.se/en/news/nobe...

This week we're very happy to have Mikael Lindahl from @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow, Mikael will give a seminar on "Dynastic Human Capital, Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants". Welcome to Växjö, Mikael!

Randi Hjalmarsson i Ekonomiekot om sin SNS-rapport som lyfter vikten av att förstå orsakerna bakom återfall för att skapa evidensbaserad kriminalpolitik. sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/brot... @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social

Over four out of ten convicted individuals reoffend within a few years. Understanding the causes of reoffending is key to reducing recidivism and shaping evidence-based criminal justice policy, argues economist @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social in a new SNS report: www.sns.se/en/articles/...

Job market update: Many thanks to the nearly 400 candidates who applied to the applied micro (labor/development) position in Gothenburg! The recruiting committee has reviewed the applications and made interview invitations. We look forward to meeting you. #econsky #econjobmarket

Professor Ola Olsson medverkade igår i Nobelstudion i SVT för att prata om och förklara årets mottagare av ekonomipriset och deras forskning. 🌟 Missade du det? Se programmet här: www.svtplay.se/video/ewqAPW... @nobelprize.bsky.social @oolsson.bsky.social

På måndag släpps Randi Hjalmarssons SNS-rapport "Determinants of Recidivism: How Criminal Justice Interactions and the Post-Release Environment Affect Repeat Offending". I samband hålls ett seminarium om hur återfall i brott kan minskas: www.sns.se/artiklar/hur... @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social

Professor Ola Olsson diskuterar årets ekonomipris i Handelshögskolans podd tillsammans med Klas Rönnbäck, professor i ekonomisk historia. Hur påverkar samhällsinstitutioner globalt välstånd? Lyssna på samtalet här: www.gu.se/handelshogsk... @oolsson.bsky.social #econsky

Tomorrow, Nov 26, we welcome Alexander Wright Cappelen from NHH - Norwegian School of Economics to our General Economics Seminar! Alexander will present: "A Competitive World" (joint work with T. Buser, U. Gneezy & B. Tungodden). #econsky #economics #research

We're very excited to introduce three candidates on the #econjobmarket this year! Meet Vorada Limjaroenrat, Jimmy Karlsson, and Jens Ewald, and read their job market papers here: gu.se/en/school-bu... #econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp @jensewald.bsky.social @jimmykarlsson.bsky.social