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Our researchers and teachers

About 100 people work at the Department of Economics as researchers, teachers and administrators. Our courses in economics and statistics are taught by highly qualified and dedicated teachers and researchers and the department is truly international, with staff from across the world.

Professors

Bolin, Kristian
Health Economics; Microeconomics; Economic Evaluation

Carlsson, Fredrik
Environmental Economics; Behavioral Economics; Microeconometrics; Experimental Economics

Durevall, Dick Senior Professor
Development Macroeconomics; Foreign Aid; Global Health

Farago, Adam
Financial Economics; Asset Pricing; Portfolio Choice; Behavioral Finance; Financial Econometrics

Hjalmarsson, Erik
Empirical Asset Pricing; Financial Econometrics

Hjalmarsson, Randi
Economics of Crime; Labor Economics; Law and Economics

Holmén, Martin
Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Experimental Finance

Johansson Stenman, Olof
Behavioral Economics; Environmental Economics; Public Economics; Welfare Economics

Lindahl, Mikael
Education; Family and Labor Economics

Martinsson, Peter
Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics; Environmental Economics; Development Economics; Health Economics

Mitrut, Andreea
Applied Microeconomics; Health Economics; Labor Economics

Nordblom, Katarina
Public Economics (especially taxation); Behavioral Economics

Olsson, Ola, Head of Department
Economic Growth; Historical Economics; Political Economy of Natural Resources; Development Economics

Stennek, Johan
Applied Microeconomics

Sterner, Thomas, Senior Professor
Resource Management in Developing Countries; Economics of Energy Use and Climate Change; Economics of Fisheries & Coastal Zone Management; Comparative Efficiency of Economic Policy Instruments in various Sectors

Söderbom, Måns
Development Economics
 

Guest professors

Alger, Ingela 
Elof Hansson Visiting Professor

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus 
Malmsten Visiting Professor

Jácome, Elisa
Malmsten Early Career Scholar

Liski, Matti 
Malmsten Visiting Professor

Møller Dahl, Christian
Malmsten Visiting Professor

Yanagizawa-Drott, David 
Malmsten Visiting Professor

Lecturers

Akay, Alpaslan
Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Economics of Happiness; Economics of Migration; Econometrics

Boman, Anders
Health Economics; Labor Economics; Geographic Mobility

Carlsson, Evert
Pensions; Incentive Systems; Corporate Governance

Congdon Fors, Heather
Development Economics; Institutional Economics; Child Labor; Political Economy

Dzemski, Andreas
Econometrics; Networks; Nonparametric Statistics

Eggert, Håkan
Resource Economics; Environmental Economics; Resource Management; Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Ek, Claes
Behavioral Economics; Environmental Economics; Public Economics; Applied Theory

Fang, Dawei
Corporate Finance; Micro Theory; Contests and Tournaments; Contract Theory

Herbertsson, Alexander
Applied Mathematical Finance; Applied Probability and Statistics; Quantitative Finance; Credit Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk

Kataria, Mitesh
Applied (Environmental and Welfare) Economics; Empirical Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics

Köhlin, Gunnar
Management of Natural Resources in Developing Countries; Environmental Valuation; Impact Evaluation; Energy Economics; Sustainable Development

Lampi, Elina
Environmental Economics; Stated Preferences; Behavioral Economics; Health Economics

Lindskog, Annika
Development Economics; Health Economics; Economic Demography; Education Economics; Behavioral Economics

Löfgren, Åsa
Environmental Economics; Economics of Climate Change; Behavioral Economics; Industrial Investment Behavior

Nadeau, Charles
International Finance; Financial Crises; Financial Market Regulation

Petri, Henrik
Corporate Finance; Decision theory

Sundén, Mattias
Extreme Value Theory for Stochastic Processes; Incentives for Portfolio Managers

Vecci, Joseph
Development Economics; Experimental Economics

Zeng, Ming
Empirical Asset Pricing; International Finance; Financial Econometrics

Zhang, Jian Hua
Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Asset Pricing; Emerging Market Finance

Assistant professors

Deschamps, Gabriela
Economics of the Family; Development Economics; Gender Economics

Frey, Jonas
Empirical Asset Pricing: Behavioral Economics; Experimental Finance

Janas, Moritz
Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Organizational Economics

Jiao, Xiyu 
Econometric Theory; Empirical Processes; Outlier Robustness; Nonlinear Cointegration; Local Projections
 

Post docs

Bergvall, Sanna
Labor Economics; Education Economics; Gender Economics

Dunaiski-Kovacs, Roxanne
Health Economics; Development Economics

Folkestad, Mattias
Political Economy; Historical Economics; Education Economics

Hanemaaijer, Kyra
Economics of Crime; Education; Gender; Labor Economics

Nordfors, Nicklas
Development Economics; Environmental Economics

Poignant, Adrian
Development Economics; Labor Economics

Pihl, Ariel 
Labor Economics; Policy Evaluation; Applied Microeconomics

Westergren, Kerstin
Applied Macroeconomics; Monetary Economics

Wikström, Jens
Health Economics; Public Economics

Affiliated Researchers and Professors Emeriti

Bigsten, Arne 
Professor Emeritus

Bilén, David
Affiliated Researcher

Chen, Li
Affiliated Researcher

Dufwenberg, Martin
Honorary Doctor

Ewald, Jens
Affiliated Researcher

Enlund, Jakob
Affiliated Researcher

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie
Affiliated Researcher

Karlsson, Jimmy
Affiliated Researcher

Karlsson, Martin
Affiliated Professor

Kirchler, Michael
Affiliated Professor

Kocher, Martin
Affiliated Professor

Maican, Florin
Affiliated Researcher

Norrgren, Lisa
Affiliated Researcher

Sandelin, Bo 
Professor Emeritus

Yokoo, Hide-Fumi
Affiliated Researcher