斯德哥尔摩经济学院

Associate Professor Kristina Tamm Hallström has published a study on old stores. The book was presented to an enthusiastic audience at SCORE (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research), a center initiated jointly by SSE and Stockholm University, to which Tamm Hallström is also affiliated. It was written together with three colleagues from SCORE and KTH.

Each week, people in Sweden’s capital sit down for fika nearly four times on average. It is a small ritual, but one that the research team at the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare, and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics says carries real economic weight. According to Stockholm’s new Wellbeing Index Report, strengthening social connection through measures like shared fika could be worth more than 600 million kronor per quarter if it lifted part of the region’s sense of togetherness by just one step.

AbstractThis doctoral dissertation comprises three self-contained chapters on macroeconomics.  Chapter 1 examines the welfare effects of eliminating interest rate distortions between the public and private sectors. Using a two-sector heterogeneoushousehold model, it finds that eliminating financial friction benefits all households, while removing implicit guarantees on state-owned enterprise debt improves welfare for the poor but harms the r

AbstractThis doctoral dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters.   "The Skill Premium Puzzle in Portugal" examines how the skill premium in Portugal has evolved over the past three decades, shedding light on a key driver of wage inequality. Using a rich longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset from Portugal, it documents a striking decline in the skill premium in this country, a trend that stands in stark con