31 December 2017
Research seminars
Responsible for the seminar series was Martin Olsson
31 December 2017
28 November 2017
Seminar in Brussels: EU has to open up to new ideas and new business
Brussels | Magnus Henrekson, IFN, presented the report Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Europe (Project Fires) at a seminar hosted by the Permanent Representatio…
15 November 2017
Why are some immigrant groups more successful than others?
Edward Lazear of Stanford University visited IFN on Wednesday and launched a public seminar. Lazear has studied immigration to the United States, as well as to Sweden, and found that the underlying me…
19 September 2017
Seminar: Educational perspective and pedagogy
In their new book, Kunskapssynen och pedagogiken (Educational Perspective and Pedagogy; Diagolos Förlag), Inger Enkvist, Magnus Henrekson, Martin Ingvar and Ingrid Wållgren explain that today's view o…
5 September 2017
The role of research in politics
On Tuesday, IFN, in cooperation with Studentlitteratur (Student Literature), held a seminar called "Is research the antidote to fake news?" Magnus Henrekson, IFN, led a conversation in which Ulf Krist…
31 August 2017
Women in investment management visited IFN
On Thursday, KvinnoKapital, a network of women working with asset management, visited IFN and listened to presentations by two IFN researchers. Björn Hinnerich talked about the study "Gender Quotas in…
16 June 2017
Globalization and New Technology: Effects on Firms and Workers
June 15-16 IFN is organizing an international two-day academic conference: “Globalization and New Technology: Effects on Firms and Workers”. The conference brings together researchers studying how new…
23 May 2017
Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe
On Tuesday the study Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Europe was presented in Stockholm. The study is part of Fires, a research program funded by the European Co…
16 May 2017
De Soto awarded for knowledge about property rights
Hernando de Soto, founder of the think-tank Institute of Liberty and Democracy (ILD), in Lima, Peru, has been awarded the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2017. "Five billion people are poor…
6 April 2017
Economic policy and the rise of populism
On Thursday the EEAG Report 2017 was presented at a seminar in Stockholm. What drives populism, asked Professor Clemens Fuest, CESifo, Munich, at the seminar titled “Economic policy and the rise of po…