Economics and Statistics (E&S)
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The research environment in Economics and Statistics combines applied empirical research in economics with research in the development of statistical methods within survey methodology and econometrics.
The major themes of research and research groups are 1. Wellbeing, Health & Welfare Economics (WHAWE), 2. Economics of Entrepreneurship, Family business, Globalization and Institutions (EFGI), 3. Macroeconomics and financial econometrics (MAFE), 4. Statistics (Stat@oru).
The research environment in Economics and Statistics is the foundation for the PhD programs in Economics and in Statistics, and the MSc (2 years) programs Applied Statistics, Economics & Econometrics and Finance.
Researchers
- Fredrik Andersson
- Linda Andersson Järnberg
- Daniela Andrén
- Ann-Marie Flygare
- Pär Hansson
- Lars Hultkrantz
- Farrukh Javed
- Dan Johansson
- Henrik Jordahl
- Niklas Karlsson
- Sune Karlsson
- Patrik Karpaty
- Niclas Krüger
- Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
- Thomas Laitila
- Magnus Lodefalk
- Stepan Mazur
- Nicklas Pettersson
- Elisabet Rutström
- Elin Vimefall
- Pär Österholm
- Erik Engberg, PhD student
- Hans Westerberg, PhD student
- Niklas Wykman, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Analysis of demand equations using mixtures of Tobit models
- Bayesian analysis of dynamic factor models
- Child labor and education
- Computational efficiency of multiple kernel imputation
- Digital Area for Networking Teachers and Educators (DANTE)
- Economic Analysis of Measures for Supporting Employment and Enhancing Quality of Life for Mentally Disabled (SEQL)
- Economic effects of local culture and sport events
- Efficient Stochastic Modeling of Temporal Financial Data within non-Gaussian Random Fields
- Evaluation of a new system of assigning quarterfinals in ski sprints
- Firm growth and institutional barriers to growth
- Global value chains and the costs of structural change
- Growth barriers in small and medium sized enterprises
- Higher cumulants for multivariate aggregate claim models
- High-grow firms and knowledge spillovers
- Impact Evaluation of an Agricultural Sector Program
- Investigating the impact of multi-scale macroeconomic informations on market risks
- Is part-time sick-leave helping to return to work?
- Labour market effects of artificial intelligence: A study of knowledge-intensive business services
- Local Government Finance Data Analysis (LOGFIN)
- Local public sector investments
- Macro and financial econometrics after the financial crisis
- Migration, integration and firms? globalization ? how does migration and integration into the workforce contribute to firms? globalization?
- Model selection and model uncertainty in Econometrics
- Multi-unit common value auctions
- Municipality owned enterprises: Emergence and consequences
- Offshoring, inshoring and employment effects in Swedish firms
- Out-of-pocket payments in Swedish health care: how does it affect health care utilization?
- Priorities in health care
- Quantifying Measurement Errors in Partially Edited Data
- Servicification and internationalisation of manufacturing
- Skewness and kurtosis in portfolio analysis: modelling, estimation and test theory
- Sports Betting and Portfolio Selection Theory
- Statistical Analysis of the Optimal Portfolio Weights and their Risk Measures
- Statistical Disclosure Control
- Structural State Dependence and Welfare Participation in Sweden
- Support for foreign trade financing
- The Effects and Cost-Effectiveness of Supported Employment for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
- The evolution of the Swedish tax system, 1862 and onwards
- The importance of family business
- The need for new ways of measuring people's welfare and indicators that have a more direct bearing on people's life
- The network of the Online Users of The Swedish Employer Employee Data (OUTSEED)
- The social cost of greenhouse gases
- Traffic safety and vehicle insurance
- Which firms employs the unemployed?
- Willingness to pay for road safety of bicyclists and pedestrians - public or private
- Wishart Processes in Statistics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications
- Working after the mandatory retirement age. An economics' perspective.
Completed projects
- Aid, public spending and development goals
- Copula modelling and decathlon
- Effects of accident prevention
- Robust analysis of ordinal data
- Statistical estimation strategies using asymptotic arguments
- Statistical methods for paired ordinal data
- Statistical properties of rank based measures
- Tax Policy in Developing Countries