University of Gothenburg

People

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

Bigsten, Arne Professor Emeritus
Development economics; International economics

Bolin, Kristian
Health Economics; Microeconomics; Economic Evaluation

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

Durevall, Dick, Senior Professor
Development Macroeconomics; International Economics; Food Markets; HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

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

Hjalmarsson, Erik
Empirical Asset Pricing; Empirical Market Microstructure; Financial Econometrics; Time Series 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 Labour Economics

Martinsson, Peter
Behavioural 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, Long-run Development, Political Economy of Natural Resources, Development Economics

Sandelin, Bo Professor Emeritus

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

Tyrefors, Björn 
Empirical Labor; Political Economics

Lecturers and Assistant Professors

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

Boman, Anders
Health Economics; Labour Economics; Geographic Mobility

Carlsson, Evert
Pensions; Incentive Systems; Corporate Governance

Chen, Li (on leave)
Microeconomics; Market Design; Industrial Organization

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

Coria, Jessica
Environmental Economics; Industrial Organization; Regulatory Economics; Applied Microeconomics

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

Frey, Jonas
Empirical asset pricing: Behavioural Economics; Experimental Finance.

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

Jiao, Xiyu
Econometric Theory; Empirical Processes; Outlier Robustness; Nonlinear Cointegration; Model Selection; Instrumental Variables

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

Köhlin, Gunnar Director of Environment of Development (EfD)
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

Ljungwall, Christer

Löfgren, Åsa
Environmental Economics; Economics of Climate Change; Behavioural Economics; Industrial Investment Behaviour

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

Petri, Henrik
Corporate finance; Decision theory

Ranehill, Eva
Behavioural Economics; Experimental Economics; Applied Microeconomics.

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

Vecci, Joseph
Development Economics; Experimental Economics

Xiao, Yun
Applied microeconomics;

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

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

Researchers and Postdocs

Bergvall, Sanna
Labour Economics; Education Economics; Gender Economics

Dunaiski-Kovacs, Roxanne (on leave)
Health economics; Development economics

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie
Empirical Development Economics; Governance; Inequality; Aid; African development; Gender

Maican, Florin
Industrial Organization; Applied Econometrics; International Finance; Computational Economics; Applied Microeconomics

Nordfors, Nicklas
Development Economics, Environmental Economics​​​​​​​

Pihl, Ariel (on leave)
Labour Economics; Policy Evaluation; Applied Microeconomics

Poignant, Adrian
Development Economics, Labor Economics

Westergren, Kerstin

Wikström, Jens
Health economics; Economics of social insurance

Affiliated Faculty and Guest Researchers

Alger, Ingela 
Guest Professor

Ahlerup, Pelle
Affiliated Researcher

Bayrak, Oben 
Guest Lecturer

Bilén, David 
Affiliated Researcher

Drupp, Moritz
Guest Professor

Dufwenberg, Martin 
Guest Professor, Honorary doctor

Enlund, Jakob 
Affiliated Researcher

Helénsdotter, Ronja
Affiliated Researcher

Karlsson, Martin
Affiliated Professor

Ketel, Nadine
Affiliated Researcher

Kirchler, Michael 
Visiting Professor

Kjellson, Gustav
Researcher

Lindé, Jesper 
Guest Professor

Norrgren, Lisa 
Affiliated Researcher

Ornstein, Petra
Affiliated Researcher

Okui, Ryo
Visiting Professor

Valsecchi, Michele 
Affiliated Researcher

Hide-Fumi Yokoo
Visiting Researcher

Zamojski, Marcin 
Guest Lecturer

Zhao, Yuejun 
Affiliated Researcher

Administrative staff

Shamso Abdullahi
Study Administrator

Axel Bondemark (on leave)
Human Resources Officer

Malin Ericsson
Human Resources Officer

Annika Florin
Study Administrator

Katarina Forsberg
Coordinator

Marie Iwanow
Human Resources Officer

Mona Jönefors
Financal Officer

Agneta Kinnander
Administrator

Jessica Oscarsson
Communications Officer

Maria Otterdahl
Administrative Manager

Margareta Ransgård
External Funds

Katarina Renström
Programme Coordinator

Ann-Christin Räätäri Nyström (on leave)
Human Resources Officer

Johan Sandgren
Financal Officer

Christina Varkki
Study Administrator

Anna-Karin Ågren
Study Counsellor