About us

The Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics is Sweden’s national research center for financial economics. It hosts internationally distinguished researchers, and enables financial research and development of the highest quality.

Swedish House of Finance office entrance at Stockholm School of Economics

The center serves as an independent platform where academia and both the private and public financial sectors can exchange knowledge, foster new ideas and gain access to a global network of the most prominent researchers in finance.

The Swedish House of Finance is an equally private and government funded, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. It hosts approximately 40 resident research fellows with research assistants, as well as around 30 PhD students in finance.

History

The Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 2011 by the Stockholm School of Economics and the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) through a government initiative to strengthen financial research in Sweden with the aim to be one of the top research institutions in Europe.

The Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) was established in 2001 by an initiative from the Swedish financial sector with the purpose to support research in finance and step up the dialogue between researchers and decision-makers in the private and public sector.

Since SIFR and the Swedish House of Finance share the same ultimate goals, the two organizations merged in June 2016 and decided to act under one name: the Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Organization

The Swedish House of Finance is an equally private and government funded, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. It hosts approximately 70 researchers, consisting of resident and affiliated professors as well as PhD students.

Board
Management Committee
Data Center
Research
Outreach
PhD Program
Admin/infrastructure

Objectives

The Swedish House of Finance provides an independent platform for dialogue, open to everyone with an interest in finance. The center generates daily contact between academia, the public, and the private financial sectors which in turn leads to new research, new private initiatives, and a basis for better decisions and meaningful regulation of the financial sector. The center is a vital part of the research and development that is necessary to continue to develop Sweden as one of the leading financial centers in Europe and to support the development of a strong Swedish economy and rate of innovation.

The center has succeeded in attracting world-class academic researchers, as well as top-tier students. It has built an ecosystem for financial research and development. This provides decision-makers in Sweden with access to the world’s collective expertise in finance.

The fundamental objectives of the Swedish House of Finance are:

  • to strengthen financial academic research in Sweden
  • to create impact through achieving a critical mass of world class academic researchers
  • to share positive externalities with the private, public and academic sectors in Sweden

The Swedish House of Finance achieve this by providing a common platform for:

  • Creating a common physical research infrastructure
  • Establishing a national center for financial data
  • Launching a doctoral course program in finance available to all doctoral students in Sweden
  • Carrying out programs for research interactions: to provide open seminar series, invite guest researchers, and arrange conferences
  • Supporting the recruitment of international researchers to Swedish academic institutions
  • Sharing its research infrastructure with researchers in Sweden
  • Obtaining research financing from the Swedish financial industry