Research in the Spotlight
Explore SHoF research papers through concise and accessible summaries highlighting key findings and implications.
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Pollution Taxes Push High-Emitting Firms to Invest in R&D
2026-05-19
With Europe tightening carbon-pricing rules while mobilizing hundreds of billions of Euro for sustainable infrastructure and industrial transition, SHoF research suggests emissions taxes can spur...
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When Innovation Goes Private, Wealth Concentrates at the Top
2026-02-10
Private markets play a larger role than ever in financing innovation. New research finds that restricted access to private-firm innovation can explain much of the rise in U.S. top wealth inequality...
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Liquidity, Market Structure, and Europe’s Capital Markets: What the Data Really Show
2026-02-09
For decades, the U.S. equity market has been regarded as the world’s most liquid and efficient. Europe, by contrast, is often described as fragmented, a patchwork of national markets struggling to...
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Green Growth? Sweden’s Carbon Policy Boosted Productivity in Trucking, Study Finds
2025-11-20
Sweden’s push to tax and regulate fossil fuels has long been held up as a test of whether climate policy can coexist with economic growth. An ongoing study of the country’s trucking industry, one of...
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New Study Urges Rethink of Rigid Pension Contributions
2025-10-21
For decades, workers have been forced into retirement systems that treat everyone the same: a flat contribution rate deducted from every paycheck, no matter whether you’re a 25-year-old just scraping...
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CEOs Took a Finance Course—and Their Firms Got More Profitable
2025-09-02
A field experiment in Mozambique by SHoF researchers shows that executive education can transform financial practices, freeing up cash and boosting returns, especially in developing countries.
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Investors Feel Losses More in Calm Markets, Study Finds, Challenging Core Models
2025-08-04
Investors perceive losses as more painful during calm markets than in volatile ones, according to a new study, casting doubt on traditional asset pricing models and offering new insight into how risk...
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Risk Attitudes, Patience, and the Concentration of Wealth at the Top
2025-06-16
Why some people build wealth—and others don’t—comes down to how they think about risk, saving, and investing, new ongoing research shows.
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Not Just Deficits: How Trade Networks, Not Balances, Drive Currency Markets
2025-05-06
As governments contend with rising tariffs, economic nationalism, and geopolitical tensions—from the U.S.-China trade war to sanctions and supply chain shocks driven by war and climate...
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Digital Pension Apps Boost Retirement Contributions, Study Finds
2025-03-10
The introduction of digital pension apps significantly increases voluntary retirement contributions, with the effect most pronounced among higher-income earners and men, a new study finds.
