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The Econometric Game in Amsterdam is a competition known as the ”World Championship in Econometrics”. And now, after many years of Top 3 positions, the competing LUSEM student team has won the 2021 Game! LUSEM was represented by master’s students Ester Trutwin and Natalie Irmert, and doctoral students Devon Spika and Matthew Collins. They all study Economics at Lund University School of Economics

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-team-wins-world-championship-econometrics - 2026-04-27

Find your unique selling point – and enjoy your studies and your studentlife. That were some of the advice and topics that were touched upon on the webinar “From Lund to leaders – Meet the CEOs of Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank” on 13 April. The CEOs also talked about science-based targets and actions for banking. Watch the full webinar whenever you like to learn more! ”We long for Lund! Lundagår

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ceos-handelsbanken-seb-and-swedbank-their-student-life-lund-and-usp-career-banking - 2026-04-27

Lundensaren is a newsletter that is sent to Lund University alumni. In the March issue of the newsletter, you can read about Pernilla Thellmark. She is a career coach at Lund University School of Economics and Management and she provides you with the questions you should ask yourself to make decisions about your career.Pernilla gives advice on important career questions such as:What are my goals f

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/pernilla-thellmark-lundensaren - 2026-04-27

The Econometric Game in Amsterdam is a competition known as the ”World Championship in Econometrics”. In 2021 LUSEM won the game and now it is time again! LUSEM was represented by a team of four: two first-year PhD students in Economics, Christina Maschmann and Tilman Bretschneider, as well as two master’s students Ida Haggren and Benjámin Olivér Maday who are currently embracing their final month

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-team-wins-world-championship-econometrics-0 - 2026-04-27

Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Why did you chose Sweden and the School of Economics and Management as your study destination?I had moved to Stockholm in 2014 years to work in the British Embassy, I first heard of Lund University from a friend who studied in Lund and went on to a successful career. After eight years in the Diplomatic service, I wanted to focus my career to be more econo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/william-dendy-alumnus-msc-economics-2017 - 2026-04-27

Jonas Helgertz, researcher at both the CED and the Department of Economic History, as well as Vice Dean for Research at LUSEM, has been appointed professor in Economic History from May 1. We send warm well-wishes on this achievement Jonas!

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ced-researcher-jonas-helgertz-appointed-professor - 2026-04-27

Data literacy is increasing its importance for current and future professionals. But what is ‘data literacy’ exactly and how do LUSEM educators work with it? We asked Blerim Emruli, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, and recently announced as one of the select participants in the Inaugural Professor Ambassador Class at Qlik. Senior Lecturer Blerim Emruli is one of seven educators from around the glob

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/data-has-power-transform-business-and-improve-society - 2026-04-27

Graduation was approaching and alumnus Erik Månsson didn't know what he wanted to do. A few months later he received the diploma in his hand, as well as his first job - CEO for a start-up within Food Tech. We had a talk with Erik about his job - as well as the start-up world, student life and sources of inspiration. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Erik, tell us about what you do today!I

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erik-mansson-alumnus-bsc-business-and-economics-2019 - 2026-04-27

Spearheaded by Lund University’s Department of Business Law and supported by the Embassy of Sweden in China, this was the first high-level Swedish scholarly delegation, focusing on sustainable development after the Covid-19 pandemic to visit China. The visit, involving week-long events from 18th – 22nd March 2024, centered around the “Sino-Swedish Colloquium on Global Sustainability Governance”. I

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-leads-swedish-scholarly-delegation-china - 2026-04-27

“Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his doctoral thesis, titled “Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institut

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-research-swedens-industrialisation-process-receives-lusem-award-best-doctoral-thesis-2023 - 2026-04-27

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and Sparbanken Skåne are founding a joint centre for sustainable enterprising at Lund University. Together, they are investing several million SEK in the centre, which will start welcoming new doctoral students across a variety of research collaborations this autumn. The focus is on the transition to a mor

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/major-investment-new-interdisciplinary-centre-sustainable-enterprising-lund - 2026-04-27

LUSEM did it again! LUSEM is delighted to announce their latest EQUIS re-accreditation from EFMD, still joining a select group of esteemed institutions recognised for excellence in business education. For several months, several staff members at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) have been working on the report for EQUIS, in anticipation of the EQUIS delegation's site visit

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-receives-prestigious-re-accreditation-confirming-excellence-business-education - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do different societies deal with bullying and degrading behavior at schools? Antoinette Hetzler and Colm Flaherty investigate this by examining the ways in which Sweden and the US attempt to guarantee the social rights of students at school. Their article has just appeared in the European Journal of Cultural and P

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-and-flaherty-guaranteeing-social-rights-students-us-and-swedish-schools - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How is authenticity enacted in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia? Which role do local and global (sub)cultures play in these enactments? Erik Hannerz has contributed a book chapter on “Emplacing Punk: Subcultural Boundary Work and Space in Indonesia” to the book edited by Julian Ch Lee and Marco Ferrarese. Description

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-punks-monks-and-politics - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What constitutes the subcultural? In Erik Hannerz’s recent contribution to the Journal Educare (no. 2, 2016), he refines subcultural theory by drawing on examples from the Indonesian and Swedish punk scene. Abstract:Arguing against the previous research’s presump on that the subcultural constitutes a single set of mea

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-two-articles-subcultural-and-using-instagram-researching-graffiti - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Why did Trump win? Or more precisely, how did Hillary lose? Why were so many experts so wrong about Trump’s support? How will Trump’s victory affect the lives of ordinary Americans? Steven Sampson discusses this in his recent piece “Angry white males as suffering subjects” published in Focaal blog.Learn more on focaal

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-angry-white-males - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Priscilla Solano defended her dissertation ”Assisting in the Shadows. Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics” today at 10:15 in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of BristolAssisting in the Shadows: Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/priscilla-solano-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminis

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-bio-politics-population-control - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Elin Ennerberg defended her thesis "Destination employment? Contradictions and ambiguities in Swedish labour market policy for newly arrived migrants" today at 13:15 in the auditorium at St Algatan 4, Lund. Discussant Professor Sven Hort, Linnéuniversitet.Elin Ennerberg's personal page.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elin-ennerberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter in the recently published anthology "Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning". Read the textAnders Kjellberg's personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-self-regulation-versus-state-regulation-swedish-industrial-relations - 2026-04-27