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Åsa Hansson, Associate Professor of Economics at LUSEM, has been appointed by the Swedish government to lead a new investigation about Sweden’s declining birth rate. Birth rates in Sweden have been falling. According to Statistics Sweden (SCB), 98,451 children were born in 2024 — 1,600 fewer than in 2023. This trend is seen across all societal groups and regions. Research shows that one in four yo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-are-fewer-children-being-born-sweden - 2025-10-02

The Sparbanken Skåne Center for Sustainable Enterprising (SSCEN) at Lund University and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn award an annual thesis prize to encourage business and engineering students to contribute with valuable knowledge on how to achieve a sustainability transformation. To be considered for the prize, the thesis should be written for obtaining a master’s degree in business studies at LUSEM

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/call-nominations-sscen-sustainability-prize-masters-theses-2025 - 2025-10-02

The World Economic History Congress (WEHC) is an international and interdisciplinary event, taking place every third year, and this year, it’s being held in Lund. With the congress fast approaching, we naturally wanted to learn more — and who better to ask than Professor Mats Olsson serving as host on behalf of the Department of Economic History. What makes the World Economic History Congress uniq

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-world-economic-history-congress-three-quick-questions - 2025-10-02

Bulgaria is on its way to adopting the euro. Joakim Zander, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at LUSEM, explains what this means. What does it mean for a country to switch to the euro? In a recent interview with Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio), Joakim Zander, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at LUSEM, discussed Bulgaria’s transition into the euro area.On 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will officially adopt

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lev-euro-what-happens-when-bulgaria-changes-currency - 2025-10-02

Lund University continues to rise in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is rated number 72 in the world. That is three places higher than last year and means that Lund University is the top-ranked higher education institution in Sweden. The QS World University Rankings has published annual university rankings since 2004. In the latest QS rankings (2026), 8,467 higher education institutions

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-72nd-qs-world-rankings-2026 - 2025-10-02

When 1,200 researchers from 60 countries arrived at the end of July, it marked a milestone: the largest academic congress ever held in the city – and the most important event in the field of economic history worldwide. For one week, the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) transformed Lund into a hub for ideas, networking, and public engagement. “I was very nervous right up until Monday morning,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/nerves-pride-lusem-made-history-lund-universitys-largest-congress - 2025-10-02

Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in the sector, and what happens when even poorer countries begin to compete by paying even lower wages for the seamstresses in the factories? Linn Ternsjö has studied the clothing manufacturing industry in Mauritius from a sustainability perspec

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/model-inclusive-growth-or-warning-lessons-garment-industry-mauritius - 2025-10-02

Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. The trade wars have clearly affected the global

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2025-10-02

For decades, doctors have warned parents that too much TV can harm children’s development. After all, television is one of the main activities in kids’ daily lives, and school performance plays a crucial role in shaping their future opportunities in the job market. It’s no wonder that physicians and educators have long been concerned about how hours spent in front of the screen might affect learni

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/can-technological-innovations-entertainment-boost-academic-performance - 2025-10-02

Docent vid Institutionen för informatik, Miranda Kajtazi, är för närvarande involverad i en blandning av interna och externa anslag. Vid Pufendorfinstitutet leder Miranda Kajtazi en Avanced Study Group vid namn "Human Rights, Digital Inequalities, and Social Consequences of AI”. Projektet pågår från september 2023 till juni 2024.(engelska)"This ASG focuses on digital innovations by exploring the l

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ai-manskliga-rattigheter-och-digital-valfard-miranda-kajtazi-tar-initiativ - 2025-10-02

Institutionen för informatik använder Microsoft Azure som moln-lösning för studenter på det systemvetenskapliga kandidatprogrammet. Det tillåter oss att ha fullständiga BYOD-lösningar i våra datorsalar, vilket lockar studenter till campus samtidigt som det sparar energi och pengar. Informatiks studierektor Björn Svensson intervjuades av Microsoft för en artikel i ”Din digitala skola”, där han berä

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/moln-losning-med-azure-bjorn-svensson-intervjuad-av-microsoft - 2025-10-02

Vill du utöka ditt professionella nätverk och lära dig av branschexperter inom och utanför ditt område? Upptäck hur LinkedIn kan ge oväntade möjligheter och skapa kontakter med människor runt om i världen, från de insikter Markus Lahtinen delade med sig av under sitt seminarium "Beyond expectations: Learn more about LinkedIn!”. Markus, med över 5000 kontakter och en topp 2% SSI (Social Selling Ind

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/lar-dig-mer-om-linkedin-med-markus-lahtinen - 2025-10-02

Dr Viswanath Venkatesh lockade en stor publik till sitt seminarium "Let's Get Ready to Contextualize", där han talade om vikten av kontextualisering inom forskning. Dr Venkatesh delade med sig av sin senaste forskning inom kontextualisering, inklusive diskussioner om:Problem kopplade till brist på kontext i forskning;Vad forskare ställs inför i nya sammanhang; Hur man kan tänka kring konceptet vet

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/viswanath-venkatesh-haller-seminarium-pa-informatik - 2025-10-02

Docent Vincenzo Corvello, som kommer till oss från universitetet i Messina, är en etablerad verksamhets- och innovationsforskare samt chefredaktör för European Journal of Innovation Management. Vincenzo Corvello, som presenterades av Markus Lahtinen, började sitt besök med ett "Meet-and-greet" och gav en kort presentation av sin senaste forskning om samarbete mellan storföretag och startup-företag

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/informatik-valkomnar-vincenzo-corvello-med-en-meet-and-greet-fika - 2025-10-02

Sedan lanseringen i november 2022 har ChatGPT skapat internationella rubriker. Det har uttryckts oro för att ChatGPT och generativ AI kan användas som ett verktyg för fusk, men adjunkterna Markus Lahtinen och Björn Svensson utmanar denna rädsla genom att aktivt integrera chattboten i institutionens utbildningar. "Att få in [ChatGPT] i vår utbildning är helt enkelt nödvändigt och att orientera och

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/informatik-integrerar-chatgpt-i-sin-utbildning - 2025-10-02

”Research has shown that the weight of the tariffs imposed by the last Trump administration were mainly carried by US importers and consumers. None of the tariff revenue actually came from abroad,” says Maria Persson, associate professor in Economics at LUSEM. Maria shares a short anecdote about how tariffs on washing machines led to an increase in their prices by up to 225% of the tariff, but not

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/key-takeaways-first-weeks-donald-trumps-return-presidency - 2025-10-02

Fredrik Fletcher is in his final semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked him a few questions about his experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “After having completed the Social Sciences Programme targeting behavioural science at a sports-focused upper-secondary school

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-fredrik-fletcher - 2025-10-02

E-scooters have reshaped the way people move around cities and their impact on traffic safety has become a public concern. Andreas Bergh, associate professor in economics explains that his research has found a small increase in accidents following the introduction of e-scooters, but that the effect decreases over time. He also points out that just counting e-scooter accidents in isolation is the w

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-news-comment-e-scooters-and-traffic-accidents - 2025-10-02

Application numbers for this autumn’s international programmes show outstanding results for Lund University and LUSEM. The most popular programme at Lund University is our Bachelor's programme in International Business, which is also the most popular programme in Sweden, across all categories. On top of that, five of the ten most popular Master's programmes in Sweden are offered at Lund University

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/record-breaking-numbers-lusems-international-programmes - 2025-10-02

Megan Andrews is in her second semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “I am originally from Canada, but moved to Sweden four years ago to live with my fiancé. In my home country, I studied psychology

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-megan-andrews - 2025-10-02