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Economics

Is there a trade-off between inflation and unemployment? Will artificial intelligence replace our jobs? How should the tax system be designed? And why do women still earn less money than men? Economics studies provide you with theoretical and empirical tools to analyse and investigate societal questions. At Linnaeus University, you can study economics in the economics programme, as part of other programmes, or as single-subject courses.

Economics is a broad subject that comprises many different specialisations like macroeconomics, microeconomics, labour market economics, public economics, political economics, and environmental economics.

Department of Economics and Statistics

The Department of Economics and Statistics at Linnaeus University is an international academic environment in Växjö and Kalmar. We offer undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA) and PhD level courses with dedicated teachers at the forefront of economics and statistics research.

The department is particularly strong in areas such as Labor and Demographic Economics, Public Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics and High-Dimensional Data, including Statistical Learning.

We are part of the School of Business and Economics which is AACSB accredited.

The departments main subjects: Economics, statistics.
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Education

Economics studies provide you with theoretical and empirical tools to analyse and investigate socioeconomic questions. The analysis is based on how individuals, companies and politicians act in a world of limited resources. At Linnaeus University, you can study economics on the unique economics programme, as part of other programmes, or as single-subject courses, on campus or at a distance.

At Linnaeus University, students are trained for qualified analytical work. The department exploits its unique comparative advantage of hosting two quantitatively oriented subjects and offer several courses that integrate the use of modern statistical methods for big data analysis to study economic policy. Our students have a good and broad labour market and are found at government offices, public authorities, the industry, municipalities and county councils, trade and employee organisations, and international organisations.

Research

Most of the research in Economics cover a broad theme about equality of opportunity, policy analysis and "big data" analytics. The department has a strong tradition of translating cutting-edge research into practice by collaborating with the surrounding society. Our research seminar takes place every Wednesday at 13:15-14:30 and features prominent guests from Sweden and abroad.

Staff

Previous professors

Jan Ekberg
Harald Niklasson
Ghazi Shukur
Mårten Palme
Thomas Lindh
Dan-Olof Rooth
Dominique Anxo