Economics (NEK)

The Division of Economics is part of the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out education and research within the field of economics. Economics is a science that covers a wide range of different financial aspects and studies the management of resources.

News

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Make the world wiser with decision-making research

By understanding how decisions are shaped, we can create changes that make a real difference, e.g. for the climate and in healthcare. Gustav Tinghög and Daniel Västfjäll seek new knowledge on human behaviour.

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AI can boost financial decision making

Do you have limited financial knowledge, or prefer not to think about financial issues? Then there is great potential that AI can help, according to LiU researcher Kinga Barrafrem.

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Large donation equals five new professors at LiU

A donation of SEK 125 million enables the establishment of five new professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University. The donation is directed to the subjects of economics, political science, and history.

Research

Within the subject we look at, for example, how individuals make both rational and non-rational economic decisions. Economics is both a social and a behavioural science that uses mainly quantitative methods and experiments to study people, companies, organisations, politics, the public sector, the economy, risk-taking, environmental problems, and poverty.

Research in behavioural economics and neuroeconomics dominates at the division. Examples of issues being studied are the extent to which individuals under different conditions allow intuition, feeling or the rational mind to control economic decisions and risk-taking. Methods such as laboratory experiments and magnetic resonance images of the brain are widely combined and applied. The division encompasses researchers with a background in economics, psychology and neuroscience.

Research into discrimination in the labour market, migration, energy and environmental economics, financial economics, macroeconomics, institutional economics, international trade and transport economy is also carried out at the division.

Publications

2025

Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Md. Naiem Hossain, Hosneara Khatun, Gazi Salah Uddin, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Shu Tian (2025) Using smart transportation assets to hedge fossil energy markets: Evidence from quantile-based VAR approach PLOS ONE, Vol. 20, Article e0317748 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Patrik Thollander, Mariana Andrei, Noor Jalo, Patrik Rohdin, Jenny Palm, Anna Sanno, Johan Colding, Stephan Barthel, Gazi Salah Uddin, Bruna Maria Xavier (2025) Advances in the social construction of energy management and energy efficiency in industry Nature Communications, Vol. 16, Article 4075 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Camilla Strömbäck, Per Andersson, Erkin Asutay, Hulda Karlsson-Larsson, Daniel Västfjäll (2025) Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior iScience, Vol. 28, Article 112389 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Adam P. Balcerzak, Bartlomiej Iglinski, Gazi Salah Uddin, Anupam Dutta, Michal Bernard Pietrzak (2025) Towards cleaner energy transition: Small modular reactors as a feasible revolutionary step in the economics of nuclear energy Equilibrium, Vol. 20, p. 35-47 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lina Koppel, David Andersson, Magnus Johannesson, Eirik Strømland, Gustav Tinghög (2025) Comprehension in economic games Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 234, Article 107039 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Education

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Address

Visiting Address

Division of Economics
Hans Meijers väg
A Building, entrance 19
Campus Valla
Linköping, Sweden

Postal Address

Linköping University
Department of Management and Engineering
Division of Economics
SE-581 83 Linköping
Sweden

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