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.

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Jeanne Cilliers is LiU’s Professor of Economic History

"Almost everything we experience today has historical parallels," says Jeanne Cilliers, new professor of economic history at LiU. She is interested in demographic processes such as marriage, fertility and mortality.

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Medical scientists apply the strictest ethics – at least in theory

Medical scientists are stricter while natural, social and humanities scientists are more permissive. The attitude to ethically problematic ways of conducting research differs clearly between disciplines, according to a study from LiU.

Portrait of Daniel Västfjäll and Gustav Tinghög

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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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.

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Transport Economics and Policy

We are growing research group at LiU. The core of our research is economic analysis of transport systems, usually applied on or motivated by transport policy issues related to the climate, welfare, equity, gender equality and the labour market.

JEDI-lab

We at JEDI lab at Linköping University conduct research on intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decision-making. The aim of our research is to understand everyday decision-making and its underlying processes.

Applied Microeconomics

The research in applied microeconomics covers a variety of areas such as labor economics, law economics, religion and economics, transport economics, international economics, health economics, development economics and environmental economics.

Publications

2026

Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Harry T. Clelland, Marton Kovacs, Felix Holzmeister, Don van Ravenzwaaij, Hannah Schulz-Kümpel, Sabine Hoffmann, Gustav Nilsonne, Livia Kosa, Zoltan A. Torma, Yousuf Abdelfatah, Christopher L. Aberson, Oguz A. Acar, Ensar Acem, Matus Adamkovic, Timofey Adamovich, Krisna Adiasto, Love Ahnström, Atakan M. Akil, Adil S. Al-Busaidi, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Casper J. Albers, Peter J. Allen, Taym Alsalti, Micah Altman, Shilaan Alzahawi, Ettore Ambrosini, Saule Anafinova, Rahul Anand, Martin Angerer, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, Alberto Antonietti, Jozsef Arato, Andreu Arenas, Marco M. Aviña, Flavio Azevedo, Marko Bachl, Bence Bago, Štěpán Bahník, Bradley J. Baker, Elza Balayan, Cassandra L. Baldwin, Benjamin Banai, Kasia Banas, František Bartoš, Ernest Baskin, Jojanneke A. Bastiaansen, Nadège Bault, Christopher W. Bauman, Quintin H. Beazer, Maciej Behnke, Theiss Bendixen, Sebastian Berger, Anna Bernard, Ursa Bernardic, Paul A. Bloom, Annika Boldt, Ciril Bosch-Rosa, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Adam Bouyamourn, Ozge Bozkurt, Laurel Brehm, Johannes Breuer, Ryan Briggs, Hilmar Brohmer, Erin Buchanan, Johannes Buckenmaier, Jeffrey Buckley, Jacek Buczny, Matthias Burghart, Bilal H. Butt, Nick Byrd, Valentina Cafarelli, Patrick Callahan, Tabaré Capitán, Kevin Carriere, Andrea M. Cataldo, Gabriel Cepaluni, Eugene Chan, Jesse J. Chandler, Chia-chen Chang, Xi Chen, Shirley Shuo Chen, Fadong Chen, Hao Chen, Valerii Chirkov, Daniela Cialfi, Beth Clarke, Sophie G. Coelho, Clara Cohen, Jason Collins, Susan W. Cook, Gaia Corlazzoli, Jamie Cummins, Christian Czymara, Jonathan D’hondt, Anna Dalla Rosa, Abi M. B. Davis, Charles P. Davis, Martin V. Day, Freya De Keyzer, Joshua R. de Leeuw, Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Ramit Debnath, Filip Dechterenko, Elif E. Demiral, Marc Desgroseilliers, Dominik Dianovics, Veronica Diveica, Stephan Dochow-Sondershaus, Simone Dohle, LiChen Dong, Jonas Dora, Angela R. Dorrough, Anna Dreber, Hongfei Du, John E. Edlund, Anita Eerland, Emir Efendić, Jacob Elder, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Mareike Ernst, Eduardo Estrada, Luis Eudave, Thomas R. Evans, Arodi Farrera, El Mehdi Ferrouhi, Lenka Fiala, Fabrício M. Fialho, Joshua L. Fiechter, Miloš Fišar, Pablo Ezequiel Flores-Kanter, Michał Folwarczny, Jessica L. Fossum, Vithor R. Franco, René Freichel, Danilo Freire, Joris Frese, Alexander C. Furnas, Johann D. Gaebler, Lisa C. Gajary, Carl Michael Galang, Benjamin Ganschow, S. Mason Garrison, Agata Gasiorowska, Bruno Gasparotto Ponne, Romain Gauriot, Alice Geminiani, Diogo Geraldes, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Cinzia Giani, Enrico Glerean, Vukašin Gligorić, Timo Gnambs, Amélie Godefroidt, Bastián González-Bustamante, Andreas Goreis, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Manuel Grieder, Dmitry Grigoryev, Sandra Grinschgl, David J. Grüning, João F. Guassi Moreira, Clément Guichet, Lilas Gurgand, Hooman Habibnia, Andrew C. Hafenbrack, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Carolin Häffner, Felix Hagemeister, Matthew Haigh, Nandor Hajdu, Narges Hajimoladarvish, Jonathan D. Hall, Maik Hamjediers, Robert M. Hardwick, Mehmet Harma, Nicholas R. Harp, Áron D. Hartvig, Raphael H. Heiberger, Arthur Heim, Øystein Hernæs, Dennis Hernaus, Tom Heyman, Joshua Hicks, Jeremy Hogeveen, Julia Höpler, Sean Dae Houlihan, Christoph Huber, Conor Hughes, Teresa Hummler, Karoline Huth, Moritz Ingendahl, Tatsunori Ishii, Ozan Isler, Kamil Izydorczak, Iain R. Jackson, Andrew Jahn, Maitri Jain, Alexander Jakubow, Daisung Jang, JunHyeok Jang, Marc Jekel, Fanli Jia, William Jiménez-Leal, Rebecca Johnson, Alex Jones, Sebastian Jungkunz, Pavol Kačmár, Caspar Kaiser, Yağmur Kalaycı, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Anıl Karabulut, Julian D. Karch, Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani, Johannes A. Karl, Austėja Kažemekaitytė, Aliaksandr Kazlou, Zoltan Kekecs, Jin Kim, Michael H. Kirchler, Bence Kiss-Dobronyi, Kai N. Klasmeier, Jack W. Klein, Cemal Koba, Marta Kołczyńska, Pavlos Kolias, Matěj Kolouch Grabovský, Max Korbmacher, Živa Korda, Marta Kowal, André Kretzschmar, Vladislav Krivoshchekov, Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos, Marcus Kubsch, Yoshihiko Kunisato, David Lacko, Jan R. Landwehr, Martin Lange, Hongmi Lee, Daniel Lee, Sangil Lee, Edward P. Lemay, Daniel Lempert, Andrea Leo, Elise Lesage, Joel M. Levin, Peng Li, Jing Lin, Luke Lindsay, Daria Lisovoj, Meng Liu, Sihong Liu, Tingshu Liu, Sergio Lo Iacono, Paul Lodder, Rubén López-Bueno, Ruben Lopez-Nicolas, Katharina Loter, Nigel Mantou Lou, Andrey Lovakov, Jackson G. Lu, Jonas Ludwig, Finn Luebber, Jiří Lukavský, Charles Q. Luo, Xuanyu Lyu, Esther Maassen, Martin Máčel, Michael L. Mack, Christopher R. Madan, Andreas Mädebach, Joseph Maffly-Kipp, Daniel J. Mallinson, Igor Marchetti, Tyler Marghetis, Matteo M. Marini, Diego Marino Fages, Mayte Martínez, Mario Martinoli, Aidas Masiliunas, Sébastien Massoni, Kaleb C. Mathieu, Stefan Mayer, Duncan J. Mayer, Maren Mayer, Ethan M. McCormick, Ian M. McDonough, Amanda L. McGowan, Miranda M. McIntyre, Paul McKee, Armando N. Meier, Pascal F. Meier, Helena Melero, Christoph Merkle, Raphael Merz, Michalis P. Michaelides, Patrik Michaelsen, Gosia Mikolajczak (2026) Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences Nature, Vol. 652, p. 135-142 (Article in journal)

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Adam P. Balcerzak, Bartlomiej Iglinski, Michal Bernard Pietrzak, Anupam Dutta, Gazi Salah Uddin (2026) Harnessing wind energy: Can it become a strategic driver of national energy security and the global energy transition? Oeconomia Copernicana, Vol. 17, p. 15-29 (Article in journal)

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Mimmi Gustafsson, Umba Nsabimana, Ali Ahmed (2026) Gender and Lone Parenthood in Rental Housing: Theory and Experiment Housing, Theory and Society (Article in journal)

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Ajsuna Ragipi Rushid (2026) Marginal Infrastructure Costs and Pricing in Road and Rail Transport

Lina Koppel, Amanda M. Lindkvist, Gustav Tinghög (2026) Money talks? How different incentive schemes influence prosocial behavior in economic games Experimental Economics (Article in journal)

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Education

The Division of Economics gives courses in 11 different programs. Economics is a key area in the MBA programme, International MBA programme, Political Science programme and the Master's programme in Economics. The division also offers single-subject courses and postgraduate courses.

Programmes

Business Administration - Strategy and Management in International Organisations, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Aims to equip future leaders with good judgement and an ability to make well-balanced decisions. Combines fundamental thinking, reasoning and skills to prepare students to go beyond applying known solutions to known problems. International focus.

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International and European Relations, Master's Programme, 120 credits

European relations in the international society and global governance, with focus on Europe’s role in world affairs. Topics include international law and security, European institutions and external relations, research design and methodology.

Contact us

Head of Division

Director of Studies

General information and Contact for Students

Study Adviser

Study Adviser

Staff

Chowdhury Abdullah-Al- Baki

PhD student

Ali Ahmed

Professor, Head of Division

David Andersson

Principal Research Engineer

Associate Professor, Docent

Kinga Barrafrem

Associate Professor, Docent

Mohammad Rakib Uddin Bhuiyan

Adjunct Associate Professor

Patrik Michaelsen

Emil Persson

Associate Professor, Docent

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

Organisation

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

Economics (NEK)

News

Jeanne Cilliers is LiU’s Professor of Economic History

Medical scientists apply the strictest ethics – at least in theory

Make the world wiser with decision-making research

Michael Cocozza invests heavily in knowledge with lasting impact

AI can boost financial decision making

Large donation equals five new professors at LiU

Researchers overestimate their own honesty

Digitalisation and sustainability - a crucial factor for a competitive society

Research at IEI holds a high standard

Future car travel may be cheaper – and more expensive

Research at IEI Ranked Highly in U.S. News’ Global Ranking

IEI researchers among the world´s most cited

Moral illusions may alter our behaviour

Study: The group most easily misled by financial "bullshit"

More than SEK 30 million from Formas

Information can reduce selfish behaviour

Men obstructed from entering female-dominated occupations

The road from democracy to autocracy

How personality influences financial decisions

Employers reject transgender people

More operations are scheduled if doctor is well rested

Money remains in men´s hands

We’re poor at interpreting immigration facts

LiU researcher to be awarded SEK 1.7 million for her doctoral thesis

Calendar

Research

Transport Economics and Policy

JEDI-lab

Applied Microeconomics

Publications

2026

Education

Programmes

Business Administration - Strategy and Management in International Organisations, Master's Programme, 120 credits

International and European Relations, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Contact us

Head of Division

Director of Studies

General information and Contact for Students

Study Adviser

Study Adviser

Staff

Address

Visiting Address

Postal Address

Organisation

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

About LiU

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