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

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.

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.

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.

Cars driving through bridge tull station

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

2025

Viktoria Cologna, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schaefer, Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abdulsalam, Nurulaini Abu Shamsi, Balazs Aczel, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Mohammed Alsobay, Marlene Altenmueller, R. Michael Alvarez, Richard Amoako, Tabitha Amollo, Patrick Ansah, Denisa Apriliawati, Flavio Azevedo, Ani Bajrami, Ronita Bardhan, Keagile Bati, Eri Bertsou, Cornelia Betsch, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Rahul Bhui, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michal Bilewicz, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Katherine Breeden, Amelie Bret, Ondrej Buchel, Pablo Cabrera-Alvarez, Federica Cagnoli, Andre Calero Valdez, Timothy Callaghan, Rizza Kaye Cases, Sami Coksan, Gabriela Czarnek, Steven De Peuter, Ramit Debnath, Sylvain Delouvee, Lucia Di Stefano, Celia Diaz-Catalan, Kimberly C. Doell, Simone Dohle, Karen M. Douglas, Charlotte Dries, Dmitrii Dubrov, Malgorzata Dziminska, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Benjamin Enke, Tom W. Etienne, Matthew Facciani, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Md. Zaki Faisal, Xiaoli Fan, Christina Farhart, Christoph Feldhaus, Marinus Ferreira, Stefan Feuerriegel, Helen Fischer, Jana Freundt, Malte Friese, Simon Fuglsang, Albina Gallyamova, Patricia Garrido-Vasquez, Mauricio E. Garrido Vasquez, Winfred Gatua, Oliver Genschow, Omid Ghasemi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Jamie L. Gloor, Ellen Goddard, Mario Gollwitzer, Claudia Gonzalez-Brambila, Hazel Gordon, Dmitry Grigoryev, Gina M. Grimshaw, Lars Guenther, Havard Haarstad, Dana Harari, Lelia N. Hawkins, Przemyslaw Hensel, Alma Cristal Hernandez-Mondragon, Atar Herziger, Guanxiong Huang, Markus Huff, Mairead Hurley, Nygmet Ibadildin, Maho Ishibashi, Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Younes Jeddi, Tao Jin, Charlotte A. Jones, Sebastian Jungkunz, Dominika Jurgiel, Zhangir Kabdulkair, Jo-Ju Kao, Sarah Kavassalis, John R. Kerr, Mariana Kitsa, Tereza Klabikova Rabova, Olivier Klein, Hoyoun Koh, Aki Koivula, Lilian Kojan, Elizaveta Komyaginskaya, Laura Koenig, Lina Koppel, Kochav Koren Nobre Cavalcante, Alexandra Kosachenko, John Kotcher, Laura S. Kranz, Pradeep Krishnan, Silje Kristiansen, Andre Krouwel, Toon Kuppens, Eleni A. Kyza, Claus Lamm, Anthony Lantian, Aleksandra Lazic, Oscar Lecuona, Jean-Baptiste Legal, Zoe Leviston, Neil Levy, Amanda M. Lindkvist, Gregoire Lits, Andreas Loeschel, Alberto Lopez Ortega, Carlos Lopez-Villavicencio, Nigel Mantou Lou, Chloe H. Lucas, Kristin Lunz-Trujillo, Mathew D. Marques, Sabrina J. Mayer, Ryan McKay, Hugo Mercier, Julia Metag, Taciano L. Milfont, Joanne M. Miller, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy Monge-Rodriguez, Matt Motta, Iryna Mudra, Zarja Mursic, Jennifer Namutebi, Eryn J. Newman, Jonas P. Nitschke, Ntui-Njock Vincent Ntui, Daniel Nwogwugwu, Thomas Ostermann, Tobias Otterbring, Jaime Palmer-Hague, Myrto Pantazi, Philip Paernamets, Paolo Parra Saiani, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Michal Parzuchowski, Yuri G. Pavlov, Adam R. Pearson, Myron A. Penner, Charlotte R. Pennington, Katerina Petkanopoulou, Marija B. Petrovic, Jan Pfaender, Dinara Pisareva, Adam Ploszaj, Karolina Poliakova, Ekaterina Pronizius, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Diwa Malaya A. Quinones, Pekka Raesaenen, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Felix G. Rebitschek, Cintia Refojo Seronero, Gabriel Rego, James P. Reynolds, Joseph Roche, Simone Roedder, Jan Philipp Roeer, Robert M. Ross, Isabelle Ruin, Osvaldo Santos, Ricardo R. Santos, Philipp Schmid, Stefan Schulreich, Bermond Scoggins, Amena Sharaf, Justin Sheria Nfundiko, Emily Shuckburgh, Johan Six, Nevin Solak, Leonhard Spaeth, Bram Spruyt, Olivier Standaert, Samantha K. Stanley, Gert Storms, Noel Strahm, Stylianos Syropoulos, Barnabas Szaszi, Ewa Szumowska, Mikihito Tanaka, Claudia Teran-Escobar, Boryana Todorova, Abdoul Kafid Toko, Renata Tokrri, Daniel Toribio-Florez, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Tyrala, OEzden Melis Ulug, Ijeoma Chinwe Uzoma, Jochem van Noord, Christiana Varda, Steven Verheyen, Iris Vilares, Madalina Vlasceanu, Andreas von Bubnoff, Iain Walker, Izabela Warwas, Marcel Weber, Tim Weninger, Mareike Westfal, Florian Wintterlin, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Ziqian Xia, Jinliang Xie, Ewa Zegler-Poleska, Amber Zenklusen, Rolf A. Zwaan (2025) Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries Nature Human Behaviour (Article in journal)

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Filip Hallden, Anna Hultberg, Ali Ahmed, Gazi Salah Uddin, Muhammad Yahya, Victor Troster (2025) The role of institutional quality on public renewable energy investments Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, Vol. 215, Article 115585 (Article in journal)

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Niels G. Mede, Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schafer, Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abdulsalam, Nurulaini Abu Shamsi, Balazs Aczel, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Mohammed Alsobay, Marlene Altenmueller, R. Michael Alvarez, Richard Amoako, Tabitha Amollo, Patrick Ansah, Denisa Apriliawati, Flavio Azevedo, Ani Bajrami, Ronita Bardhan, Keagile Bati, Eri Bertsou, Cornelia Betsch, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Rahul Bhui, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michal Bilewicz, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Katherine Breeden, Amelie Bret, Ondrej Buchel, Pablo Cabrera-Alvarez, Federica Cagnoli, Andre Calero Valdez, Timothy Callaghan, Rizza Kaye Cases, Sami Coksan, Gabriela Czarnek, Steven De Peuter, Ramit Debnath, Sylvain Delouvee, Lucia Di Stefano, Celia Diaz-Catalan, Kimberly C. Doell, Simone Dohle, Karen M. Douglas, Charlotte Dries, Dmitrii Dubrov, Malgorzata Dziminska, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Benjamin Enke, Tom W. Etienne, Matthew Facciani, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Md. Zaki Faisal, Xiaoli Fan, Christina Farhart, Christoph Feldhaus, Marinus Ferreira, Stefan Feuerriegel, Helen Fischer, Jana Freundt, Malte Friese, Simon Fuglsang, Albina Gallyamova, Patricia Garrido-Vasquez, Mauricio E. Garrido Vasquez, Winfred Gatua, Oliver Genschow, Omid Ghasemi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Jamie L. Gloor, Ellen Goddard, Mario Gollwitzer, Claudia Gonzalez-Brambila, Hazel Gordon, Dmitry Grigoryev, Gina M. Grimshaw, Lars Guenther, Havard Haarstad, Dana Harari, Lelia N. Hawkins, Przemyslaw Hensel, Alma Cristal Hernandez-Mondragon, Atar Herziger, Guanxiong Huang, Markus Huff, Mairead Hurley, Nygmet Ibadildin, Maho Ishibashi, Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Younes Jeddi, Tao Jin, Charlotte A. Jones, Sebastian Jungkunz, Dominika Jurgiel, Zhangir Kabdulkair, Jo-Ju Kao, Sarah Kavassalis, John R. Kerr, Mariana Kitsa, Tereza Klabikova Rabova, Olivier Klein, Hoyoun Koh, Aki Koivula, Lilian Kojan, Elizaveta Komyaginskaya, Laura Koenig, Lina Koppel, Kochav Koren Nobre Cavalcante, Alexandra Kosachenko, John Kotcher, Laura S. Kranz, Pradeep Krishnan, Silje Kristiansen, Andre Krouwel, Toon Kuppens, Eleni A. Kyza, Claus Lamm, Anthony Lantian, Aleksandra Lazic, Oscar Lecuona, Jean-Baptiste Legal, Zoe Leviston, Neil Levy, Amanda M. Lindkvist, Gregoire Lits, Andreas Loeschel, Alberto Lopez-Ortega, Carlos Lopez-Villavicencio, Nigel Mantou Lou, Chloe H. Lucas, Kristin Lunz-Trujillo, Mathew D. Marques, Sabrina J. Mayer, Ryan McKay, Hugo Mercier, Julia Metag, Taciano L. Milfont, Joanne M. Miller, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy Monge-Rodriguez, Matt Motta, Iryna Mudra, Zarja Mursic, Jennifer Namutebi, Eryn J. Newman, Jonas P. Nitschke, Ntui-Njock Vincent Ntui, Daniel Nwogwugwu, Thomas Ostermann, Tobias Otterbring, Jaime Palmer-Hague, Myrto Pantazi, Philip Parnamets, Paolo Parra Saiani, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Michal Parzuchowski, Yuri G. Pavlov, Adam R. Pearson, Myron A. Penner, Charlotte R. Pennington, Katerina Petkanopoulou, Marija M. Petrovic, Jan Pfaender, Dinara Pisareva, Adam Ploszaj, Karolina Poliakova, Ekaterina Pronizius, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Diwa Malaya A. Quinones, Pekka Raesaenen, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Felix G. Rebitschek, Cintia Refojo Seronero, Gabriel Rego, James P. Reynolds, Joseph Roche, Simone Roedder, Jan Philipp Roeer, Robert M. Ross, Isabelle Ruin, Osvaldo Santos, Ricardo R. Santos, Philipp Schmid, Stefan Schulreich, Bermond Scoggins, Amena Sharaf, Justin Sheria Nfundiko, Emily Shuckburgh, Johan Six, Nevin Solak, Leonhard Spaeth, Bram Spruyt, Olivier Standaert, Samantha K. Stanley, Gert Storms, Noel Strahm, Stylianos Syropoulos, Barnabas Szaszi, Ewa Szumowska, Mikihito Tanaka, Claudia Teran-Escobar, Boryana Todorova, Abdoul Kafid Toko, Renata Tokrri, Daniel Toribio-Florez, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Tyrala, Ozden Melis Ulug, Ijeoma Chinwe Uzoma, Jochem van Noord, Christiana Varda, Steven Verheyen, Iris Vilares, Madalina Vlasceanu, Andreas von Bubnoff, Iain Walker, Izabela Warwas, Marcel Weber, Tim Weninger, Mareike Westfal, Florian Wintterlin, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Ziqian Xia, Jinliang Xie, Ewa Zegler-Poleska, Amber Zenklusen, Rolf A. Zwaan (2025) Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset Scientific Data, Vol. 12, Article 114 (Article in journal)

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Maria Börjesson, Stef Proost (2025) Costs and benefits of e-roads versus battery trucks: Uncertainty and coordination Resources and Energy Economics, Vol. 82, Article 101492 (Article in journal)

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Christoffer Wadström, Axel Hedström (2025) Assessing the quantile dependence and interconnectedness of electricity utilisation across Swedish industrial sectors Energy, Vol. 320, Article 135196 (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.

Flagpoles with flags and a building in the background

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.

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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

Carl Berry

Mohammad Rakib Bhuiyan

Associate Professor, Docent

Senior Associate Professor

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

Make the world wiser with decision-making research

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

SEK 35 million for research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Research

Transport Economics and Policy

JEDI-lab

Applied Microeconomics

Publications

2025

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)

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