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

Michak Rubaszek, Karol Szafranek, Gazi Salah Uddin (2025) Intraday volatility connectedness on the forex market: the role of uncertainty Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 157, Article 103398 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Philip Igeland, Mona El Yadini, Gazi Salah Uddin, Muhammad Yahya, Ali Ahmed, Axel Hedström (2025) The Relationship Between Energy Metal Price Volatility and Clean Energy Assets International journal of finance and economics (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Gour Gobinda Goswami, Muhammad Yahya, Mahnaz Aftabi Atique, Gazi Salah Uddin (2025) Impact of financial and energy market uncertainties on ASEAN-5 markets Eurasian Economic Review (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anh H. Le, Donghyun Park, John Beirne, Gazi Salah Uddin (2025) How does disaster risk impact fiscal sustainability and inequality? Economic Modelling, Vol. 151, Article 107220 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mikael Svensson, Jonathan Siverskog, Naimi Johansson, Martin Henriksson (2025) Reproducibility of published model-based cancer drug cost-effectiveness analyses: a study protocol for a cross-sectional analysis BMJ Open, Vol. 15, Article e096719 (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

Organisation