Production Economics (PEK)

The division of Production Economics is part of the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out education and research connected to the optimal use of productive resources within manufacturing or optimal financial decisions.

Education in Production Economics

The majority of the undergraduate courses are given in the engineering programs Industrial Engineering and Management and Mechanical Engineering, and in the international master's programme Industrial Engineering and Management. We offer a number of basic courses in for example production economics, economic analysis and corporate finance. The division is also responsible for two master profiles, operations management and finance, which in total have more than ten courses on advanced level. In addition to this, we supervise and examine a number of master theses every year.

Research in Production Economics

Production Economics is an interdisciplinary engineering subject, which covers management of resources within various business types. The research at the division is focused on the problems in the cross-section between management and engineering, which results in research that applies mathematical methods from engineering science to management problems. The research covers problems at both a strategic, a tactical and an operational level.

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2026

Eva-Lena Eriksson, Helene Lidestam, Lena Winslott Hiselius (2026) Staggered school start times for reducing peak travel demand: A case study of implementation processes and stakeholder impacts Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Vol. 39, Article 102182 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2026.102182
Robert W Grubbström (2026) Note on abundance or scarcity for the Wicksellian production function, or, When does an AC-curve become U-shaped? International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 301, Article 110145 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110145
Min Guo, Hing Kai Chan, Ou Tang, Xiang T. R. Kong, Dimple R. Thadani (2026) Purchase or accept sharing? Incentivising-sharing-enabled placement strategy on a reusable transport item rental platform European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 334, p. 810-826 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2026.02.022
Taras Bodnar, Nestor Parolya (2026) Reviving pseudo-inverses: Asymptotic properties of large dimensional Moore-Penrose and ridge-type inverses with applications Annals of Statistics, Vol. 54, p. 1053-1079 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1214/25-AOS2602
Nicola Loperfido, Haruhiko Ogasawara, Taras Bodnar (2026) Dimension reduction in multivariate analysis Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 214, Article 105549 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2025.105549

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