Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies

The Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies (Knut Wicksells centrum för finansvetenskap) has received funding from VINNOVA to establish a centre for finance at the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM).

The basic goal of the Wicksell Centre is to conduct high-quality research in the finance area, and to engage in mutually beneficial collaboration with practitioners. In more specific terms the activities focus on:

  • attaining high quality in research;
  • asserting the relevance of its activities in interaction with practitioners;
  • building an attractive environment for research and outreach in order to recruit new researchers – on permanent, time-limited and visiting basis – nationally and internationally.

The Wicksell Centre conduct multidisciplinary research and education, drawing from the resources of one of Scandinavia’s biggest universities, exploiting links to several departments and institutions. Research at the Centre is organised in three thematic platforms:

The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm is an important part of the Centre. While LUSEM has broad strengths in financial research, IFN has strong competences and networks in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovation and growth. Together, these strengths make the Knut Wicksell Centre of Financial Studies well equipped to deal with current and future challenges within the multidisciplinary field of finance.

News and events

Karolina Ekholm, Deputy Governor of the Swedish Riksbank, visited Knut Wicksell Center on April 5th, 2013.

During her visit, she met with researchers at the Center and students at Lund University. She was also the feature speaker at the Wicksell seminar about Swedish monetary policy. The seminar was attended by about 60 people, including representatives from several Center partner banks and the media.

Ola Bengtsson, director of the Center, moderated a Q&A session that followed immediately after Katarina Ekholm’s presentation.

On March 7 2013 the annual award for best quarterly report was announced at a seminar in Stockholm, organized by Aktiespararna and the financial advisory firm Kanton. The event also featured a panel debate on the topic ‘Should quarterly financial reports for listed firms in Sweden be replace by semiannual reports?’. Håkan Jankensgård from Lund University was one of the participants in the panel, and also presented his recent research on the value effects of financial disclosure (“ An Empirical Test of the Optimal Disclosure Hypothesis", Knut Wicksell Working Paper Series No 2012/6), which shows that that higher levels of financial disclosure in quarterly and annual reports impact firm value differently

The first Policy Paper is published within the Knut Wicksell Policy Papers Series.

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The first papers are published within the Knut Wicksell Working Paper Series.

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Contact

Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies

Phone: +46 46 222 0000
E-mail: kwc@ehl.lu.se