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Awards for best doctoral theses

The Research Education Council at LUSEM annually awards the best doctoral thesis of the year.

All links to dissertations lead to the Lund University Research Portal.

2023

Vinzent Ostermeyer, Department of Economic History
“Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institutions, Trade, and Technology during Swedish Industrialization”

2022

Nicolai Baumert, Department of Economic History
For God’s Sake: The Work and Long-Term Impact of Christian Missionaries in Cameroon 1844–2018

2021

Wenjun Wen, Department of Business Administration
Rethinking Accounting Professionalisation in China: A Study of the Development of the Chinese Public Accounting Profession since the “Reform and Opening-up”

2020

Yana Petrova, Department of Economics
Essays on Panel Data with Multidimensional Unobserved Heterogeneity

2019

Fredrik Tesch Morawetz, Department of Business Law
Avbrutna upphandlingar: Ansvar i gränslandet mellan privat och offentlig rätt (in Swedish)

2018

Jörgen Kratz, Department of Economics
Essays on Matching

2017

Anna Tegunimataka, Department of Economic History
Trajectories of Integration: Naturalization, Intermarriage and Education in Denmark, 1980–2015

2016

Milda Norkute, Department of Economics
A Factor Analytical Approach to Dynamic Panel Data Models

2015

Björn Eriksson, Department of Economic History
Dynamic Decades: A micro perspective on late nineteenth century Sweden

2014

Albin Erlanson, Department of Economics
Essays on Mechanism Design

2013

Luciana Quaranta, Department of Economic History
Scarred for Life. How conditions in early life affect socioeconomic status, reproduction and mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813–1968

2012

Elin Smith, Department of Business Administration
Corporate governance and entrepreneurship at the organisational level in a frame of property rights

2011

Alexander Reffgen, Department of Economics
Essays on Strategy-proof Social Choice