News about Economy

Impatient and risk-tolerant people more often become criminals

A new study published in the prestigious journal PNAS confirms the assumption that risk-tolerant, impatient and self-centered people are more likely to commit crimes than risk averse, patient and altruistic people are. …

Researchers will enlighten us about insurance and pensions

With DKK 45 million (€6M) over the next 12 years, the University of Copenhagen has landed a historically large agreement for additional research and educational programming in the insurance and pension field that will…

Healthy shopping peaks in January

Year after year, January is the month when we load our shopping baskets with the healthiest foods, according to new data from the University of Copenhagen. Is it because so many New Year's resolution makers are seeking…

Millions for research into green transition on the roads

The Independent Research Fund Denmark has allocated almost 12 million to the project GREENCAR, which will show the way to a green transformation of the car sector.

The effect of earmarked parental leave must be researched

The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Jakob Egholt Søgaard, assistant professor at the Department of Economics, 4.5 million DKK for a project that will expand our understanding of the interplay between gender norms and…

Prize for best thesis in labour market economics

CEBI PhD Camilla Skovbo Christensen is honoured in the Ministry of Employment for her thesis, ”Retirement Policies and Private Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Reform of the Old-Age Pension Scheme” with co-author…

The gulf between rich and poor is increasing

The economic inequality is decreasing on a global scale, and the gulf between rich and poor is growing fast. This is the conclusion of an international research project with Danish participation.

Companies recruit more female board members through family ties

The introduction of a gender quota in Denmark has increased the number of women on company boards, but it also led to more family driven hiring, a new study finds.

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

With a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the UCPH will study how minerals are irregularly mined in Ghana and end up in technological products, only to return and dumped as e-waste.

Economics of climate change: One per cent makes a world of difference

Frikk Nesje and his colleagues have created international awareness by building bridges in the political debate as to how much we should invest in the climate.

This is how much Danes are willing to pay to protect nature and prevent noise from motorways

Danes are quite willing to pay to prevent noise pollution, protect unique natural areas and avoid animal collisions when it comes to the construction of new motorways. This is the conclusion of a new report by…

Climate report: Home buyers ignore flood risk

Buyers neglect to investigate the risk of flooding until after purchasing new homes according to a new report from the University of Copenhagen. The report also reveals that home prices are only slightly affected by…

Danish companies get new tools for recruiting internationals

With funding from Innovation Fund Denmark, a new project will help small and medium-sized companies recruit and retain international professionals. The Department of Sociology will be leading the research.

Letting nature manage itself may lead to the least costs —but EU subsidies remain an obstacle

Nature management through rewilding can be significantly more cost-effective than by traditional conservation measures. However, EU agricultural subsidies distort competition. This is the conclusion of an economic…

Sapere Aude Grant for research into the connection between religiosity and wealth

Associate Professor Jeanet Sinding Bentzen from the Department of Economics has received the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Sapere Aude grant for talented research leaders.

Behavioural research impacted corona-stricken Rome

Two researchers from the Department of Economics have received a letter of thanks from the Mayor of Rome for their effort saving human lives.

New anthology on cashlessness: Who’s Cashing In?

A new anthology on the cashless society examines the strategies adopted by different people when traditional coins and banknotes rapidly disappear from their daily economic exchanges.

New blog looks at social consequences of a cashless economy

Researchers at the Department of Anthropology have launched a new blog, which discusses the transition to a cashless economy and the impact on the cash-reliant and indebted urban poor.

CEBI research about consumer spending during the COVID-19 lock-down

covered in article in The New York Times and in Die Welt

Upcoming UCPH FOOD professor Serafim Bakalis receives The Hutchison Medal

Serafim Bakalis, who starts on 20 July 2020 as professor in Dairy Product and Technology at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH FOOD), has been awarded The Hutchison Medal for a…

Patient people are wealthier

We document a strong association between patience and wealth inequality by linking experimental data from a large preference-elicitation experiment with administrative wealth records.

How Do House Prices Drive Spending?

House prices and spending move together but little is known about the underlying mechanism linking them. We design a test to discriminate between the housing wealth effect hypothesis and the collateral effect hypothesis…

Claus Thustrup Kreiner is the new Area Director of Public Economics in the CESifo network.

He will be organizing the next Public Economics conference in Münich on 19-21 March 2020

Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation

Inequalities at birth of one generation persist into inequality among the offspring in the next generation: differences in birth weight of parents are associated with differences in school performance of their children.