News about Economy

Patrick Thöni wins Best Paper Doctoral Award

Patrick Thöni receives Swiss Finance Institute Best Paper Doctoral Award for having shed light on asymmetric information and financial taxation affect trading activity and market liquidity in a multi-market setting.

ThinkChina Student Insights: China’s Changing FDI Policy

This article investigates how the policy environment on FDI has been shifting in the past few years, potentially benefitting foreign companies.

New biodiversity report: The value of nature should be included in Danish economic decision making

Denmark is miles away from meeting its agreed targets for nature and biodiversity. To remedy the Danish and global biodiversity crisis effectively, we need to improve how the value of nature is measured to allow…

New professor of sociology to focus on financial markets and new technologies

With the appointment of Christian Borch as professor, the Department of Sociology will gain new expertise in economic and political sociology.

How to see the forest and the trees

PhD student Mar Moure shares learnings and impressions from this year's IUFRO Risk Analysis conference "Socio-ecological conflicts in forest management: risks of (not) adapting?".

ThinkChina Video: Virker den vestlige økonomiske model i Asien?

Se eller gense Jørgen Ørstrøm Møllers forelæsning om den vestlige økonomiske model i den asiatiske kontekst.

ThinkChina Video: New Danish Foreign Investment Screening Regime

Watch or re-watch the ChinaTalks lecture covering what kind of transactions that are now restricted and who will be considered foreigners under the Danish legislation on foreign investment screening.

Large, economic wheels must be turned to make way for green cars

Which economic levers do the politicians have to pull to move people from fossil driven cars to electrified cars? That is the main question for the GREENCAR research team at the Department of Economics.

ThinkChina Student Insights: Luxury Consumption and Identity Creation in the Chinese Middle Class

This Student Insights investigates the complex link between the rising demand in luxury consumption between the Chinese middle class and the influence it has in identity creation.

External podcast: Verden Kalder - Hvem Holder Kina Med?

For bare få måneder siden kaldte Kinas præsident Xi og Ruslands præsident Putin deres venskab for ”grænseløst”, men er venskabet lige så varmt, nu hvor Putin har invaderet Ukraine?

Caroline Bertram admitted to European elite research program

In connection with her PhD project, which examines sustainability considerations in EU trade policy, Caroline Bertram has been selected for the Europaeum Scholars Program.

Survey: Strong consensus among experts for higher CO2 prices

Almost all academic experts recommend higher carbon prices as a way to limit global warming, the first comprehensive global survey on carbon pricing concludes.

The invasion of Ukraine: Sanctions - how do they work?

what exactly is the purpose of economic sanctions, now that the threat of them could not prevent the war? We have asked Jens Ladefoged Mortensen, associate professor at the Department of Political Science.

External podcast: China's Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Has Putin's invasion of Ukraine put China in an uncomfortable situation? ThinkChina general manager, Casper Wichmann, discusses this with Insightview.eu

Jens Ladefoged on the invasion of Ukraine: Sanctions - how do they work?

But what exactly is the purpose of economic sanctions, now that the threat of them could not prevent the war? We have asked Jens Ladefoged Mortensen, associate professor at the Department of Political Science and member…

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. …

Paneldebat Dansk Industri: Kinas nye Norm

Daglig leder af ThinkChina, Casper Wichmann, deltog i en paneldebat hos Dansk Industri om Danmarks fortsatte samarbejde med Kina.

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…

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.