Economics (NEK)

The Division of Economics is part of the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out education and research within the field of economics. Economics is a science that covers a wide range of different financial aspects and studies the management of resources.

News

Portrait of Daniel Västfjäll and Gustav Tinghög

Make the world wiser with decision-making research

By understanding how decisions are shaped, we can create changes that make a real difference, e.g. for the climate and in healthcare. Gustav Tinghög and Daniel Västfjäll seek new knowledge on human behaviour.

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Michael Cocozza invests heavily in knowledge with lasting impact

Together with his wife Catharina Högbom, Michael Cocozza has made two extensive donations to – one in paediatric medicine, one supporting research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He wants to build something that lasts.

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AI can boost financial decision making

Do you have limited financial knowledge, or prefer not to think about financial issues? Then there is great potential that AI can help, according to LiU researcher Kinga Barrafrem.

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Research

Within the subject we look at, for example, how individuals make both rational and non-rational economic decisions. Economics is both a social and a behavioural science that uses mainly quantitative methods and experiments to study people, companies, organisations, politics, the public sector, the economy, risk-taking, environmental problems, and poverty.

Research in behavioural economics and neuroeconomics dominates at the division. Examples of issues being studied are the extent to which individuals under different conditions allow intuition, feeling or the rational mind to control economic decisions and risk-taking. Methods such as laboratory experiments and magnetic resonance images of the brain are widely combined and applied. The division encompasses researchers with a background in economics, psychology and neuroscience.

Research into discrimination in the labour market, migration, energy and environmental economics, financial economics, macroeconomics, institutional economics, international trade and transport economy is also carried out at the division.

Publications

2026

Pongsak Luangaram, Yuthana Sethapramote, Kannika Thampanishvong, Gazi Salah Uddin (2026) International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 106, Article 104976 (Article in journal)
M. Pietrzak, B. Huhta, A. Yngve, E. Gauffin, A. Löfberg, L. Östman, Emil Persson, L. Leggio, A.J. Capusan, Gustav Tinghög, M. Heilig (2026) Neuroscience Applied, Vol. 5, p. 106873-106873, Article 106873 (Article in journal)
Yunchao Hu, Gang-Jin Wang, Wenyu Gao, Guibin Lu, Gazi Salah Uddin (2026) Research In International Business and Finance, Vol. 84, Article 103336 (Article in journal)
Mohammad Rakib Uddin Bhuiyan (2026)
Mohammad Rakib Uddin Bhuiyan, Anupam Dutta, Ali Ahmed, Gazi Salah Uddin (2026) Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, Vol. 12, Article 100708 (Article in journal)

Education

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Address

Visiting Address

Division of Economics
Hans Meijers väg
A Building, entrance 19
Campus Valla
Linköping, Sweden

Postal Address

Department of Management and Engineering
Division of Economics
SE-581 83 Linköping
Sweden

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