The Swedish House of Finance
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 45 000 000 |
| Project duration | January 2018 - December 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The Swedish House of Finance is a Project initiated in 2011 by the Swedish government (through Vinnova), the Stockholm School of Economics, Government (via Vinnova), and companies in the Swedish financial sector. The overall goal is to create a financial research center that is competitive on the highest international level. The center is funded by Vinnova and companies from the Swedish financial sector.
Expected results and effects
SHoF has created a national research infrastructure that has strengthend Swedish financial research in several respects. This in turn has made it easier for Swedish universities to recruit promising international researchers. Based on University Texas Dallas´s top 100 research ranking the SHoF ranks third in Europe´s and 40th among the world´s financial institution in terms of the number of publications in the three best financial journals between 2012-2020. This can be compared to being twelfth in Europe and outside the world´s top 100 ranking when the SHoF was started in 2012.
Planned approach and implementation
The fundamental concept behind this project is: 1) To strengthen financial research in Sweden 2) obtain benefits of scale that enable future expansion, 3) share positive external effects with the private, public, and academic sectors in Sweden. We have achieved this through a common physical research infrastructure, a national center for financial data, a doctoral program available to all doctoral students in Sweden, a publication incentive program for our partner universities, a program for research interaction: guest researchers, industry/academic seminars and conferences.