Richard Friberg Explained

Richard Friberg
Office:Spouse of the Prime Minister of Sweden
Primeminister:Magdalena Andersson
Term Label:In role
Term Start:30 November 2021
Term End:18 October 2022
Predecessor:Ulla Löfven
Successor:Birgitta Ed
Education:Stockholm School of Economics
Birth Date:5 May 1967
Children:2
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Fields:Economics
Workplaces:Stockholm School of Economics
Thesis Title:Prices, profits and exchange rate uncertainty
Thesis Url:https://ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/hastef/0196.html
Thesis Year:1997
Doctoral Advisor:Robert Feenstra

Richard Friberg (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish economist specializing in industrial organization, international trade, and risk management. He is the Jacob Wallenberg professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.[1]

Education

Friberg completed a MSc. in Business and Economics (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). His dissertation was titled Prices, profits and exchange rate uncertainty. Friberg's doctoral advisor was Robert Feenstra. He was a Fulbright scholar from August 1994 to Jun 1995 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the SSE from 1998 to 2000.

Career

Friberg is an economist specializing in industrial organization, international trade, and risk management. He became an assistant professor at SSE in 2000. Friberg became an associate professor (docent) in 2001 and a full professor in 2008. He was selected as the Jacob Wallenberg professor of economics in 2009.

From 2009 to 2013, Friberg was editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Personal life

Since 1997 Friberg has been married to Magdalena Andersson, the prime minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022; they have two children.[2] [3] He and his wife are avid outdoors people; they often go hiking, kayaking and mountaineering.[4]

Selected works

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff Profile: Friberg, Richard. 2021-11-28. Stockholm School of Economics.
  2. Web site: Magdalena Andersson about the grief after father Göran Andersson . . 15 July 2015 . 17 October 2021 . sv.
  3. Web site: 2021-11-24. Magdalena Andersson går av som statsminister i Sverige. 2021-11-28. Dagsavisen. no.
  4. Web site: Magdalena Andersson: Hidden privacy with her husband and children . california18.com . 18 September 2021 . 23 November 2021.