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 The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along wit ...

Education

Friberg completed a MSc. in Business and Economics (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) at the

(SSE). His dissertation was titled ''Prices, profits and exchange rate uncertainty''. Friberg's doctoral advisor was

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. He was a

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from August 1994 to Jun 1995 at the

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. He was a

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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 (

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) 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 ''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics'' was established as the ''Ekonomisk Tidskrift'' (in Swedish) in 1899 by David Davidson. It became ''The Swedish Journal of Economics'' in 1965 (in English) and then ''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics' ...

''.

Personal life

Since 1997 Friberg has been married to

Magdalena Andersson Eva Magdalena Andersson (born 23 January 1967) is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since October 2022 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021. She has served as a Member of the R ...

, the

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from 2021 to 2022; they have two children. He and his wife are avid

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people; they often go

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and mountaineering.

Selected works

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* , - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Friberg, Richard Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Swedish economists Stockholm School of Economics alumni Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics Spouses of prime ministers of Sweden 1967 births