Financial Market Research

The purpose of the Financial Market Research programme is to strengthen the international competitiveness of Swedish financial market research and its relevance to public and private actors in the financial sector.

The aims of the programme are to:

• Establish internationally competitive research milieus which can attract world-leading competence and form national competence centres.
• Strengthen the interaction between researchers and public and private financial market actors so as to promote growth and policy development within the area.
• Enhance the financial sector’s supply of superior competence, qualitatively and quantitatively.

During 2010, two calls were held under the Financial Market Research programme. In accordance with VINNOVA’s government mandate, the lion’s share of the allocated budget goes towards funding three research centres which are believed to strengthen the international position of Swedish financial market research. The other call was “Industrial PhD students in the financial sector”.