Richard Friberg – författare

A comprehensive framework for assessing strategies for managing risk and uncertainty, integrating theory and practice and synthesizing insights from many fields.

This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision theory, management, and other fields, the book provides a set of tools and a way of thinking that determines the relative merits of different strategies. It takes as its premise that we make better decisions if we use the whole toolkit of economics and related fields to inform our decision making.

The text explores the distinction between risk and uncertainty and covers standard models of decision making under risk as well as more recent work on decision making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on strategic interaction. It also examines the implications of incomplete markets for managing under uncertainty. It presents four core strategies: a benchmark strategy (proceeding as if risk and uncertainty were low), a financial hedging strategy (valuable if there is much risk), an operational hedging strategy (valuable for conditions of much uncertainty), and a flexible strategy (valuable if there is much risk and/or uncertainty). The book then examines various aspects of these strategies in greater depth, building on empirical work in several different fields. Topics include price-setting, real options and Monte Carlo techniques, organizational structure, and behavioral biases. Many chapters include exercises and appendixes with additional material. The book can be used in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in risk management, as a guide for researchers, or as a reference for management practitioners.

Digitaliseringen har djupgående effekter på samhället, och inte minst på konkurrensen. I Konjunkturrådets rapport 2021 beskriver och analyserar fyra forskare de ekonomiska mekanismer och de lagar och rättstillämpningar som tillsammans formar samspelet mellan digitalisering och konkurrens. Särskild vikt läggs vid att granska plattformsmarknader och nätverksexternaliteter. De resonerar kring vad utvecklingen innebär för en liten exportorienterad nation som Sverige och vad som kan göra svenska företag bättre rustade att möta framtida utmaningar i den digitala ekonomin.  

SNS Konjunkturråd 2021 består av Sten Nyberg (ordförande), professor i nationalekonomi, Stockholms universitet, Richard Friberg, professor i nationalekonomi, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Björn Lundqvist, docent i juridik, Stockholms universitet, och Robin Teigland, professor i Management of Digitalization, Chalmers tekniska högskola.