The Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics is Sweden’s national research center in financial economics. It provides the infrastructure and operates on world-class level to ensure financial research and development of highest quality. The center serves as an independent platform where academia, private and public financial sector can exchange knowledge, foster new ideas and gain access to a global network of the most prominent researchers in finance. The Swedish House of Finance is an equally private and government funded, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. It hosts approximately 70 researchers, consisting of permanent and affiliated professors as well as PhD students.