Welcome to Richard Friberg's Homepage

I am a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, holding a professorship named in honor of Jacob Wallenberg (1892-1980). My research focuses on imperfectly competitive markets (Industrial Organization) with an emphasis on investigating responses by firms to uncertainty and various risks. I teach microeconomics at the undergraduate level and Industrial Organization at the PhD level. 
I am also affiliated (Professor II) with NHH in Bergen and a member of the Prize Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. A CV is available here and see below for links to research and my microeconomics textbook.

Links to published research and textbooks


Microeconomics: An Open Introduction

I'm writing a textbook suited for introductory or intermediate level courses in microeconomics. Contract is signed with Routledge and the plan is that it will be available both as a print version for purchase fall of 2025 and an as open source pdf that will be freely available (CC BY). A key feature is that many of the figures and tables contain links to explanatory step-by-step Youtube recordings. The current version of the book is available by clicking the header above.

Some recent research

"Have We Got News For You: Firm-level Evidence on the Optimal Choice of Expected Capacity Utilization", with N. Amberg and C. Syverson, 2025, NBER WP 33400.

"Corporate responses to stock price fragility", with K.W. Hankins and I. Goldstein, 2024, Journal of Financial Economics

"The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: Results from a natural experiment", with E. Halseth, F. Steen and S. Ulsaker, 2024, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

"A Knight for the modern age -- Some reflections inspired by Amar Bhidé's "Uncertainty and Enterprise", 2025, Critical Review: A journal of politics and society

"Customer lifetime value applied to mobile apps", with A. Enache and M. Wiklander, 2025, Information Economics and Policy.

"Assessing the Global Impact of Transit Countries in a Gravity Model", with M. Milone and K. Tinn, R&R Scandinavian Journal of Economics

"Menu Costs and Asymmetric Price Adjustment", with T. Ellingsen and J. Hassler, R&R, International Journal of Industrial Organization

"Cross-border Shopping of Alcohol - What is the Effect on Tax Revenue and Sales and Which Products Are Most Affected?", with F. Steen and S. Ulsaker, R&R, Review of International Economics.

"Algoritmisk prissättning på drivmedelsmarknader– en litteraturöversikt och analys av svenska förhållanden"(In Swedish - algorithmic pricing on markets for fuel - a literature review and analysis of use in Sweden), Konkurrensverket (Swedish Competition Authority), 2024, Underlagsrapport till Rapport 2024:7, translated version here.

"Media attention and price competition: Evidence from Norwegian grocery retailing", with Ö Foros, H.J. Kind, G. Shaffer and F. Steen.

 

For contact details, see my SSE homepage

Last updated: April 2025.