Hi! I'm Hedda Thorell, a fifth year PhD student at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University. My research interests lie in applied macroeconomics, macro finance and household finance. I am particularly interested in using micro data to understand the macroeconomy, and monetary policy in particular.
I also have experience from different policy institutions; including the International Monetary Fund, the National Institute for Economic Research (NIER) and Sveriges Riksbank. I am also a 2026 Lamfalussy Fellow.
I am on the 2026/2027 Job Market.
You can find my CV here. Feel free to get in touch with me at hedda.thorell@su.se.
News
December 2026: I will present our paper, "The Anatomy of Monetary Stimulus of Durable Goods Demand", at the Workshop Empirical Monetary Economics 2026 (Paris, scheduled), and at the conference The Micro and Macro of Household Consumption-Saving Decisions (Uppsala, scheduled).
November 2026: I will present my paper, "Quantitative Easing: Domestic Rebalancing and Foreign Deleveraging", at the 15th National PhD Workshop in Finance (Stockholm, scheduled).
October 2026: I presented our paper, "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Undermining Central Bank Independence", at the Young Researcher Poster Session at the Conference on Macroeconomic Policy (Gerzensee).
September 2026: I presented my paper, "Quantitative Easing: Domestic Rebalancing and Foreign Deleveraging", at GSE Helsinki (Nordic PhD Seminar Exchange), and at the First Women’s Network Conference (Stockholm).
August 2026: I presented our paper, "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Undermining Central Bank Independence", at the poster session at the Conference on New Challenges in Monetary Economics (Mannheim).
June 2026: I presented our paper, "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Undermining Central Bank Independence", at the Ministry of Finance in Sweden (Finansdepartementet).
May 2026: Together with Gökhan Ider, I received the ECB Lamfalussy Research Fellowship 2026 for our project, “News-Driven Fluctuations and Monetary Policy Transmission.” I also presented my paper, "Quantitative Easing: Domestic Rebalancing and Foreign Deleveraging", at the 6th Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History (Berlin), and our paper, "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Undermining Central Bank Independence", at the 2nd Kiel-CEPR Conference on Monetary Policy - Central Bank Independence in the Spotlight (Berlin). Our article was also covered in VoxEU.
April 2026: I presented my paper, "Quantitative Easing: Domestic Rebalancing and Foreign Deleveraging", at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ENTER Seminar).