Since the 1980s, Denmark has gone from being one of Europe’s economically weakest countries to having some of the world’s strongest external and public finances. A new book by Per Callesen, a researcher at the Department of Economics and former governor of Danmarks Nationalbank, examines how things could go so wrong and why the turnaround  succeeded.

Why do some upper secondary graduates choose a long degree with a steep career trajectory, while others pick something shorter and safer? A new international study led by researchers at CEBI shows that patience and appetite for risk shape young people's choice of higher education almost as strongly as their school grades.