Mikael Bask

Mikael Bask is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (1998, Umeå University) and has been active in both academic and applied economic research.

• Current position since 2010: Senior Lecturer, Uppsala University
• Previous academic appointments at Umeå University, University of Helsinki, Bank of Finland, Hanken School of Economics, and Åbo Akademi University
• Extended research visits at University of Wisconsin–Madison, Stanford University

His research spans financial economics, monetary policy, exchange rate dynamics, and computational social science, with notable work on the Matthew effect in life-course analysis and technical trading impacts on currency markets.

• Key research areas: Inequality, Financial Economics, Monetary Policy, Exchange Rates, Computational Modeling
• Recent articles focus on market sentiment, population-scale networks, and monetary policy uncertainty

Dr. Bask has supervised numerous Ph.D. students to completion and has received multiple research grants from foundations like Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, Siamon Foundation, and Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation.

He has extensive teaching experience across macroeconomics, financial economics, and computational social science at all academic levels, including Ph.D. courses. His administrative roles include Director of Graduate Studies at Uppsala University and board memberships in academic foundations.