Özge Öner

PhD in Economics

Özge has defended her PhD in Economics in 2014 with a focus on Retail Geography, and she also holds a MSc in Economics with a focus on Creative Industries. Özge has been involved in several projects related to the geography of Swedish Retail and Hospitality sectors.
Her current research covers a wide range of topics within Urban and Regional Economics: non-market interactions, ethnic enclaves and segregation, social capital, applied models of human capital, location of entrepreneurship, labor mobility, urban amenities, as well as retail and hospitality geography.
She is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Institutet för Näringslivsforsknin in Stockholm (Research Institute of Industrial Economics), and as an Assitant Professor at Jönköping International Business School.