Webinar: War in Ukraine—what is the West doing?

Join this webinar on March 7 and listen to Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), discuss the economic issues linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Start time: 2022-03-07 at 17:00

End time: 2022-03-07 at 18:00

Location: Online (Zoom)

Background photo was downloaded from Pexels.com. Used the keyword "money". Photo of Torbjörn is a modified screen-shot image from Ekonomibyrån "Kursen i kristider".

There are no winners in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is already suffering from the Russian bombardment, while Russia is feeling the consequences of the sanctions on its economy even before they have been decided by the West. But why are sanctions taking so long? Who is hesitating and why? What will the effects be?

Many answers are linked to economic issues and Torbjörn will provide some thinking on these and other issues in this webinar.

The webinar will be streamed on Zoom at 17:00 CET. Register here.

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Speaker: Torbjörn Becker

Torbjörn Becker has been the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden since 2006 and is a board member of several economics research institutes in Eastern Europe. Prior to this, he worked for nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his work focused on international macro, economic crises and issues related to the international financial system. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published in top academic journals and has contributed to several books and policy reports focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe.

Moderator: Jesper Roine

Jesper Roine is Associate Professor and deputy director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). His research focuses on Income and wealth inequality, Political Economy, Public Economics and Economic development.