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Selective attention and the importance of types for information campaigns

27 January 2021
Working paper: Can we improve the potential for information to induce individual climate-change curbing action by focusing on individual types? In this paper Maria Perrotta Berlin, Assistant Professor at SITE, and her co-author try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning.

Financial Contracts as Coordination Device

13 June 2019
Working paper: This paper studies the use of financial contracts as bid-coordinating device in multi-unit uniform price auctions.

SITE Energy Talks – Highlights and Presentations

16 October 2018
This year’s SITE Energy Talks – Energy Demand Management: Insights from Behavioral Economics, was devoted to discussing how consumers make energy efficiency decisions and what incentives can be used to change consumer behaviour.

From abnormal to normal—Two tales of growth from 25 years of transition

29 November 2017
By Torbjörn Becker and Anders Olofsgård, SITE Working Paper

Thomas Sterner gives a presentation at SITE Energy talks

26 October 2017
Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg, gave a presentation on technological development, geopolitical and environmental issues in our energy future at SITE Energy Talks, concerning the rapidly increasing level of carbon content, new technological development, the impact of low oil prices and the most promising ways to stop emissions.

Russia’s Oil Dependence and the EU

10 August 2016
By Torbjörn Becker, SITE Working Paper

SITE Energy Day presentations and conference highlights

16 November 2015
On November 5 Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) hosted 9th Energy Day - Economic Impacts of Oil Price Fluctuations. Conference presentations on the volatility of oil price forecasts, oil price fluctuations, new climate economy and other topics have been published for everyone interested in the energy field.

EU-Russia Gas Relationship at a Crossroads

11 September 2013
by Chloé Le Coq and Elena Paltseva, forthcoming as a chapter in "Russian Energy and Security up to 2030", edited by Susanne Oxenstierna and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Roothledge

Petro Rents, Political Institutions, and Hidden Wealth: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts

19 August 2013
by Elena Paltseva (with Jørgen Juel Andersen, Niels Johannesen, and David Dreyer Lassen), published in the Journal of the European Economic Association

The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal

19 December 2012
by Jesper Roine (with A. Boschini, and Jan Pettersson), published in the World Development