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Highlights from Development Day 2020: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe
21 December 2020
After having been relatively mildly affected in the first wave, Eastern Europe is currently in the midst of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with much higher levels of infected and dead compared to the spring. This health crisis not only has economic consequences, but also has contributed to political instability in parts of the region. Learn more on the presentations and discussions held at the SITE Development Day conference 2020!
Martina Björkman Nyqvist winner of SSE Corporate Partners' Research Award 2020
17 December 2020
Associate Professor Martina Björkman Nyqvist has been awarded the SSE Corporate Partner Research Award 2020 for her groundbreaking work in development economics. Marie Ehrling, Chairman of Securitas, presented the award, which amounts to 100,000 SEK.
Innovation, leadership and purpose in a post-pandemic world
11 December 2020
Everyone is currently trying to picture what the future will look like after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, how markets will be shaped, and how products and services will shift to address structural changes in organizations and society at large. However, the future we are facing is uncertain, disproportioned and evolving quickly – we don’t really know, nor can predict, what will happen.
Third year ART project presentations (Day 2)
02 December 2020
During the fall, the third year Retail Management students have been working with projects for our ten Retail Club companies.
Highlights from the webinar: Economic reforms of fragile states - Perspectives from Somalia
30 November 2020
Fragile states are particularly vulnerable to adverse economic shocks and in need of international support. Through constructive collaboration with international partners, however, fragile state governments can successfully pursue ambitious reform agendas for the short and long run. SITE and MISUM (Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets) invited the Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Dr. Abdirahman Dualeh Beileh, and the Swedish ambassador to Somalia, Staffan Tillander, to discuss the role of international partnership in the recent development of economic reforms in Somalia.
Political Man on Horseback Coups and Development
05 April 2016
by Erik Meyersson, Working paper
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
The Private Provision of Excludable Public Goods: An Inefficiency Result
22 December 2012
by Elena Paltseva (with Tore Ellingsen), published in the Journal of Public Economics
Religion, Politics, and Development - Essays in Development Economics and Political Economics
31 May 2010
by Erik Meyersson, Doctoral Thesis in Economics at the Stockholm University, Sweden
Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873-2006
01 March 2009
by Jesper Roine (with D. Waldenström), published in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics