Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On March 31, 2026, we welcome Pierre-Louis Vézina to discuss refugee entrepreneurship in Poland after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, examining firm creation, spillovers to domestic business formation, and underlying mechanisms using registry and survey data.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On April 7, 2026, we welcome Jaakko Meriläinen to present new evidence on how elite networks shaped nation-building in 19th-century Finland, tracing the diffusion of nationalist adoption through social ties and its longer-run effects on identity formation and political development.

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AI is changing the rules of the economy - who gets hired, who advances, and whose work is automated or augmented. This one-day conference, hosted by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), convenes researchers and practitioners to examine how AI may widen or narrow gender gaps, and what evidence and policy can do to steer outcomes toward greater equality.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 5, 2026, we welcome Nina Khairova to discuss how misinformation escalates into coordinated propaganda campaigns in digital environments, and what this implies for detecting manipulative information in the context of hybrid warfare. The seminar introduces a framework for AI-based misinformation detection and uses the Russian–Ukrainian war as a case study to illustrate why context-aware approaches are essential.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 12, 2026, we welcome Jan Christoph Steckel to discuss how household electricity price shocks shape democratic attitudes and party support in Germany during the 2022–2023 energy crisis, drawing on evidence from a four-wave panel survey and billing-system–driven variation.

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The 8th edition of the NAERE workshop will be held in Stockholm on June 11-12, 2026. The workshop will be organized by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and hosted at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).