by Erik Meyersson (with P. Aghion and P. Howitt), published as chapter in the book of Aghion and Howitt's "The Economics of Growth", MIT Press

On the 27th of May, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Knowledge for Change Program of the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the...

Sweden's strategy to deal with Covid-19 has been intensively debated both in Sweden and internationally during the spring. As the second wave of Covid-19 hit Sweden during the fall, the debate about...

Examine photos from the Public Knowledge Event 'Global Development and the Middle-Income Trap' on May 27th.

The 'Business Models and Innovation' platform explores questions around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), “stakeholder capitalism”, innovations for sustainability and entrepreneurship, i. e....

Chile is one of several national contexts in which early stage entrepreneurial networking will be explored. In beginning of November, two of the team members, Sara Värlander and Ingela Sölvell...

Mathematical models are used to approximate epidemic outbreaks and try to predict their outcomes. In this popular Youtube lecture, Tom Britton, Professor in Mathematical Statistics and Dean of...

There is a surge of papers in economics that integrate economic models with the canonical epidemiological SIR model. Two recent papers show that incorporating individual decision-making alters key...

The rapid growth of the financial system and its dominance over the non-financial economy has given rise to ample re-regulation on a national and supernational level, across the globe. This...