How are we affected by repeatedly hearing that we live in one of the world’s happiest countries? A new study from the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics...

The Stockholm School of Economics is receiving a total of SEK 80 million in new funding for research on and education in sustainability. The initiative is backed by Mistra and the Kamprad Family...

A new study, recently published in the Journal of Management, reveals the remarkable ability of family firms to not just survive but thrive through multiple adversities. By focusing on a century-old...

New research published in the Journal of Corporate Finance examines the impact of MiFID II's unbundling of research and execution costs on mutual fund investors, finding that investors did not...

The Stockholm School of Economics is proud to announce the establishment of a new Chair in Finance, which has been awarded to Professor Bo Becker, one of Sweden’s most renowned researchers in the...

In the annual thesis competition organized by the Swedish Competition Authority, students from the Department of Economics at SSE were recognized for their work. The first prize in the economics...

This brief provides an overview of the discussion on the relative merits of grants and loans in the literature on foreign aid, including a short section on debt relief initiatives. These claims are...

Policymakers in Europe are currently faced with the difficult task of reducing our reliance on Russian oil and gas without worsening the situation for firms and households that are struggling with...

Carbon pricing has long been the recommended tool of economists for mitigating climate change. In 2019, over 5000 economists, including 28 Nobel Laureate Economists, co-signed statements urging US...

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs organised the annual SITE Development Day conference on the topic of development finance. The conference...