Policy brief: Some recently discovered money laundering schemes have funnelled large amounts of illegal money from former soviet states through European banks. This note briefly describes the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to a pre-existing threat to global health: the quality of air in cities around the world. Prolonged exposure to air pollution has been found to increase the...

Sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are argued to be the strongest and farthest-reaching imposed on a major power after WWII, more numerous and more comprehensive than all other...

There are great expectations that vaccinations will enable a return to normality from COVID-19. However, there is massive variation in vaccination efforts, vaccine access, and attitudes to vaccination...

Assistant professor Anders Richtnér, PhD Anna Brattström, Professor Johan Frishammar (Luleå University of Technology), dr Jennie Björk and Professor Mats Magnusson (Royal University of Technology).

Why do carbon and fuel taxes trigger political backlash? In a new policy brief, Julius Andersson (researcher at SITE) points to income polarization. As the middle class’s income share shrinks, the tax...

A human- and problem-centric approach to AI-led innovation .

Against the background of fast rising gasoline and diesel prices in 2022, a number of European countries have reduced fuel tax rates, often in the form of temporary “gas tax holidays”. In this policy...

The edtech market was already complicated, and COVID-19 did not make things easier.

Welcome to the sixth version of Handels x Mejan: an annual student curated exhibition with four students or newly graduated students from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (also known as Mejan)...