On April 24, the House of Innovation and Stockholm Music Week co-hosted “The Future of Music,” bringing together music executives, artists, technology leaders, researchers, and policymakers to examine...

by Marieke Huysentruyt (with C.B. Barrett and J.G. McPeak), published in the Economica

Ena hälften av årets Ekonomipris till Nobels minne går till William Nordhaus som tagit in klimatförändringarna i sina ekonomiska modeller. Men hans ekonomiska modeller har både prisats och...

A new working paper by Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Werning and Michael Whinston study optimal lockdown policy in the framework of a standard SIR epidemic model with multiple risk groups...

Kenth Skogsvik has together with SSE colleagues Peter Jennergen, Henrik Andersson, Stina Skogsvik and Håkan Thorsell received a research grant of 2,5 MSEK from Handelsbanken’s research foundations.

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...

Policy brief: A common presumption in economics is that a carbon tax is regressive – that the tax disproportionately burdens low-income households. However, this presumption originates from early...

New policy brief by Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, provides an analysis on the depth of Russia’s oil dependence.

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...

Most reports on the labor-market effects of the first wave of COVID-19 have pointed to women, low-skilled workers and other vulnerable groups being more affected. Research on the topic shows a more...