After having been relatively mildly affected in the first wave, Eastern Europe is currently in the midst of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with much higher levels of infected and dead...

Founder of Tough Viking and Le Pacte and 35th Swede ever to summit Mount Everest

At SSE research center SITE, the war in Ukraine has not just hit close to home for research assistant Hanna Anisimova. It is literally devastating her hometown of Donetsk and threatening the lives of...

In Ernst Billgren’s symbolically charged work comprised of ceramics, painting, and mosaic, we face a depicted swan. With its dark, blue beak, it resembles the trumpeter swan, a species whose feathers...

Avsked was part of Lars Nilsson´s exhibition Ruiner (Ruins) at the Stockholm gallery Milliken in 2009. The artwork is an interpretation of the book The road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), that Lars...

The sculpture Banca Rotta (Switzerland, 17th Century, oak) by artist duo Goldin + Senneby in the SSE library is a wooden table – originally used for trading bonds and moneylending –sawn in half.

The Stockholm School of Economics has removed the Swedish SAT (Högskoleprovet) requirement for national applicants to our bachelor programs. This has raised many questions. President Lars Strannegård...

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...

Swedish companies are expected to create innovation driven, profitable and sustainable business in global competition. In recent years, these eligibility requirements have been combined with demands...

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...