The Hult Prize Foundation recently announced that a team from the Stockholm School of Economics has advanced to the regional finals of the sixth annual Hult Prize Challenge, a competition in which...

The Swedish government has appointed Martina Björkman Nyqvist, professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and Executive Director of Misum, as a new member of the board of Sida. She...

Welcome to a research seminar with Professor Douglas Massey, Princeton University! It will take place on March 14th at 13.00-14.30 in the Terrace Room, Holländargatan 32, 8th floor. The theme of the...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown restrictions have amplified the academic and policy interest in the causes and consequences of domestic violence. With this in mind, the FREE Network...

SITE has published a policy brief that covers a discussion on how to reduce extreme poverty by incentivizing private aid and private investment in developing countries and secure development finance...

In this brief, we report on the FREE network webinar on the state of vaccinations and the challenges ahead for opening up economies while containing the pandemic, held on June 22, 2021.

Professor Tore Ellingsen held a much appreciated speech yesterday to Professor Deaton, the laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

A new study examining low-performing schools in Sweden challenges universal solutions and highlights the importance of tailored approaches. The study identifies three main pathways to school...

The total fertility rates differ substantially across high-income countries. In some countries, the total fertility rate is as low as 1.3, and factors behind such low levels are not well understood....

Interview with Michael Halling, Director of the Sustainable Finance Initiative at Misum, on how key features of dealing with market risk can be related to the COVID-19 crisis – and why it differs...