There is a surge of papers in economics that integrate economic models with the canonical epidemiological SIR model. Two recent papers show that incorporating individual decision-making alters key...

NEW PAPER PUBLISHED: Misum researcher Erik Wetter is part of the Flowminder team commissioned by the UN Foundation to develop and evaluate new geospatial data sources and computational methods. This...

What has been going on in the Russian economy under President Putin? And what may the future look like given the external environment, internal challenges and reform processes? New book "The Russian...

The board of the SSE Institute for Research is honoured to appoint Peter Wallenberg Jr as Research Promoter of the Year and the 2017 Recipient of the SIR Research Award.

“The Soviet millennial kingdom lasted for twenty years”. It’s been a hundred years since the October Revolution in 1917, a revolution that brought an almost religious faith in a bright future, with...

Torbjörn Becker has contributed an article in Swedish on the Russian economy in Svenska Dagbladets blogg ‘Säkerhetsrådet’.

Erik Wetter, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), is currently developing national mobility estimates for Nepal through a non-profit organization in an effort to assist...

It is with great sadness we receive the news that artist Lars Arrhenius has passed away. We were to inaugurate his video artwork "Handels for Future!" this spring.

Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, the West has been contemplating sanctions on Russian oil and gas imports. For the EU, this plan poses a significant challenge due to the long-existing...

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...