The World Bank has published a new book on “Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies”, edited by Alistair Dieppe, with a database covering 164 countries over 1980-2018. The book analyses the...

Statistics are often registered with delay and Swedish COVID-19 deaths are reported with up to 14 days of lag. Death statistics therefore always appear to be on a positive trend. In a new paper,...

To gain a rapid estimate of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the Swedish economy and labour market, the Riksbank has expanded its collection and compilation of high-frequency data, known as...

In a new paper, network members Niko Jaakkola and Daniel Spiro with co-authors analyse policies that would jointly address the coronavirus economic crisis and the climate crisis.

A new working paper from Marta Giagheddu and Andrea Papetti illustrates the pros and cons of different combinations of economic shutdown and targeted social distancing with a special focus on the...

In a new peer reviewed study in Health Affairs, Eric Reinhart and Daniel Chen show that being temporarily jailed (a.k.a. jail cycling) is correlated with Covid-19 infection

A new working paper by network member Flavio Toxvaerd, together with Robert Rowthorn considers a SIR model of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 or swine flu, in which costly treatment or...

How effective are restrictions on geographic mobility in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Findings

Few topics have received as much interest as leadership. A great deal of this interest is positive and useful, but there is also very much wishful thinking, trend-following and sometimes even nonsense...