Russia’s real GDP fell by a modest 3 percent in 2020. The question addressed here is how a major oil-exporting country can go through the COVID-19 pandemic with a decline of this magnitude when oil...

Sweden’s outlier position in handling the coronavirus has put the country at the center of global public debate. How did Sweden end up with different policies than other comparable countries? This...

Research should not stay within university walls. A new collaboration between the Center for Philosophies of Markets at the Stockholm School of Economics and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern invites the...

A cooperation agreement between SSE and Sport Campus Sweden (SCS) enable top young athletes to combine their sport career with their studies. This is part of SSE’s ambition to show that it is possible...

What happens when a sport becomes more commercialized and globalized? How does it affect its culture and local communities? These and many other questions were explored when Olof Lundh discussed his...

Studies on previous pandemic episodes find large and persistent effects on the real economy, meaning GDP, consumption and real rates of return.

A new working paper by Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber use a repeated large-scale survey of (representative) households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor...

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...

After many years of negotiations, the EU and Japan have now, in principle, reached an agreement on economic partnership and free trade. EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström presented the agreement when...

This week, the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) gather the coaches and leaders working closest to our country’s top athletes in Limnos, Greece, to participate in a coach forum