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...

The concern of Russian gas supply disruption and its implications has never been as serious. Chloé Le Coq, Professor of Economics at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and a Research...

COVID-19 policy may not be a choice between the two.

As last year Art Initiative is offering bachelor students at SSE a course in art, aesthetics and business. In "Art and Luxury" artists, art institutions, companies and researchers will engage students...

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,...

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...

Mattia Bianchi has been appointed Professor of Business Administration, especially Innovation Management by the Board of Directors of the Stockholm School of Economics.