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...

Top-tier schools go head-to-head in world’s largest student competition, competing for $1 million in start-up funding to solve President Clinton’s Healthcare Challenge.

The only Swedish Team to contest in this year’s Hult Prize Challenge is competing in the online wildcard round after being named runner Up at the London Regionals in March. 

What shapes social cohesion under extreme pressure - and what sustains resilience during war? On January 19, 2026, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) hosted Ukrainian sociologist...

Inventors don’t just need to borrow ideas—they need to understand where those ideas came from. A new study published in the Journal of Business Research by House of Innovation researcher Holmer Kok...

Since 2003, the Entrepreneurship Forum has recognized emerging talent in academia through its annual Young Researcher Prize, celebrating impactful work in entrepreneurship and small business research....

In a globalized world, competition between medicine approval agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Europe’s European Medicines Agency (EMA) significantly impacts the...

I have a Ph.D. in History from Växjö University (2005). The Ph.D. project was a comparative study of the organisation of consumer co-operative societies in Sweden and Britain. I have continued to do...

Student Tijmen Duivenvoorden has been awarded the Gun & Einar Larsson Scholarship 2026 (GELS) for his project “Feeding Futures in South Africa.” The project explores how school meal programs affect...

Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) is a leading research institute with a strong policy focus. Since our founding in 1989, our work originates from the transition from centrally...