In recent years, press freedom in many Eastern European countries has increasingly come under threat. This policy brief provides an overview of the importance of a free press for democracy and the...

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...

Ukraine is currently receiving substantial inflows of foreign aid from western donors to help the country withstand the Russian aggression. The foreign aid flows partly reflect altruistic motives from...

Micro finance could help marginalized groups in Sweden get back on their feet after the crisis.

New policy brief by Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, provides an analysis of what the new macro economic reality of Russia means for its armament plans.

NEW PAPER PUBLISHED (2017-06-21): Misum´s Enrico Fontana´s paper "Strategic CSR: a panacea for profit and altruism? An empirical study among executives in the Bangladeshi RMG supply chain" is...

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs organised the annual SITE Development Day conference on the topic of development finance. The conference...

On December 14-15th, 2017 SITE hosted its annual academic conference together with Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE).

This Nobel week, we revisit academic talks delivered by two notable Nobel Laureates at the Misum Forum, the flagship conference hosted by Misum at the Stockholm School of Economics.

There are great expectations that vaccinations will enable a return to normality from COVID-19. However, there is massive variation in vaccination efforts, vaccine access, and attitudes to vaccination...