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How do media affect people’s incentives to comply with lockdown?
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2020-05-13
Conservative media coverage during the pandemic affects negatively people’s compliance with the social distancing rules, suggests new US county-level study.
Erling Persson Visiting Professor Olav Sorenson to visit SSE
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2022-03-11
On Monday the 14th of March, Erling Persson Visiting Professor Olav Sorenson will begin a three week visit of to the House of Innovation and the House of Finance.
Optimizing behavior alters predictions of epidemiological models
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2020-05-15
There is a surge of papers in economics that integrate economic models with the canonical epidemiological SIR model. Two recent papers show that incorporating individual decision-making alters key...
Counterproductive Incentives in the Business Compensation Scheme
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2020-05-11
The Norwegian government has designed a business compensation scheme to help firms avoid bankruptcies and keep operating during the corona crisis.
Flawed risk assessment and policy decisions
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2020-05-10
Humans are bad at assessing risk even in the best of times. During a pandemic – when the disease is unfamiliar, people are isolated and stressed, and the death toll is rising – our risk perception...
Paying for the pandemic
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2020-05-06
TSE economists weigh in on the role of the ECB and financial markets for the financing of the Covid debt in Europe.
Debate: Protecting whistleblowers must not be a matter of letting the wolf guard the sheep
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2022-01-14
Dagens Industri - 4 January 2022 - Anna Essén
Mistra Financial Systems
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2020-07-07
The 21st century is shaped by pervasive social and ecological and challenges as concomitants of economic growth, depicted in the 17 United Nation's 'Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs). Each of the...
Roberto Verganti wins 2020 Albert Page Award for Outstanding Professional Contribution
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2022-01-14
House of Innovation Professor Roberto Verganti has, together with co-authors Luca Vendraminelli and Marco Iansiti of Harvard, been awarded the 2020 Best paper Award by the Journal of Product...
Social distancing before government intervention
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2020-05-04
Micro-data on mobility in the US show that individuals substantially reduced their exposure to others long before the introduction of restrictions on movement in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.