Policy brief: A common presumption in economics is that a carbon tax is regressive – that the tax disproportionately burdens low-income households. However, this presumption originates from early...

New policy brief by Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, provides an analysis on the depth of Russia’s oil dependence.

Dagens Arena writes about Amazon’s business model and also effects on the Swedish retail industry if the giant establish in Sweden. Parts of the article is based on Sara Rosengren’s recent seminar in...

Department of Economics is welcoming you to online seminar with Heidi Thysen, LSE/NHH, presenting the paper "Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations".   This is an online seminar...

Co-creating industry development.

This brief provides an overview of the discussion on the relative merits of grants and loans in the literature on foreign aid, including a short section on debt relief initiatives. These claims are...

Policy brief: The Belarus economy was already struggling to generate growth before both the corona pandemic and the political protests following the August presidential election. The lack of growth...

Even bigger steps towards the goal of getting more students to form companies are being taken by the Stockholm School of Economics and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The schools are...

Misum is the sustainability center of Stockholm School of Economics. Read here two very different reactions on today´s Nobel in Economics from the Misum researchers Max Jerneck, PhD, and Ranjula Bali...