While recruitment freezes and shrinking research budgets are hitting universities hard in the U.S., there are signs of hope in Sweden. With new support for fundamental research in economics,...

Sweden has pledged SEK 114 billion in support to Ukraine – its largest commitment to another country in modern times. At a seminar hosted by the European Parliament in Stockholm, Torbjörn Becker,...

Sanctions are tightening the pressure on Russia’s war economy, even if official figures still suggest resilience. At a recent seminar hosted by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI),...

Could Sweden emerge as an attractive alternative for international researchers struggling to find jobs at U.S. universities? Yes—at least for early-career academics, a group of international scholars...

Research from Misum affiliates: published papers, articles and book chapters 2022.

Research from HOSS affiliates: published papers, articles and book chapters 2024

Oil has for decades been perceived as a necessary and highly addictive energy commodity, fueling the world economy. It is a crucial input good for most of the net-oil consumer countries, and it is an...

Three scenarios for how COVID-19 will change the experience industries.

In this brief, we report on the FREE network webinar on the state of vaccinations and the challenges ahead for opening up economies while containing the pandemic, held on June 22, 2021.

Research The overall theme of the research at the Center for Media and Economic Psychology concerns psychological aspects of behavior of different kinds of economic actors - individuals as well as