New policy brief by Erik Meyersson, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), examines the timing of Turkey’s authoritarian turn using raw data measuring freedoms...

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.

Around 120,000 students are finishing compulsory school in Sweden this month—many of them with limited information about future career and educational options. Preliminary findings from an ongoing...

Can happiness be a foundation for national development? The Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness (CWWH) and Bhutan's Royal Institute for Governmental Strategy and Studies are collaborating to...

The Stockholm School of Economics’ Master in Finance program keeps its spot as the number one provider of finance master education in the Nordic and Baltic region, according to the Financial Times’...

New study on ‘design heterogeneity’ highlights the limits of generalizability and informativeness of individual experimental designs.

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Zoltán Rácz. He has successfully defended his thesis on the 7th of June, and we congratulate him on this momentous achievement....

Johanna Rickne, Affiliated Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, has been awarded the prestigious SNS Prize 2023 for her outstanding research on economic and political gender equality.

We are delighted to welcome a new researcher to the Economics Department, Jaakko Meriläinen, who will start as an Assistant professor at the department after the summer.

This January, new artworks were installed in the northern staircase of Sveavägen 65, including works by artists Moa Israelsson, Klara Kristalova, Fredrik Wretman, and last year’s Maria Bonnier Dahlin...