The winners of the Hult Prize in Sweden were announced at HHS aula last Friday. Twelve teams competed which is double the number from last year. This year's challenge, which is set every year by...

The social and physical contexts are crucial to how we perceive advertising and are affected by it. This is shown in a recently published dissertation from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

Kerem Cosar of University of Chicago's Booth School of Business will be a visitor to the economics department during September.

Sara Rosengren comments on the retail apocalypse in Svenska Dagbladet.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organized a day’s conference on the...

The SIR Office will be closed from December 21 to January 7. Season´s greetings from SIR!

Are we seeing a rise in philanthropy in Sweden? Lars Strannegård, president of the Stockholm School of Economics, sees a rising trend in donations to the School as well as to other organizations and...

What has been going on in the Russian economy under President Putin? And what may the future look like given the external environment, internal challenges and reform processes? New book "The Russian...

Jenny Simon has won the Klaus Liebscher Award for her paper "Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions" (joint with Justin Valasek).

Lennart Samuelson appears in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet with an essay about Catherine Merridale's book "Ivan's war" and the everyday life of Red Army soldiers  during and after the second...