In a new paper, SSE-CERN network members Erik Wengström and Ola Andersson with co-authors estimate that a one-month stay-at-home order would give a welfare loss of around 9 percent of Sweden's monthly...

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Russia’s real GDP fell by a modest 3 percent in 2020. The question addressed here is how a major oil-exporting country can go through the COVID-19 pandemic with a decline of this magnitude when oil...

Why did COVID-19 hit the automotive sector so hard, and can a similar situation in the future be avoided?

On October 13th, 2023, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Forum for Research on Media and Democracy in Eastern Europe (FROMDEE) hosted an academic conference on “Democratic...

Russians are heading to the polling booths on March 18, but where will the economy head after Putin gets elected president again?

Working paper: This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators,...

The Initiative on the Future of Work As workplaces evolve with the rise of generative AI and hybrid work models, the relationship between humans and machines is redefining how we collaborate,

Restoring the SSE Aula to its former glory Photo: SSE Aula 1928 Nobel laureates, politicians, and some of the top professors in the world have taken the stage in the Aula since 1925, and together we