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...

Can you inherit the desire to learn? For Henrik Rhenman, the need to explore has always been one of his greatest strengths. It was as though he was born wanting to know more. Henrik was just five...

Against the background of fast rising gasoline and diesel prices in 2022, a number of European countries have reduced fuel tax rates, often in the form of temporary “gas tax holidays”. In this policy...

Nils-Erik Wirsäll (1916-2008) was president of ICA AB 1972-1978 and a member of ICA’s board 1972-1984. He has also been the chairman of Ahlsell and Procordia, as well as vice chairman of Skandia. He...

Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) is pleased to welcome Fiskars Group as a Retail Club Partner at the Center for Retailing. Fiskars Group expertise in retail will bring valuable insights to both...

How much a country is talked about in the media can determine its place in the public debate. In this brief, SITE researchers Maiting Zhuang and Svante Strömberg study the amount of news coverage...

How can we explain difference in OECD countries’ disease prevention policies?

Book chapters 1986 - Forthcoming

Wasps Nest (2010, Steel wire, papier maché)

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