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?

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...

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

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...

There are great expectations that vaccinations will enable a return to normality from COVID-19. However, there is massive variation in vaccination efforts, vaccine access, and attitudes to vaccination...

The concern of Russian gas supply disruption and its implications has never been as serious. Chloé Le Coq, Professor of Economics at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and a Research...

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.

This brief provides an overview of the discussion on the relative merits of grants and loans in the literature on foreign aid, including a short section on debt relief initiatives. These claims are...