A new working paper by researchers at University of Copenhagen and CEPI uses transaction data from a large bank in Scandinavia to estimate the effect of social distancing laws on consumer spending in...

A recent report by Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot shows that job search on Sweden’s largest job board Platsbanken changed markedly around the time of the outbreak of Covid 19.

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2022 - University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Federico Rossi, University of Warwick, presenting "The Human Side of Structural Transformation". We document that nearly half of the global...

Department of Economics welcomes you to a webinar with Fabiano Schivardi, LUISS, presenting "Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events". Using administrative data on Italian social...

The Department of Economics welcomes you to the Seminar in Economics with Jonathan de Quidt, Associate Professor at Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University,...

Swedish GDP closely follows that of our most important trading partners. In this Economic Commentary, network member Paola Di Casola and co-authors Y. Akkaya, C.-J. Belfrage and V. Corbo (Monetary...

Network member Dirk Niepelt and coauthor Martín Gonzalez-Eiras embed lockdown choice in a simplified SIR model and solve for the optimal length and intensity of lockdown, assuming a trade-off between...

In a recent working paper “Projecting the potential impacts of COVID-19school closures on academic achievement ” Megan Kuhfeld, James Soland, Beth Tarasawa, Angela Johnson, Erik Ruzek, Jing Liu use...

The Riksbank has put together a database with high-frequency data about the Swedish economy. Other government agencies have taken similar initiatives.