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Counterproductive Incentives in the Business Compensation Scheme
Last updated
2020-05-11
The Norwegian government has designed a business compensation scheme to help firms avoid bankruptcies and keep operating during the corona crisis.
Temporary incarceration is correlated with Covid-19 infection.
Last updated
2020-06-15
In a new peer reviewed study in Health Affairs, Eric Reinhart and Daniel Chen show that being temporarily jailed (a.k.a. jail cycling) is correlated with Covid-19 infection
Flawed risk assessment and policy decisions
Last updated
2020-05-10
Humans are bad at assessing risk even in the best of times. During a pandemic – when the disease is unfamiliar, people are isolated and stressed, and the death toll is rising – our risk perception...
Forecasting the local progression of the Covid-19 epidemic
Last updated
2020-05-30
Combining ideas from several fields of mathematics - tropical geometry, Perron-Frobenius theory, probability and optimisation, transport PDE in population dynamics - a new study provides an algorithm...
Socio-economic assessment of infection control measures
Last updated
2020-05-30
A new report written by an expert group chaired by Steinar Holden and commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health assesses the socio-economic effects of infection control and prevention...
Paying for the pandemic
Last updated
2020-05-06
TSE economists weigh in on the role of the ECB and financial markets for the financing of the Covid debt in Europe.
Sara Rosengren in Dagens Arena
Last updated
2019-08-12
Dagens Arena writes about Amazon’s business model and also effects on the Swedish retail industry if the giant establish in Sweden. Parts of the article is based on Sara Rosengren’s recent seminar in...
Jonas Colliander comments on influencers as future potentates and today’s modest review of influencers
Last updated
2019-06-10
Closed for summer holidays
Last updated
2019-07-01
The SIR Office will be closed from July 8 to August 12.
Bokseminarium: Att styra och leda i gränslandet
Last updated
2019-10-23
Välkomna till ett spännande bokseminarium om samhällets gränsland. Närmare bestämt ska det handla om de organisationer – ofta kallade hybridorganisationer – som befolkar dem.