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...

Who will help whom in a post-COVID-19 recovery with massive debt?

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...

Russia’s war on Ukraine entails lost human capital, both in actual lives lost and due to major disruptions to key functions of the society, such as education and research. In light of this, the FREE...

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...

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...

New art at SSE. The Göteborg based artist Klas Barbrosson is exhibiting his triptych SNETT/INÅT/BAKÅT (terrorboll), 2025, in Stockholm in a collaboration between Stockholm Konst, Svenska Brasserier...

Too little slack makes nonprofits fragile, while too much risks waste. A new study from the Center for Security and Resilience at the Stockholm School of Economics introduces the idea of “tappable...

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...

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...