Russia’s real GDP fell by a modest 3 percent in 2020. The question addressed here is how a major oil-exporting country can go through the COVID-19 pandemic with a decline of this magnitude when oil...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked an unprecedented wave of solidarity among the Polish society and generous official support from the Polish government. Three years later, both...

Klas Barbrosson is exhibiting his triptych SNETT/INÅT/BAKÅT (terrorboll), 2025, in Stockholm – a collaboration between Stockholm Konst, Svenska Brasserier and the Stockholm School of Economics. One...

On November 13, 2024, the world famous artist Michelangelo Pistoletto together with SSE students from the Art Division - the student body of Art Initiative - created a version of The Third...

The 2025 Nobel Prize discussion at the Stockholm School of Economics brought together the three economics laureates Joel Mokyr, Peter Howitt and Philippe Aghion to explore how creative destruction...

Faculty The Center for Philosophies of Markets (CPM) is an interdisciplinary research center focused on markets, the ideas and ideals they build on, and how they contribute to shape our society. The

A global tax on carbon agreed upon by several countries worldwide was debated by a group of high-level speakers at the virtual event ‘Bending the Emission curve: Sweden’s Climate Opportunities and...

Research from Misum affiliates: published papers, articles and book chapters 2021

New policy brief by Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, provides an analysis on the depth of Russia’s oil dependence.