MIRAI 2.0 is an academic alliance among 20 Universities in Sweden and Japan, aiming to promote long-term research collaboration between the two countries. The next MIRAI 2.0 Research and Innovation...

The Department of Accounting proudly shares faculty achievements in a 2021 Annual Summary

The Department of Accounting proudly shares faculty achievements in a 2021 Annual Summary

On Feb 1, Prof. Bruce Hardie from London Business School gave a talk about his research journey from a person “without statistics and mathematics background” to one of the most influential quantitive...

Researchers from the Mechanism Design and Education Economics groups of Institute of Economics, CERS have joined forces with a charity organisation and an e-learning platform to create a web platform...

Rationing of medical resources is a critical issue in the COVID-19 pandemic. A new working paper analyzes the consequences of rationing medical resources through a reserve system.

The tradeoffs between contagion management and economic activity is sharper in poor countries and emerging markets. "We cannot have the poor, the labourers and the migrants bear the brunt of the...

A recent report by SSE-CERN network member Jon Fiva and Oda Nedregård presents data from debates in Norwegian parliament showing that preparation for crisis is not on the political agenda except for...

A paper by Matz Dahlberg (IBF, UU, IFAU) and a group of Uppsala-based researchers suggests that changes in mobility patterns are similar across geographic areas with different socioeconomic and...

A new working paper by Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Werning and Michael Whinston study optimal lockdown policy in the framework of a standard SIR epidemic model with multiple risk groups...