SITE researchers Maria Perrotta Berlin and Anders Olofsgård together with SITE research affiliated faculty Raj M. Desai (Georgetown University and Brookings Institution) examine the effect of a...

The Female Economist of the Year 2016 is Mikaela Lundh. The scholarship, which highlights future female leaders, is being awarded for the 16th consecutive year to an outstanding female student at the...

Stefano Caselli is Vice Rector for International Affairs at Bocconi University since 2012, where is a Full Professor of Banking and Finance at Department of Finance and Algebris Chair in “Long-Term...

In 1903 a large sum of money was donated by the notable Swedish bank director K. A. Wallenberg for the establishment of a business school in Stockholm; the idea of such a business school had...

Policy brief: As time passes and archives open, ever more topics in Russian military-economic history can be studied with primary sources. One such theme is the colossal evacuation of industrial...

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...

Examine photos from the Public Knowledge Event 'Global Development and the Middle-Income Trap' on May 27th.

On the 27th of May, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Knowledge for Change Program of the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the...

Policy brief: Some recently discovered money laundering schemes have funnelled large amounts of illegal money from former soviet states through European banks. This note briefly describes the...