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SSE Alumnae awarded for best thesis on civil society
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2017-12-14
Our Alumni Antonia Linnarsson and Lina Wingren (MSc in Business & Management) have received the Civil Society Scholarship (Civilsamhällesstipendiet) for their thesis ”Blurring realities between NPOs &...
The project “Retail (big)data and predictive analysis ” has been granted SEK 1 720 000 by the Torsten Söderberg’ foundation
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2017-12-21
"Retail (big)data and predictive analysis" is a joint project by the Center for Retailing (CFR) and the Center for Economic Statistics (CES), and aims at financing PhD students in marketing analytics...
How do we prevent the next financial crisis?
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2018-01-09
Marcus Opp, Associate Professor in financial economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, has received a research grant from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation to study how to prevent...
Highlights from Academic Conference 2019
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2020-01-15
On December 16-17, 2019, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics hosted the annual Academic Conference at the Stockholm School of Economics that brought together researchers and scholars in...
No data-based evidence that gender quotas decrease the “quality” of politicians
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2020-01-17
How acute is the issue of gender inequality in politics in the world today? And what is the world losing from the under-representation of women in politics? Pamela Campa, Assistant Professor at SITE,...
Transition is (still) not a done deal
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2020-02-28
SITE's Director, Torbjörn Becker, shares his thoughts and reflection on a Baltic Rim Economies article about 30 years after the first post-communist election in Poland, the fall of the Berlin Wall,...
What has happened to the Russian economy since 2000?
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2020-03-05
Although significant growth has been achieved since 2000, all of this came in the first two tenures of Putin in the Kremlin during the increasing oil prices. But is Russia still a hostage to the whims...
Women in Power: Unpopular, unwilling or held back?
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2020-03-08
Sweden is considered one of the most gender equal countries but the question remains whether there are still challenges when it comes to gender equality in Sweden. We interviewed Pamela Campa...
The shock effects of the pandemic and the authoritarian threat
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2020-04-15
Six months after the corona virus first appeared, the world economy is entering a deep economic crisis that could result in political power shifts at global level. The absence of leadership in the US...
Can Increased Textbook Usage Affect Student Learning in Low-Income Countries
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2020-05-06
Anders Olofsgård (Associate Professor at SITE) together with co-authors Jean-Benoit Falisse and Marieke Huysentruyt studied the impact of a simple “textbooks for self-study” incentive scheme targeting...