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Scales of measurement - embedded in our sense of self?
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2021-08-31
Art Initiative took Assistant Professor Emilia Cederberg to the Jacob Dahlgren Room - and she wrote this on standards, good performance and our sense of self.
Speakers
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2021-08-23
Read more about the speakers and panelists who will be presenting their research and industry insights at Misum Forum 2021 below.
Program
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2021-09-01
The Forum will take place fully online on 8 October 2021, starting at 9:00 CEST (Stockholm time). See below a preliminary schedule including session timings and speakers. Session topics will be added...
Pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic: Air quality in Eastern Europe
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2021-02-16
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to a pre-existing threat to global health: the quality of air in cities around the world. Prolonged exposure to air pollution has been found to increase the...
What are the challenges to media freedom in Eastern European countries?
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2021-03-05
In recent years, press freedom in many Eastern European countries has increasingly come under threat. This policy brief provides an overview of the importance of a free press for democracy and the...
Understanding Russia’s GDP numbers in the COVID-19 crisis
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2021-03-11
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...
Inequality in the pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
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2021-03-22
Most reports on the labor-market effects of the first wave of COVID-19 have pointed to women, low-skilled workers and other vulnerable groups being more affected. Research on the topic shows a more...
Does the Russian stock market care about Navalny?
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2021-04-20
Alexei Navalny is the most prominent opposition leader in Russia today. During 2020, he entered not only the domestic Russian news flows, but was a major news story around the world following his...
Carbon Tax Regressivity and Income Inequality
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2021-05-17
Policy brief: A common presumption in economics is that a carbon tax is regressive – that the tax disproportionately burdens low-income households. However, this presumption originates from early...
The southern Urals as a touchstone for Soviet wartime performance
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2021-05-27
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...