After Sweden removed inheritance and gift taxes in 2005, private firms with potential family successors grew faster, invested more, and paid higher corporate taxes than firms without natural heirs,...

The Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) at the Stockholm School of Economics has appointed Staffan Holmberg as its new Executive Director. With a strong background in security work, research,...

Trust is eroding, young people are losing hope, and liberal democracies are under threat. But Nordic countries can be a lighthouse in turbulent times. That was the message from Iceland’s president...

With its eleven newly admitted companies, SSE Business Lab is reaching a new milestone: 307 startups have now passed through the incubator. More than one third of these were admitted just in the past...

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...

Ukraine is currently receiving substantial inflows of foreign aid from western donors to help the country withstand the Russian aggression. The foreign aid flows partly reflect altruistic motives from...

Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, the West has been contemplating sanctions on Russian oil and gas imports. For the EU, this plan poses a significant challenge due to the long-existing...

New policy brief by Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, provides an analysis of what the new macro economic reality of Russia means for its armament plans.

Sherine Garrana, Senior Vice President Global CX Product Line Wellbeing at Electrolux Group, has been awarded the SSE MBA Corporate Partner scholarship 2022. The scholarship is awarded a...

This Nobel week, we revisit academic talks delivered by two notable Nobel Laureates at the Misum Forum, the flagship conference hosted by Misum at the Stockholm School of Economics.