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What policies address both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis?
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2020-06-17
In a new paper, network members Niko Jaakkola and Daniel Spiro with co-authors analyse policies that would jointly address the coronavirus economic crisis and the climate crisis.
Nowcasting COVID-19 statistics
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2020-06-22
Statistics are often registered with delay and Swedish COVID-19 deaths are reported with up to 14 days of lag. Death statistics therefore always appear to be on a positive trend. In a new paper,...
Who's winning the vaccination race? Addressing the COVID-19 vaccination effort in Eastern Europe
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2021-03-01
There are great expectations that vaccinations will enable a return to normality from COVID-19. However, there is massive variation in vaccination efforts, vaccine access, and attitudes to vaccination...
Women in politics: Why are they under-represented?
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2021-03-08
Women are generally under-represented in political offices worldwide, and their under-representation becomes larger in more senior positions. This brief reviews some recent academic literature in...
Surprised by wirecard? Enablers of corporate wrongdoing in Europe
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2021-04-09
Working paper: The last two decades have uncovered a concerning range of corporate wrongdoing by large European firms in a wide variety of industries. What has driven European firms to engage in such...
What would have happened if Sweden had imposed a lockdown?
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2021-04-19
Working paper: SITE researcher Giancarlo Spagnolo together with co-authors compare different indicators of the spread and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a novel method to adjust...
The future of energy storage: challenges and opportunities
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2021-04-26
Policy brief: As the dramatic consequences of climate change are starting to unfold, addressing the intermittency of low-carbon energy sources, such as solar and wind, is crucial. The obvious solution...
Vaccination progress and the opening up of economies
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2021-08-11
In this brief, we report on the FREE network webinar on the state of vaccinations and the challenges ahead for opening up economies while containing the pandemic, held on June 22, 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic effects on our well-being
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2021-09-20
This brief summarizes the insights shared in the online workshop “Dimensions of Well-being“, where participants presented and discussed their latest research relating to the dimensions of well-being....
New insights concerning the 1970 nobel prize in literature to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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2021-11-15
The recently declassified proceedings of the Swedish Academy shed new light on why it awarded Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the literature prize in 1970. His novels reflected unique experiences of many...