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What are the consequences of domestic violence? What are the factors behind domestic violence? How does war affect the prevalence of gender violence in conflict areas and post conflicts? On 11 May 2022, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) together with the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA) and the FREE Network hosted a hybrid conference focused on 'Economic and social context of domestic violence' with a special panel session on ‘Dimensions of gender-based violence in military conflicts’.

Hur kommer det sig att vi hellre sätter oss nakna i en bastu full med främlingar än berättar vad vi tjänar? Micael Dahlen har skrivit sjätte delen i SvD Under streckets serie om jagets förändrade roll i vår kultur.

Sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are argued to be the strongest and farthest-reaching imposed on a major power after WWII, more numerous and more comprehensive than all other measures currently in force against all other sanctioned countries. A question often asked, which is hard to answer, is whether sanctions are effective.

Listen to CCM researcher Hanna Berg talk about her research on elderly consumers in retail environments. Register for the seminar (in Swedish) May 13, 10.00-12.00. You can attend the free seminar online or in Göteborg!

On May 5 we were thrilled to participate in the “When Machine Learning Meets Online Experiments” workshop with Professor Gui Liberali from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Last week students visited the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of their course in applied history. They listened to lectures about the Cold War from leading scholars and visited historical sites in the American capital.