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MIRAI 2.0 is an academic alliance among 20 Universities in Sweden and Japan, aiming to promote long-term research collaboration between the two countries. The next MIRAI 2.0 Research and Innovation week will be organized on November 15-18, 2022 at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. The theme for the conference is “Sharing ONE future: Integrative Knowledge and Sustainable Transformation towards a better world”.

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A new study explores the identity-related challenges that accountants with a strong business partner identity might face when being confronted with strict productivity measures.

Sweden has attracted a lot of interest as one of few countries that did not impose mandatory lockdowns or curfews in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. New research studies show how local Swedish media in this environment affect individual behavior. Read the latest SITE working paper where researchers Marcel Garz (Jönköping University) and Maiting Zhuang (SITE), investigate the effects of media coverage on compliance with public health recommendations during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden.

Ahead of Sweden's general election in September, Rikard Westerberg asks what lessons can be learned from the intensely contested 1948 election

The concern of Russian gas supply disruption and its implications has never been as serious. Chloé Le Coq, Professor of Economics at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), discusses how nudging energy consumers to lower their demand may support the plans of the European Commission.