News at SITE

Capital flows between Sweden and Russia sheds some light on more general theoretical and empirical issues associated with FDI and portfolio flows that are highly relevant for Russia today. New policy brief by Torbjörn Becker offers policy lessons that can help modernize Russian economy.

by Torbjörn Becker, SITE Working Paper

Donor countries often face a Samaritan’s dilemma when trying to implement political conditionality in bilateral aid. New policy brief on strategic aid financing by Jenny Simon sheds light on how donor countries can solve Samaritan’s dilemma.

On March 23, the United Nations University UNU-WIDER and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) will host a WIDER Annual Lecture by Professor Martin Ravallion, a leading economist in the research of poverty and policies for fighting it.

by Elena Paltseva (with Tore Ellingsen), published in The Review of Economic Studies

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) has been ranked among the world’s leading think tanks in the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index.