The seminar with Jörgen Weibull has been cancelled. How much and when should we limit economic and social activity to ensure that the health-care system is not overwhelmed during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained and suppression is costly. Providing a fully analytical solution we show that the common wisdom of “flattening the curve” is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal suppression is discontinuous.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Pedro Guimarães Naso, Henan University, presenting "Heterogeneous Impacts of Schools Fee Elimination in Tanzania: Gender and Colonial Infrastructure". We investigate the impacts of the 2002 elimination of primary school fees in Tanzania. We explore how the magnitude of these effects depends on differences in gender and colonial investment in educational infrastructure.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Salil Sharma, SSE, presenting "Costly Sequential Screening".

Welcome to the 2022 Ohlin Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Adam Altmejd, SSE, presenting "Inheritance of Fields of Study". Swedish children are often three times more likely than the average child to attain the degree that their parent holds. To estimate how much of this association is caused by the choices of the parent, I employ a regression discontinuity design to study the choices of individuals who applied to Swedish universities between 1977 and 1999 and evaluate if their enrollment in fields increase the probability that their children later study the same topic.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Isis Durrmeyer, Toulouse School of Economics, presenting "The Welfare Costs of Urban Traffic Regulations". We compare the short-term impacts of alternative transportation policies to reduce road traffic. Our results suggest that all the policies are costly for individuals: the benefits of relaxing road congestion do not offset the costs of substituting away from cars.

ACE Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar, February 2022

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Chloé Nibourel, SSE, presenting "Young politicians in Sweden".

The Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE) network with two of its members, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), invite you to an online seminar and discussion on the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine and potential consequences. Join the discussion on 17 February 2022!

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Christian Bayer, University of Bonn, presenting "Monopsony Makes Firms not only Small but also Unproductive: Why East Germany has not Converged". When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages—that is, when they have monopsony power—some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that East German plants (compared to West German ones) face a steeper sizewage curve, invest less into marketing, and remain smaller.