Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On March 5, 2026, we welcome Ruben Enikolopov to present new evidence on the market and political implications of algorithmic gatekeeping in online news. Using large-scale data from Yandex News, the study quantifies how front-page rankings redistribute audience attention and shape media production incentives - before and after a regulatory shock that altered platform liability.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On March 31, 2026, we welcome Pierre-Louis Vézina to discuss refugee entrepreneurship in Poland after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, examining firm creation, spillovers to domestic business formation, and underlying mechanisms using registry and survey data.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On April 7, 2026, we welcome Jaakko Meriläinen to present new evidence on how elite networks shaped nation-building in 19th-century Finland, tracing the diffusion of nationalist adoption through social ties and its longer-run effects on identity formation and political development.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On April 14, 2026, we welcome Nina Khairova to discuss how misinformation escalates into coordinated propaganda campaigns in digital environments, and what this implies for detecting manipulative information in the context of hybrid warfare. The seminar introduces a framework for AI-based misinformation detection and uses the Russian–Ukrainian war as a case study to illustrate why context-aware approaches are essential.

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Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 12, 2026, we welcome Jan Christoph Steckel to discuss how household electricity price shocks shape democratic attitudes and party support in Germany during the 2022–2023 energy crisis, drawing on evidence from a four-wave panel survey and billing-system–driven variation.

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