Humans are bad at assessing risk even in the best of times. During a pandemic – when the disease is unfamiliar, people are isolated and stressed, and the death toll is rising – our risk perception...

TSE economists weigh in on the role of the ECB and financial markets for the financing of the Covid debt in Europe.

How does the financial system work, what risks and stressors are affecting the economy and what can we do to avoid a financial crisis? In this episode of Sound Economy, Professor Bo Becker talks about...

Want to learn more about the latest research in finance, retail, innovation and sustainability? Have a listen to Sound Economy, a new podcast from the Stockholm School of Economics, featuring some of...

The Graduate School in Asian Studies will start in January 2023 with funding from the Swedish Research Council.

In the current coronavirus outbreak, governments face hard decisions on how to best combat the spread of the virus. This note proposes a way to capture the spread of contagion, so as to quickly...

A new working paper by Jakob Jonnerby (Oxford) and co-authors analyzes how to optimally prioritize testing resources under scarcity.

Oct 26, 2022, 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time

Micro-data on mobility in the US show that individuals substantially reduced their exposure to others long before the introduction of restrictions on movement in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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