The World Bank has published a new book on “Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies”, edited by Alistair Dieppe, with a database covering 164 countries over 1980-2018. The book analyses the...

A new working paper from Marta Giagheddu and Andrea Papetti illustrates the pros and cons of different combinations of economic shutdown and targeted social distancing with a special focus on the...

A new working paper by network member Flavio Toxvaerd, together with Robert Rowthorn considers a SIR model of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 or swine flu, in which costly treatment or...

How effective are restrictions on geographic mobility in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic?

China has experienced rapid industrialization and economic growth; electricity use has grown accordingly. Yet this electricity is also associated with extreme levels of pollution, which has attracted...

In her dissertation project, PhD Student Cecilia Fredriksson is studying harmonisation efforts (i.e. homogenisation) and the re-organisation of independent auditing in a European perspective. This is...

"IEA World Energy Outlook and Challenges to Japan" by Mr. Nobuo Tanaka, Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 

by Chloé Le Coq (with J. Tremewan and A. Wagner), SITE Working Paper

by Anders Olofsgård and Maria Perrotta Berlin (with Emmanuel Frot), published in World Development

by Giancarlo Spagnolo (with P. Buccirossi, T. Duso, C. Vitale and L. Ciari), published in Review of Economics and Statistics