A group of Swedish economists belonging to the SSE-CERN network published a short white paper with policy ideas for coping with the Covid-19 pandemic on March 24.

Where the border runs, 2017, by Knutte Wester is on display on the big screen in the atrium of Stockholm School of Economics, March 2021. What exists beyond a threshold, beyond a boundary? The...

I Am Mountain, To Measure Impermanence by Hanna Ljungh is screened in the atrium during March 2020.

A film by Jenny Holt about the aesthetics of farm work, created in cooperation between an artist, workers, animals and a landscape. A reminder of how easy it is to embark on abstractions, theoretical...

A paper by Benjamin Born, Alexander M. Dietrich and Gernot J. Müller study the case of Sweden – one of the few countries without a lockdown – and use synthetic control techniques to develop a...

Studies on previous pandemic episodes find large and persistent effects on the real economy, meaning GDP, consumption and real rates of return.

The Waiting Room (2017-2019) by Gunilla Josephson contains four video works screened in the atrium in June 2020.

A new working paper by Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber use a repeated large-scale survey of (representative) households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor...

In a recent working paper entitled "Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint", network members Laurent Miclo, Daniel Spiro and Jörgen Weibull analyze this question and show that...

A new working paper by Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Werning and Michael Whinston study optimal lockdown policy in the framework of a standard SIR epidemic model with multiple risk groups...