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...

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

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...

SITE at Stockholm School of Economics and the LSE Institute of Global Affairs organizes a webinar with leading scholars about early lessons from Sweden's approach to COVID-19 on April 22.

The Italian Society of Economists (SIE) invites to a webinar with Eleni Lioliou (Queen Mary University of London School of Business and Management) and Giovanni Cerulli (IRCrES-CNR - Research...

Please visit the webinar page for coming events and Zoom links.

Debraj Ray (NYU) and Sreenivasan Subramanian (Chennai, India) write a very powerful critique of India's COVID-19 lockdown policy, that rings true much more broadly. Lockdowns and social distancing can...

Although face masks reduce the chance of transmission of coronavirus, some governments have been reluctant to make their use mandatory in public places. People’s behaviour is likely to change when...

The Stockholm China Economic Research Institute (SCERI) at the Stockholm School of Economics invites applications for a Visiting Research Fellowship for studies on East and Southeast Asia. The...

By Jesper Roine (with Daniel Waldenström), Working Paper