On May 11 the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs organized Development Day 2015 at the Stockholm School of Economics. As in previous years,...

The 2014 Gun and Einar Larsson scholarship (GELS) has been awarded to Johannes Meder and Adam Novak, both students at the Stockholm School of Economics, for their project on developing a set of...

New SITE working paper empirically investigates how political elites can prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict.

New working paper reports findings from a unique combination of a village-randomized controlled trial and a lab-in-the-field experiment.

The Russian economy is facing serious challenges in 2015 even after the currency and stock market have strengthened on the back of (expectations of even) higher oil prices. Policy makers that ignore...

Researchers have found out that there is an indication of strategic bunching of Swedish tenders under the EU threshold and thresholds rules in public procurement affect the behaviour of procuring...

After several decades of studies, the academic community still does not have an answer to whether foreign aid affects growth. SITE assistant professor Maria Perrotta Berlin tries to answer why aid...

What are the characteristics of the reporting cartel members? Catarina Marvão, Post-Doctoral Fellow at SITE addresses this question by developing and testing a model where cartel members are...

During the first week of October 2015, Katharina Pilhofer will attend the annual colloquium of Hamburg-based Respect Research Group

How to increase the real impacts that social enterprises make? How to accelerate the scaling of impactful social enterprise experiences? How to help social enterprises in growing their impact?...