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

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 (MR-SIR).

7,400 participants all on a mission to design, test and execute solutions for the future of Sweden in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the initiative Break Even, SSE MBA student Carissma Dennis won the category Save Business in the virtual hackathon Hack the Crisis.

For the fourth year in a row, the Stockholm School of Economics has been awarded five stars by STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education. The foundation measures how international higher education institutions are.

The tradeoffs between contagion management and economic activity is sharper in poor countries and emerging markets. "We cannot have the poor, the labourers and the migrants bear the brunt of the effort to contain the spread of the virus, nor do we want to weaken the foundations of the economy so much that we emerge from the pandemic onto an economic wasteland."

Congratulations Karol Vieker, Equality and Diversity Manager at SSE, on being awarded this year’s Friend of Stockholm’s Students! How did you receive the news?

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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.

A paper by Matz Dahlberg (IBF, UU, IFAU) and a group of Uppsala-based researchers suggests that changes in mobility patterns are similar across geographic areas with different socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.

Researchers from the Mechanism Design and Education Economics groups of Institute of Economics, CERS have joined forces with a charity organisation and an e-learning platform to create a web platform for assigning students to mentors in Hungary. The matching runs are conducted once a week to form mentoring pairs and groups based on the needs and preferences of the participants.