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What policies address both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis?

17 June 2020
In a new paper, network members Niko Jaakkola and Daniel Spiro with co-authors analyse policies that would jointly address the coronavirus economic crisis and the climate crisis.

PhD candidate Maria Bustamante awarded Best Student Paper

17 June 2020
Maria J. Bustamante was awarded the Alex Gofman Award for Best Student Paper at the XXXI ISPIM Innovation Conference, held June 7-10, 2020. This year’s event was virtual due to the Covid-19 situation.

COVID-19: navigating sustainability risks in the pandemic

17 June 2020
As part of 'Sweden through the crisis', the newly released Covid-19 report from the Stockholm School of Economics, a transdisciplinary team of Misum researchers has explored previous health crises in order to identify sustainability pathways for industry and development policymakers dealing with socio-economic fallout.

Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany

16 June 2020
The effect of face masks worn in public on the spread of Covid-19 has not been systematically analyzed so far. A new IZA Discussion Paper by Klaus Wälde and coauthors uses the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of Covid-19 in Germany.

How did we end up here?Governance lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

16 June 2020
You are invited to a CEPR / LSE IGA / SPP webinar, co-organised with SITE at Stockholm School of Economics, hosting a panel discussion with Karolina Ekholm, Jeremy Farrar, Bengt Holmström, Devi Sridhar and Erik Berglöf.

Diversity among companies in SSE Business Lab’s summer program

16 June 2020
Diversity is the common thread, as seven teams today start SSE Business Lab’s acceleration program Activate. Over 85 percent of the admitted teams have both male and female co-founders.

Report: "Sweden through the crisis"

15 June 2020
The Stockholm School of Economics launched today the first part of the new report "Sweden through the crisis". In it you can read views and perspectives from researchers connected to the School.

Temporary incarceration is correlated with Covid-19 infection

15 June 2020
In a new peer reviewed study in Health Affairs, Eric Reinhart and Daniel Chen show that being temporarily jailed (a.k.a. jail cycling) is correlated with Covid-19 infection

Sweden through the crisis: a new research report investigates the Swedish viewpoint in times of coronavirus

15 June 2020
Sweden’s outlier position in handling the coronavirus has put the country at the center of global public debate. How did Sweden end up with different policies than other comparable countries? This subject – and much more – is broached in a comprehensive new report from a group of researchers affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics, titled Sweden through the crisis.

Sweden through the crisis: a new research report investigates the Swedish viewpoint in times of coronavirus

15 June 2020
Sweden’s outlier position in handling the coronavirus has put the country at the center of global public debate. How did Sweden end up with different policies than other comparable countries? This subject – and much more – is broached in a comprehensive new report from a group of researchers affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics, titled Sweden through the crisis.