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Pamela Campa: No data-based evidence that gender quotas decrease the “quality” of politicians
17 January 2020
How acute is the issue of gender inequality in politics in the world today? And what is the world losing from the under-representation of women in politics? Pamela Campa, Assistant Professor at SITE, explains the issue behind gender inequality in politics in a recent interview by European Dialogue: Expert Group.
Highlights from SITE's Academic Conference 2019
15 January 2020
On December 16-17, 2019, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics hosted the annual Academic Conference at the Stockholm School of Economics that brought together researchers and scholars in economics and political science from all over Europe and North America contributing to a better understanding of the political economy of Eastern Europe.
SITE Energy Talks – Highlights and Presentations
16 October 2018
This year’s SITE Energy Talks – Energy Demand Management: Insights from Behavioral Economics, was devoted to discussing how consumers make energy efficiency decisions and what incentives can be used to change consumer behaviour.
Finding cooperators: Sorting through repeated interaction
28 March 2018
By Mark Bernard (with Jack Fanning and Sevgi Yuksel), Article in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Myths and Numbers on Whistleblower Rewards
21 March 2018
By Giancarlo Spagnolo and Theo Nyreröd
Signaling Dissent: Political Behavior in the Arab World
21 March 2018
By Anders Olofsgård, Raj M. Desai and Tarik Yousef
Imperfect Financial Markets as a Commitment Device for the Government
21 December 2017
By Jenny Simon, Working Paper
Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
21 December 2017
By Jenny Simon, Working Paper
The Political Economy of Multilateral Aid Funds
21 December 2017
By Jenny Simon (with Justin Valasek)
Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
21 December 2017
By Jenny Simon (with Justin M. Valasek)