Hur kommer det sig att vi hellre sätter oss nakna i en bastu full med främlingar än berättar vad vi tjänar? Micael Dahlen har skrivit sjätte delen i SvD Under streckets serie om jagets förändrade roll i vår kultur.

Sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are argued to be the strongest and farthest-reaching imposed on a major power after WWII, more numerous and more comprehensive than all other measures currently in force against all other sanctioned countries. A question often asked, which is hard to answer, is whether sanctions are effective.

Listen to CCM researcher Hanna Berg talk about her research on elderly consumers in retail environments. Register for the seminar (in Swedish) May 13, 10.00-12.00. You can attend the free seminar online or in Göteborg!

On May 5 we were thrilled to participate in the “When Machine Learning Meets Online Experiments” workshop with Professor Gui Liberali from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Last week students visited the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of their course in applied history. They listened to lectures about the Cold War from leading scholars and visited historical sites in the American capital.

Everybody is deeply shaken by the horror of war, but there are some gender differences in the type of harm that individuals face. Acknowledging the specific risk that women face during wartime in order to target interventions is important, especially considering that often the actors that sit at peace negotiation tables are exclusively men. Pamela Campa, Assistant Professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), discusses the risks that women face during a war conflict.

In today’s innovation space, the goal is to design meaningful products, not just more capable ones. It is vital to critically evaluate innovation projects to ensure that they are on the right track.

"Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study" written by Julius Andersson, Assistant Professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), has won the 2022 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award.

The world is currently experiencing what can be labelled as a global energy crisis, with surging prices for oil, coal, and natural gas. For households in Sweden and abroad, this translates into higher gasoline and diesel prices at the pump as well as increased electricity and heating costs. In this policy brief, Julius Andersson, Assistant Professor at SITE, together with Celina Tippmann, Research Assistant at SITE, put the current gasoline price in Sweden into a historical context and answer two related questions: are Swedish households paying more today for gasoline than ever before? And should policymakers respond by reducing gasoline taxes?

Welcome to a seminar on Thursday 19 May with Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University.