Nearly 300 students, teachers, and representatives from Swedish companies and banks gathered on November 16 at Tumba High School for the F1RST initiative's largest event to date. The goal is to inspire more students to choose a career in business.

SITE and FREE Network researchers delve into Europe's rising fuel costs, post-geopolitical shifts. Focused on gasoline and diesel prices, the study assesses household impacts, advocating nuanced policy responses to address economic challenges in the wake of global energy crises.

Research from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) has a high reach, both in Sweden and the world. SSE has the highest citation impact in Sweden and is above the global average. This according to the latest Swedish Research Barometer, published by the Swedish Research Council.

Maksym Girnyk, Radio Study Driver at Ericsson AB, has been awarded the SSE MBA Corporate Partner scholarship 2023. The scholarship is awarded a top-performing manager employed and nominated by one of SSE's Corporate Partners. It's the 11th consecutive year that SSE handles out the scholarship to it's Corporate Partner companies.

Department of Economics is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Lina Thomas. She has successfully defended her thesis on the 11th of December, and we congratulate her on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Lina!

Winning Project: The third-year students in Fazer Retail Club with the report "Experience Fazer Through a Nordic Culinary Journey".

On October 13th, 2023, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Forum for Research on Media and Democracy in Eastern Europe (FROMDEE) hosted an academic conference on “Democratic Backsliding and Electoral Autocracies”. This brief provides a short summary of the keynote lecture and research presentations featured at the conference.

Professor Elena Antonacopoulou spend the week at SSE and contributed to multiple activities to the Center for Responsible Leadership, in connection to our work on Responsibility, the work of Jeannette Eidmann’s dissertation, research seminars, creative discussions and more.

Three members of our team delivered papers and a symposium as part of the wider theme of the event focusing on ‘The Leadership Dynamics of Systems Change’. This was the 21st Conference in the series dedicated to bringing together leadership scholars and practitioners to jointly advance our understanding of leadership.

Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, and Anders Olofsgård's paper on 'Foreign Aid and Female Empowerment', forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies, uses geo-coded data to delve into the nuanced impact of foreign aid on women in Malawi.