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Sustainable packaging and consumer behavior at Systembolaget

28 September 2022
Systembolaget retail club had a workshop about how to encourage consumers to choose sustainable packaging.

Development of the LYKO-app

28 September 2022
Lyko had a workshop about how the firm can develop an app and what should be in it in order to attract customers/users.

Forskare: ”Folk jobbar även när de inte är kontrollerade”

28 September 2022
Efter pandemin vill de flesta fortsätta arbeta hemifrån, visar en ny internationell studie. Enligt Lena Lid Falkman, forskare i arbetslivsvetenskap, visar forskning att hemarbete främjar både produktivitet och effektivietet.– Det är den stora myten vi har spräckt, folk jobbar även när de inte är kontrollerade. De levererar hemifrån, säger hon till SVT.

Metaverse at Accenture

27 September 2022
Accenture held a theme lecture in the applied retail track labelled Metaverse X Retail.

Higher education and research in times of war and peace: Key insights from the 2022 FREE Network conference

26 September 2022
Russia’s war on Ukraine entails lost human capital, both in actual lives lost and due to major disruptions to key functions of the society, such as education and research. In light of this, the FREE Network, together with the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA) and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), hosted the public conference “Higher Education and Research in War and Peace“ in Warsaw on the 10th of September 2022. This policy brief is based on the presentations and panel discussions held during the conference.

Gender salary gap in the auditing profession: Trend and explanations

22 September 2022
New research from the Department of Accounting examines the gender salary gap in the auditing profession in Sweden.

Sixtensson on Homer's Odyssey

21 September 2022
Fredrik Sixtensson, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, participates in panel on Homer's classic work.

Great research potential within socially labelled financing

21 September 2022
Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall has recently written a third report on the market for social bonds and social outcome contracts and is looking forward to continuing her research in socially labelled financing. She appreciates the development of the social sustainability labelled financial market in the Nordic countries and is hoping for an even greater interest.

How randomized control trials can make the world a better place

20 September 2022
What programs and initiatives actually make a difference for integration, education and health? How do we know what works so we can put our effort and money where they are the most effective? That’s what Associate Professor Martina Björkman Nyqvist’s research is all about. Hear more about it in the latest episode of Sound Economy.

Foreign aid to Ukraine: Lessons from the literature on strategic foreign aid

19 September 2022
Ukraine is currently receiving substantial inflows of foreign aid from western donors to help the country withstand the Russian aggression. The foreign aid flows partly reflect altruistic motives from the donor side, but also donor’s domestic strategic foreign policy objectives as the war is seen as part of a battle over the future world order. In this brief, Anders Olofsgård, discuss the academic literature that has analysed the existence and consequences of strategic motivations behind aid flows more generally, and draw some preliminary insights for the case of Ukraine.