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SITE Corruption conference will host distinguished scholars
17 August 2015
The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE) has the pleasure to invite you to the SITE Academic conference "Fighting Corruption in Developing and Transition Countries".
Russia plans new gas supply routes to Europe sidestepping Ukraine
03 August 2015
Chloé Le Coq, an assistant professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, comments about Russia’s plans to build a new offshore gas pipeline across the Black Sea and Turkey on financial daily news service Dagens industri.
Presentation order can be a powerful determinant of choice in a list-based environment
14 July 2015
New research paper by Ina Ganguli, affiliated researcher at SITE and assistant professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, published by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) sheds light on how order in the list of economics papers in a weekly email newsletter can affect the viewing and citation rate of scientific research papers.
It's good to be first: order bias in reading and citing NBER working papers
08 July 2015
by Ina Ganguli (with Daniel R. Feenberg, Patrick Gaule and Jonathan Gruber), NBER Working paper
Siemiatkowski and Stenbeck boost entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Economics
07 July 2015
The payment service company Klarna started in 2005 at the Stockholm School of Economics. Now Sebastian Siemiatkowski returns to the incubator SSE Business Lab as chairman of a new Advisory Board consisting of, among others, Cristina Stenbeck (Kinnevik), Katarina Martinson (Lundbergföretagen), Sebastian Knutsson (King.com) and Mikael Schiller (Acne Studios).
His interest in music made him start lunch concerts at SSE
01 July 2015
Victor Bao is a second year Bachelor student with a great interest in music which is why he initiated the lunch concerts in the schools Atrium this spring.
Stockholm is the second most successful tech hub in the world
30 June 2015
Sweden is a world leader in technology, only beaten by Silicon Valley according to an article in The Telegraph.
Distinguished scholars and practitioners discuss finance for sustainable development
30 June 2015
SITE has published a policy brief that covers a discussion on how to reduce extreme poverty by incentivizing private aid and private investment in developing countries and secure development finance to fragile states.
'Drowning Sailors' - new art installation at SSE
29 June 2015
Dissertation defense by Henning Christner
26 June 2015
On June 12, Henning Christner from the Department of Accounting successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation entitled “The Valuable Organisation: A Study of How Activities are Calculated, Controlled and Made Valuable” . The discussant was Professor Kari Lukka, University of Turku.