On December 17-18th, SITE hosted its annual Academic Conference that brought together international scholars to discuss and showcase what current research tells us about the existing forms of gender inequality worldwide, their causes, and their consequences.

SITE has the pleasure to invite you to a presentation on Wednesday December 12, by Professor Andris Spruds, Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre (SSFC) have the pleasure to invite you to a presentation of the report Making the Global Financial System Work for All on Friday December 14 by Erik Berglöf, London School of Economics and Political Science (former EBRD Chief Economist), and with comments by Karolina Ekholm, Deputy Minister of Finance, and Magnus Lennartsson, Deputy Director General, Global Agenda Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

SITE researchers Anders Olofsgård and Maria Perrotta Berlin won 1.8 MSEK from Vetenskapsrådet for research on the community-level impact of foreign aid-financed interventions.

This year’s SITE Academic Conference – Gender in Economics: From Survival to Career Opportunities, brings together leading international scholars to discuss what current research tells us about the existing forms of gender inequality worldwide, their causes, and their consequences.

How can we encourage consumers to buy more energy efficient cars, houses or appliances? New policy brief by Chloé Le Coq, Associate Professor at SITE, and Rebecca Ly, Research Assistant at SITE, discusses how efficiency of consumer decisions can be improved by changing governmental regulation and market incentives.

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.

Congratulations to SITE Deputy Director Jesper Roine, who has been appointed as Adjunct Professor of Economics, especially the Economics of Inequality, at the Department of Economics at SSE from Oct 2018 to Sept 2020.

Which factors are salient in consumers’ decisions? And how do these factors change by consumer group and product type? Join SITE Energy Talks 2018 – Energy Demand Management: Insights from Behavioral Economics on October 16 to learn more!

What has been going on in the Russian economy under President Putin? And what may the future look like given the external environment, internal challenges and reform processes? New book "The Russian Economy under Putin" is edited by Torbjörn Becker, Director at SITE, and Susanne Oxenstierna, Deputy Research Director at the Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI).