To gain a rapid estimate of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the Swedish economy and labour market, the Riksbank has expanded its collection and compilation of high-frequency data, known as...

In a new paper, network members Niko Jaakkola and Daniel Spiro with co-authors analyse policies that would jointly address the coronavirus economic crisis and the climate crisis.

A new working paper from Marta Giagheddu and Andrea Papetti illustrates the pros and cons of different combinations of economic shutdown and targeted social distancing with a special focus on the...

In a new peer reviewed study in Health Affairs, Eric Reinhart and Daniel Chen show that being temporarily jailed (a.k.a. jail cycling) is correlated with Covid-19 infection

Combining ideas from several fields of mathematics - tropical geometry, Perron-Frobenius theory, probability and optimisation, transport PDE in population dynamics - a new study provides an algorithm...

A new report written by an expert group chaired by Steinar Holden and commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health assesses the socio-economic effects of infection control and prevention...

How effective are restrictions on geographic mobility in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic?

As part of our quest to make study of methodologies widely accessible, the Methods Lab involves itself in the co-creation of events worldwide. From conferences to open seminars, our events are for...

A new working paper by network member Flavio Toxvaerd, together with Robert Rowthorn considers a SIR model of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 or swine flu, in which costly treatment or...

Sweden, a global pioneer in climate action, has embarked on a journey of carbon pricing. This strategy has yielded remarkable results. Since introducing its first carbon tax in 1991, Sweden has...