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Pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic: Air quality in Eastern Europe
16 February 2021
Policy brief: The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to a pre-existing threat to global health: the quality of air in cities around the world. Prolonged exposure to air pollution has been found to increase the mortality rate of COVID-19. This is a particular concern for much of Eastern Europe, where emissions regularly exceed safe levels.
New research: what determines innovation performance at the micro-foundations level?
22 January 2021
New research on innovation suggests that employees that are curious about mastering their workplace, and that desire to work more effectively, will have a higher ability to find useful information in the global marketplace and commercialize it.
SITE researcher awarded 3,3 MSEK grant for a research project on 鈥淪trategic risk, artificial intelligence and collusive crime鈥
14 January 2021
SITE's Professor Giancarlo Spagnolo together with co-authors in University of Bologna and Standford University has been granted 3,3 MSEK in funding by Vetenskapsr氓det for a three-year research project on artificial intelligence as incorporated in pricing algorithms.
Highlights from Development Day 2020: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe
21 December 2020
After having been relatively mildly affected in the first wave, Eastern Europe is currently in the midst of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with much higher levels of infected and dead compared to the spring. This health crisis not only has economic consequences, but also has contributed to political instability in parts of the region. Learn more on the presentations and discussions held at the SITE Development Day conference 2020!
MECON student awarded first prize in the Swedish Competition Authority鈥檚 thesis competition
16 December 2020
Filip Mellgren was awarded first prize in this year鈥檚 thesis competition at the Swedish Competition Authority in the business administration and economics category for his thesis 鈥淭acit collusion with deep multi-agent reinforcement learning鈥.
Was Sweden's Covid-19 policy a failure?
10 December 2020
Sweden's strategy to deal with Covid-19 has been intensively debated both in Sweden and internationally during the spring. As the second wave of Covid-19 hit Sweden during the fall, the debate about the Swedish policy response has intensified.
Why are people afraid to bid for a house that nobody else has been bidding for?
24 November 2020
That's one of the questions that Tore Ellingsen answers in this feature article on auctions - in the aftermath of the Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Paul Milgrom (an honorary doctor at SSE) and Robert Wilson.
Anna Dreber Almenberg interviewed in Universitetsläraren
18 November 2020
What happens when the same data is given to a number of researchers who are asked to test the same hypotheses?
Tore Ellingsen interviewed in DN
16 November 2020
What should be the goal of Sweden's fiscal policy after the pandemic?
HOI research | Growth intentions in family-based new venture teams
22 September 2020
Business success, especially for entrepreneurs who are just starting out, is often measured in terms of new venture growth. Unfortunately, this kind of growth can be hard to achieve for entrepreneurs who don鈥檛 have access to many resources.