Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Business roles in 1.5 °C transitions: a stakeholder-informed scenario analysis

Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C requires profound transformations of production and consumption systems, yet the role of businesses in enabling such transitions remains insufficiently addressed in scenario-based sustainability research. Existing scenarios often conceptualize fi...

Exposure to remote work and probability of long-distance commuting: evidence from pandemic lockdowns

Abstract In this paper, we investigate how the lockdown-induced exposure to remote work affected the likelihood of switching to longer commutes using a longitudinal full-population register of Swedish employees. We find that employees with little experience of longer commutes wer...

Do coups create economic crises? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

While most of the literature considers economic crisis as a precursor to coup attempts, theoretical considerations suggest that coups may also cause crises. Estimating effects of different types of coups on crisis risk across 32 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean betwee...