Institution: SITE
Catarina Marvao
Catarina Marvão is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin (2013) and a Double M.Sc. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain and Católica Lisbon (2009).
Her research focuses on industrial organization and international trade and she is particularly interested in antitrust issues, such as detection and prosecution of cartels.
(Last updated November 2016)
Erika Gyllström
Erika Gyllström is an MSc student at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Research Assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics since 2014.
Erik Meyersson
Erik Meyersson is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. Meyersson’s research is in political economics and development, with a particular focus on empirical research. He also has a special interest in the Middle East in general, and Turkey in particular.
Lennart Samuelson
Lennart Samuelson is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) since 2008. He earned his Ph.D. at the Institute for Research in Economic History at the Stockholm School of Economics, in 1996. He was a guest researcher at the National Defence College in 1996-2001 and Waern visiting professor at the Institute for Studies in History at the University of Gothenburg, in 2011-2012.
Samuelson’s research in Russian economic history re-started when the archives opened in 1992. His major research topic is the development of the Soviet military-industrial complex from the 1930s onwards. He has participated in several research projects on Soviet agrarian history of the 1930s, on the Great Terror 1937-38 and the Gulag camp system, and also on Sweden’s relations with the Soviet Union in the Cold War period. His research results have been rewarded by several institutions. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities rewarded its prestigious Rettig Prize in 2014 to Samuelson for his fundamental research and innovative grasp of the Russian archival materials.
On 4 November 2014, for organizing Swedish-Russian economic-historical workshops and conferences at Stockholm School of Economics and Gothenburg university, for arranging study visits for Russian archivists in Stockholm and for Swedish scholars in Moscow, as well as for his spreading knowledge on Russian history to the Swedish public, he was awarded Orden Druzhby (the Friendship Order) by President Vladimir Putin at the National Day ceremony in the Kremlin.
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Giancarlo Spagnolo is a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics since 2006. He is also a research fellow of CEPR, London; and a non-resident fellow of EIEF, Rome. He is also a Professor of Economics at University of Rome II (on leave). He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics, and was Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim, Senior Economist at the Research Division of the Sveriges Riksbank, and founder and head of the Research Unit of the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip SpA).
He is an internationally recognized authority on Antitrust, Public Procurement and Anticorruption issues, and has been consulting on these topics for national and international institutions, including the World Bank, the European Parliament, the European Commission (DG Comp, DG EcFin and DG Markt) and several Antitrust and Procurement Authorities.
(Last updated September 2020)
Elena Paltseva
Elena Paltseva is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Prior to joining SITE, Paltseva has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Her research interests include Political Economics, Industrial Organization, Energy and Resource Economics, and Gender Economics.
(Last updated November 2023)
Chloé Le Coq
Chloé Le Coq is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and a Research Fellow at both SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, and DIW Berlin. She has held visiting positions at Purdue University, the University of California Energy Institute at Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore.
Her research focuses on topics in industrial organization, law and economics, with a particular emphasis on energy markets and their regulation. Recent studies include investigations into nuclear safety, technology-mix competition, discourse patterns among B-Corp certified companies, and energy security challenges.
Chloé Le Coq has co-authored papers with notable researchers such as Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna), Giancarlo Spagnolo (University of Tor Vergata and SITE), and Elena Paltseva (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics). Her work spans energy policy, competition, and antitrust. Key contributions include “Measuring the Security of External Energy Supply in the EU” with Elena Paltseva and “Fines, Leniency, and Rewards in Antitrust” with Maria Bigoni and Giancarlo Spagnolo. She has also contributed to electricity market design with Sebastian Schwenen (Technical University of Munich) and sustainable energy research with Richard Green (Imperial College London).
Beyond energy, Chloé Le Coq’s collaborations with Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris) and Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts Amherst) explore social entrepreneurship and innovation. Her joint work with Alexander K. Wagner (University of Salzburg) and James Tremewan (Tor Vergata University) has advanced research in strategic environments and market behavior.
(Last updated January 2025)
Torbjörn Becker
Torbjörn Becker has been the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden since 2006 and is a board member of several economics research institutes in Eastern Europe.
Prior to this, he worked for nine years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his work focused on international macro, economic crises and issues related to the international financial system. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published in top academic journals and has contributed to several books and policy reports focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe.
(Last updated October 2019)
Anders Olofsgård
Anders Olofsgård is currently Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Before that, he was Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), at Stockholm University, in 2001.
Olofgård’s primary research areas are political economy, development and applied microeconomics, and he has published widely in both economics and political science journals. He has also been a visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF and done work for among others the World Bank, USAID and the Swedish Parliament.
(Last updated November 2019)
Evelina Bonnier
Evelina Bonnier is a Ph.D. candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics and a research assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). She has a M.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm University. Her research interests lie primarily in development economics, applied microeconometrics, behavioral economics, and gender.