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Russian Exporters in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

By Natalia Tsybuleva and Natalya Volchkova

This brief summarizes the results of recent work on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Russian exporting companies…

Female Representativeness and Covid-19 Policy Responses: Political Representation and Social Representativeness

There is anecdotal evidence that countries with female leadership in policymaking are more efficient in combating the Co…

Dimensions of Well-being

By Svante Strömberg

This brief summarizes the insights shared in the online workshop "Dimensions of Well-being", where participants presente…

Vaccination Progress and the Opening Up of Economies

By Anders Olofsgård and Svante Strömberg

In this brief, we report on the FREE network webinar on the state of vaccinations and the challenges ahead for opening u…

Did the Government Help Belarusian SMEs to Survive in 2020?

By Radzivon Marozau and Viyaleta Panasevich

Capitalizing on the dataset obtained from five waves of the Covideconomy Project business survey, we explore how pandemi…

Inequality in the Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden

By Pamela Campa , Jesper Roine and Svante Strömberg

Most reports on the labor-market effects of the first wave of COVID-19 have pointed to women, low-skilled workers and ot…

Laissez-faire Covid-19: Economic Consequences in Belarus

By Kateryna Bornukova , Lev Lvovskiy and Gleb Shymanovich

Despite its traditional paternalistic role, the Belarusian government chose minimal reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. N…

Understanding Russia’s GDP Numbers in the COVID-19 Crisis

By Torbjörn Becker

Russia’s real GDP fell by a modest 3 percent in 2020. The question addressed here is how a major oil-exporting country c…