What accounts for Sweden’s high COVID death rate among the Nordics? One factor could be Sweden’s lighter lockdown. But … we suggest 15 other possible factors. Most significant are:(1) the “dry-tinder” situation in Sweden (we suggest that this … factor alone accounts for 25 to 50% of Sweden's COVID death toll); (2) Stockholm’s larger population; (3) Sweden’s higher …

subsidies to output is largest for dairy farms in Denmark and Southern, Central and Northern Sweden …

Norway, Finland and Denmark seem particularly vulnerable as do disadvantaged groups of upper secondary school students in all … access to digital technology. Overall, Sweden stands out as having kept compulsory schools open to a greater extent than the …

five countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are culturally closely aligned and combine a well …