Foreign companies dominate data centre capacity
`As more and more players compete for scarce Norwegian electricity, we need to ask which data centres Norway actually benefits from´, says NHH Professor Øivind A. Nilsen.
Department of Economics
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Research news
Norges Bank could take on greater responsibility for Oil Fund ethics
An expert committee recommends giving Norges Bank greater responsibility for following up companies in the fund’s portfolio.
EquiFirm 2026
From 10–11 September 2026, NHH hosted the third workshop, “Gender Diversity in Organisations and Careers”, organized by Astrid Kunze (NHH) and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex, Affiliate Professor at NHH). This was the third workshop in a series of events connected to the research grant “Challenges in rapidly changing labor markets: Human capital, firms, and family policy” (EquiFirm), funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) for the period 2021–2027 and led by PI Astrid Kunze.
Discrimination, competition and trust
On Friday 16 October Ethan Connor O’Leary will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Events at the Department
- Macro, Risk and Sustainability Seminar with Maria Olsson Wage Rigidity and the Equilibrium Relationship Between Wages and Hours Worked
- Macro, Risk and Sustainability Seminar with: Andreas Fagereng
- Micro Seminar with: Jiekai Zhang
- Micro Seminar with: Oscar Jara
- Micro Seminar with: Ricardo Ribeiro
Latest publications
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Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden: |
The Quarterly Journal of Economics | |
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"Shackleton's Unexpected Arrival in Stromness, South Georgia, 20 May 1916" |
Polar Record | |
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Krishna Srinivasan, Justin Valasek and Weijia Wang: |
"Fairness Perceptions of Redistribution and Predistribution" |
Journal of Public Economics |
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Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon: |
"Estimating Grain Storage with Probate Inventories: Kent and Cornwall, 1600-1750" |
Explorations in Economic History |
Working papers
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"Selfish Equality" |
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Malte Baader, Kai Barron, Anna Hochleitner and Jonas Kaiser: |
"The Stories We Tell: Societal Narratives and Support for the Far Right" |
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Zichen Deng and Runxi Niu: |
"Where Emissions Travel: A Source-Receptor Approach to Evaluating Environmental Policy" |
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Alexander W. Cappelen, Shachar Kariv, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden and William R. Zame: |
"Revealed Normative Principles" |