NHH professor critical of data centre measures
A licensing scheme for data centres could create extensive bureaucracy, fears NHH professor Øivind A. Nilsen. He believes the authorities should instead use prices and taxation to steer growth.
At the Macro, Risk and Sustainability Centre we study how households, firms, and policy makers interact, and how this affects the aggregate economy. Issues like sustainability, inequality, the Norwegian welfare state, and the use of natural resources are core topics.
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Grant to Øivind A. Nilsen from The Finance Market Fund
Øivind A. Nilsen has received funding from The Finance Market Fund (Finansmarkedet, Norges Forskningsråd) for his project: Financial Market Imperfections and Price Dynamics: Firm-Level Evidence and Aggregate Implications
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.
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.