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Elite perceptions of ethical problems facing the Western oil industry in Iran

Heradstveit, Daniel (NUPI Rapport;258, Research report, 2001)

The hybrid of democratic and theocratic institutions of revolutionary Iran is now over twenty years old, and is undergoing challenge. An elected president with popular legitimacy but no control of the means of coercion is ...

Local Elites meet Foreign Corporations : The Examples of Iran and Azerbaijan

Heradstveit, Daniel (NUPI Working Paper;617, Working paper, 2001)

Oil companies have jumped on the bandwagon of promotion of democracy and human rights, but without sufficient expertise in local conditions. What works in one country may backfire in another. Azeri democrats want the oil ...

The Europeanisation of Norway's Security Identity

Rieker, Pernille (NUPI Working Paper;619, Working paper, 2001)

In this working paper Pernille Rieker looks into the relationship between the European integration process and changes in Norway’s national security identity. Has the dominant national discourse on security changed since ...

Political Priorities and Economic Interests in Russian-Latvian Relations

Spruds, Andris (NUPI Working Paper;620, Working paper, 2001)

The paper focuses on interaction of political and economic aspects in Russian-Latvian relations. During the most of the 1990´s, the relationship was dominated by the «conflict manifestation,» which could be witnessed during ...

Meet Me Halfway but don't Rush : Absorptive capacity and strategic R&D investment revisited

Grünfeld, Leo A. (NUPI Working Paper;621, Working paper, 2001)

In this paper, we analyse how R&D investment decisions are affected by R&D spillovers between firms, taking into consideration that more R&D investment improves the ability to learn from competing firms - the so-called ...

Recent Advances in Growth Theory. A Comparison of Neoclassical and Evolutionary Perspectives

Maurseth, Per Botolf (NUPI Working Paper;615, Working paper, 2001)

Research on economic growth has experienced remarkable progress the last decade. The neoclassical perspective has benefited from development of new mathematical methods and new approaches to market structure, economics of ...

Lovely but dangerous: The impact of patent citations on patent duration

Maurseth, Per Botolf (NUPI Working Paper;614, Working paper, 2001)

What is the impact of patent citations on patent renewal behaviour? Patent citations are commonly used as an indicator of technology spillovers. For cited patents therefore, patent citations have a potentially ambiguous ...

Firms' export decisions - fixed trade costs and the size of the export market

Medin, Hege (NUPI Working Paper;618, Working paper, 2001)

This article presents two models of international trade under monopolistic competition. In increasing returns sectors firms face fixed, in addition to variable, trade costs, therefore both exporters and non-exporters may ...

Linking Issues : Should one bargain over two issues simultaineously or separately?

Harstad, Bård Gjul (NUPI Working Paper;616, Working paper, 2001)

International negotiations on trade (e.g. GATT and TRIPS) have typically been of the packageform, and different issues have therefore been linked to each other. Trade issues have not been linked to e.g. environmental ...

Russisk-samisk politikk på 1990-tallet, og dens sovjetiske forhistorie

Øverland, Indra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)

Foreign Direct Investment in Norway’s Manufacturing Sector

Kvinge, Torunn; Narula, Rajneesh (NUPI Rapport;268, Research report, 2001)

This report investigates the location advantages of the Norwegian manufacturing industry while focusing on economic as well as institutional factors. The economy relies highly on the exploitation of natural resources and ...

Corruption. A review of contemporary research

Andvig, Jens Christopher; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Amundsen, Inge; Sissener, Tone Kristin; Søreide, Tina (NUPI Report;268, Research report, 2001)

This report is an overview of contemporary research on corruption. The main objectives of the study have been to organise existing knowledge on corruption, discuss the major controversies within and across disciplines and ...

Selvforståelse og rolleforventning under ulike regimer: En studie av den russiske intelligentsiaens før og etter kommunismens fall sett i lys av Zygmunt Baumans og Pierre Bourdieus kultursosiologi

Flæte, Jan (NUPI Rapport;260, Research report, 2001)

Denne studien undersøker rollemønstre og selvforståelse som intellektuelle utvikler under henholdsvis et totalitært og et demokratisk regime. Mer bestemt rettes søkelyset mot den intellektuelle forstått som en samfunnskritiker, ...

Bulwark, Bridge, or Periphery? Polish discourse on Poland and Europe

Haaland, Hege (NUPI Rapport;263, Research report, 2001)

After the Communist regime started crumbling in 1989, the official foreign policy of Poland has been redefined. A central characteristic in this process has been Polish involvement in the process of European integration ...

Bokanmeldelse: Globalisering, næringslokalisering og økonomisk politikk

Medin, Hege (Journal article, 2002)

Transition from socialism - the corruption heritage

Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;636, Working paper, 2002)

The paper explores the apparently high incidence of corruption in those former socialist countries where the Communist Party lost power. It argues that part of the explanation of the high corruption incidence is to be ...

Virkninger for norsk fiskerinæring av en ny forhandlingsrunde i WTO : Simulerte reduksjoner i handelsrestriksjoner i den internasjonale likevektsmodellen GTAP

Wiig, Henrik (NUPI Working Paper;638, Working paper, 2002)

En ny forhandlingsrunde i WTO kan medføre betydelige tollreduksjoner for fiskerinæringen. Dette vil bedre eksportmulighetene for Norge i mange markeder, men samtidig undergrave den tollfordel Norge har i EU-markedet i ...