Browsing Publikasjoner fra Cristin - NUPI by Issue Date
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Transition from socialism - the corruption heritage
(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 ... -
Geography and growth - some empirical evidence
(NUPI Working Paper;623, Working paper, 2002)Income in the world does not distribute randomly in space. There are geographic clusters of rich and poor countries. Also growth rates tend to be spatially clustered. Spatial regression analyses indicate that geographical ... -
Exit Neo-Nazism : Reducing Recruitment and Promoting Disengagement from Racist Groups
(NUPI Working Paper;627, Working paper, 2002)Young persons belonging to various types of right-wing extremist groups commit a large proportion of xenophobic and racist attacks. Measures against racial violence should therefore include interventions that reduce and ... -
Sunk costs in the exporting activity: Implications for international trade and specialisation
(NUPI Working Paper;634, Working paper, 2002)International trade costs may be sunk and not proportional to sales. The paper explores this theoretically, by allowing firms to invest in sales channels or marketing in order to increase demand in each market. The returns ... -
Norway as an Allied Activist - Prestige and Pennance through Peace
(NUPI Working Paper;637, Working paper, 2002)According to a standard view, popular among Norwegian commentators and historians, Norway’s foreign relations after World War II are like a pendulum swinging from side to side, between national interests and national values, ... -
Remarks on Private-to-private corruption
(NUPI Working Paper;635, Working paper, 2002)The OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention may be regarded as the strongest international expression of the recent recognition of corruption as a major global issue. The convention aims to contain trans-border corruption by making ... -
Bokanmeldelse: Globalisering, næringslokalisering og økonomisk politikk
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French, UK, and US Policies to Support Peacekeeping in Africa: Current Status and Future Prospects
(NUPI Working Paper;622, Working paper, 2002)In May 1997, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced their joint “P-3 Initiative”, to harmonize their peacekeeping capacity-building programs in Africa and foster an open dialogue between donors and ... -
Multinationals Searching for R&D Spillovers : A Survey of the Literature
(NUPI Working Paper;629, Working paper, 2002)This paper surveys the literature on R&D and technology spillovers as a motive for FDI. During the last years, a growing body of theoretical studies has generated formal arguments supporting the economic rationale for such ... -
From Apparatchik to President – From Businessman to Khan: Regime Transition and Consolidation in the Russian Republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia
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Sivil-militær splittelse og amerikansk sikkerhetspolitikk
(NUPI Working Paper;625, Working paper, 2002)Opp gjennom 1990-årene utviklet det seg en betydelig avstand mellom de militære og viktige deler av USAs politiske elite, noe som hadde merkbare konsekvenser for den sikkerhetspolitiske beslutningsprosessen. Særlig tydelig ... -
Rammevilkår for norsk fiskeeksport
(NUPI Working Paper;640, Working paper, 2002)I en spørreundersøkelse ble 81 norske sjømateksportører også bedt om å kommentere ulike rammevilkår for eksporten. Dette notat oppsummerer resultatene fra denne del av undersøkelsen, uten å gjennomføre en full evaluering ... -
Industrial heterogeneity of the ICT industry : An exploratory survey on Norwegian firms
(NUPI Working Paper;641, Working paper, 2002)The paper presents evidence from a limited survey undertaken among Norwegian ICT firms in 2001, supplemented with other statistical evidence. Corresponding to the limited production of ICT hardware in Norway, the hardware ... -
Learning, Networks and Sunk Costs in International trade: Evidence form Norwegian Seafood Exports
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Components of Naval Nuclear Fuel Transparency
(NUPI Rapport;269, Research report, 2002) -
International R&D Spillovers and the Absorptive Capacity of Multinationals
(NUPI Working Paper;628, Working paper, 2002)This paper studies R&D spillovers as a motive for firms to go multinational. The establishment of a foreign subsidiary may increase a firm’s ability to learn from foreign R&D activity since R&D spillovers between firms are ... -
Kan valg av eksportmarked forklares med teorien om investeringer under usikkerhet? En økonomisk studie av atferden til norske fiskeeksportører
(NUPI Working Paper;624, Working paper, 2002)I denne artikkelen gjøres det rede for hvordan nye teorier for investeringer under usikkerhet kan anvendes til å forklare bedrifters eksportbeslutninger. Det gis en empirisk analyse basert på eksportadferden til norske ... -
Hegemonens hamskifte : Bush, 11. september og amerikansk utenrikspolitikk
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Strengthening Cooperative Threat Reduction with Russia : The Norwegian Experience
(NUPI Working Paper;633, Working paper, 2002)Many nuclear safety and security challenges remain in Northwest Russia. Years of international cooperation – and substantial funding – are required to deal with the legacy of the extensive nuclear activities of the Cold ... -
På hvilke områder har Norge best forutsetninger for å bidra til å styrke det nordiske forsvarssamarbeidet? Rapport til Forsvarskommisjonen, juni 2022.
(Research report, 2002)Rapport levert til Forsvarskommisjonen i juni 2022.