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Perspectives on the Role of Norwegian Gas
(NUPI notat;322, Report, 1985-06) -
Registrering av råolje og naturgass i norsk utenrikshandelsstatistikk
(NUPI notat;326, Report, 1985-07) -
Us Russians versus we Russians: Patriotic discourse and electoral support in Krasnodar Kray
(NUPI Working Paper;604, Research report, 2000) -
Security, integration and identity change
(NUPI Working Paper;611, Working paper, 2000)In this working paper Pernille Rieker attempts to contribute to a better understanding of both how the EU functions as a security system and what kind of impact the integration process has on national security identities. ... -
An Essay on Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Bargaining Approach
(NUPI Working Paper;613, Working paper, 2000)The separation of children from their families have a large number of social and economic aspects. At least the economic aspects are under-researched. At the point of transition of leaving their families somehow the ... -
Family-controlled Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Survey of Research
(NUPI Working Paper;612, Working paper, 2000)The paper presents and analyzes recent research into child labor problems in Africa, mainly made by economists and social anthropologists. It focuses on the labor performed in African households and controlled by the family. -
Foreign Ownership, R&D and Technology Sourcing
(NUPI Working Paper;606, Working paper, 2000)This paper explores the relationship between domestic R&D and the inflow of foreign capital through foreign direct investment and foreign ownership. The idea that firms invest in a foreign country in order to more easily ... -
Patterns of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa : A simple test of the new trade theory with multinationals
(NUPI Working Paper;607, Working paper, 2000)In this study, we present an empirical survey of the patterns of trade and FDI in Africa based on a sample of 28 countries and their transactions with the OECD countries. These patterns are used to test whether the predictions ... -
Forhandlingsmetodikk i WTO : Teoretiske resonnementer
(NUPI Working Paper;610, Working paper, 2000)Notatet klarlegger prinsipielle og praktiske forskjeller mellom de forhandlingsmetoder som har vært og kan komme til å bli brukt i WTO forhandlinger. Resonnementene baserer seg på økonomisk teori og forhandlingsteori. Selv ... -
Integration and Regionalization - a political economic analysis
(NUPI Working Paper;609, Working paper, 2000)This paper examines the incentives for political integration in a situation with a non-excludable public good. The model emphasizes inter-regional differences in sizes and preferences for the public good. In such a two-country ... -
Globalisation and industrial location: The impact of trade policy when geography matters
(NUPI Working Paper;608, Working paper, 2000)The paper shows how industrial location and welfare depends on “most-favoured nation” (MFN) versus distance-related trade barriers, using a monopolistic competition model with regions located along a “Hotelling” line or ... -
Lovely but dangerous: The impact of patent citations on patent duration
(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 ... -
Local Elites meet Foreign Corporations : The Examples of Iran and Azerbaijan
(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 ... -
Linking Issues : Should one bargain over two issues simultaineously or separately?
(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 ... -
Political Priorities and Economic Interests in Russian-Latvian Relations
(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 ... -
Recent Advances in Growth Theory. A Comparison of Neoclassical and Evolutionary Perspectives
(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 ... -
Firms' export decisions - fixed trade costs and the size of the export market
(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 ... -
Meet Me Halfway but don't Rush : Absorptive capacity and strategic R&D investment revisited
(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 ... -
The Europeanisation of Norway's Security Identity
(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 ...