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nupi.no Publications Working Papers 2012
30.01.13
  • Schia, Niels Nagelhus (2012). Consensus making in the United Nations Security Council : how informal processes may enforce inequality. NUPI Working Paper: 814. 32 pages. How do small states behave once they have a seat at the table? Based on anthropological fieldwork, the author describes how one small state – Norway – operated during its previous membership of the United Nations Security Council.
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    11.12.12
  • Andvig, Jens Chr (2012). Public procurement and organized crime: – illustrated with examples from Bulgaria, Italy and Norway. NUPI Working Paper: 813. 36 pages. The paper provides a semi-popular exposition of the formulation of public procurement and privatization mechanisms and how they may be influenced by organized crime units. A number of possibilities are outlined using examples from Bulgaria, Italy and Norway.
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    12.12.12
  • Brita Bye, Taran Fæhn (2012). Innovative and absorptive capacity effects of education in a small, open economy. NUPI Working Paper: 812. 44 pages. In a growth model for Norway, the authors find that increasing the share of highly educated workers has pronounced absorptive capacity effects that partially crowd out R&D-based innovation. Both innovative and absorptive capacity expansions contribute to higher growth and welfare.
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    12.12.12
  • Brita Bye, Taran Fæhn (2012). Flere forskere – mer forskning?. NUPI Working Paper: 811. 19 pages. I artikkelen undersøker forfatterne om økt tilgang på forskningsrelevant kompetanse er et effektivt virkemiddel for øke norsk næringslivs forskning og utvikling til to prosent av BNP.
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    23.11.12
  • Reichborn-Kjennerud, Erik , Karsten Friis , Harald Håvoll (2012). Revising COIN: The Stakeholder Centric Approach. NUPI Working Paper: 810. 32 pages. As the international counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Afghanistan draws to a close, the utility of this approach to war-fighting is being questioned and increasingly challenged. The article argues that despite certain flaws, both in doctrine and implementation, there are important insights from COIN worth maintaining. It argues that COIN should be revised, not scrapped.
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    04.10.12
  • Castellacci, Fulvio (2012). Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America. NUPI Working Paper: 809. 41 pages. The paper presents an empirical analysis of the innovative activities of business groups in Latin America.
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    05.12.12
  • Meenakshi Rajeev, Manojit Bhattacharjee (2012). Access to Financial Services: Are Poor Excluded?: A Case Study of India . NUPI Working Paper: 808. 22 pages. While access to financial resources is critical for the very survival of the self employed poor in adeveloping country like India, this paper shows that the poor often depend on informal lenders with unfavourable terms and conditions.
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    19.10.12
  • M.S. Umesh Babu, Sunil Nautiyal (2012). Socioeconomic and Ecological Consequences of Biofuel Development in India. NUPI Working Paper: 807. 18 pages. This paper provides an overview on biofuel production and its pros and cons in India and elsewhere. The paper also discusses the major issue of whether biofuels are an alternative to fossil fuels or are a competitive for food production.
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    28.08.12
  • Melchior, Arne (2012). World Trade 1970-2010: Globalisation, Regionalisation and Reallocation. NUPI Working Paper: 805. 30 pages. Using data for more than 200 countries, split into nine regions, NUPI researchers study world trade in goods during 1970-2010. The largest changes are the declining relative importance of Western Europe, and the increasing role for Asia.
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    01.08.12
  • Lenka Filipova (2012). Are attitudes conducive to economic growth stronger in protestants than in others?: Investigation into values and attitudes as channels through which culture can affect economic outcomes. NUPI Working Paper: 804. 38 pages. This paper investigates the impact of religious denominations on values and attitudes that are thought to be conducive to economic growth and are usually pronounced in favor of Protestants.
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    01.08.12
  • Maurseth, Per Botolf, Hege Medin (2012). Market specific fixed and sunk export costs: The impact of learning and spillovers . NUPI Working Paper: 803. 65 pages. This paper provides evidence for market specific sunk export costs by investigating Norwegian seafood exporters’ persistence in different export markets. Having exported to a market last year doubles the probability of exporting this year. There is also evidence for learning effects and for spillovers effects from other firms on export costs.
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    29.06.12
  • Rieker, Pernille (2012). Integration, Security and Associated Non-members: The EU as a Regional Security Provider. NUPI Working Paper: 802. 34 pages. The EU promotes security and stability through the externalization of rules and values through various processes, association agreements and neighbourhood policies, Pernille Rieker argues in this working paper.
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    29.05.12
  • Castellacci, Fulvio , Martin Blom, Arne Martin Fevolden (2012). The trade-off between Innovation and Defence Industrial Policy: A Simulation Model Analysis of the Norwegian Defence Industry. NUPI Working Paper: 801. 36 pages. This paper investigates the trade-off between innovation and defence industrial policy. It presents an agent-based simulation model calibrated for the Norwegian defence industry that compares different policy scenarios and examines the effects of a pending EU market liberalization process.
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    24.04.12
  • Maurseth, Per Botolf, Svensson, Roger (2012). International patenting. NUPI Working Paper: 800. 39 pages. International patenting is increasing in importance. In this article, Mauseth and Svennsson indicate that the propensity to apply for international patent protection increases with indicators of the value of the invention, indictors of technological rivalry, and market size in the markets where patent applications are submitted.
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    13.04.12
  • Castellacci, Fulvio , Jose Miguel Natera (2012). Innovation, Absorptive Capacity and Complexity along Development Stages. NUPI Working Paper: 799. 63 pages. The paper presents an empirical analysis of the time series properties of Schumpeterian multiple equilibria models.
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    25.04.12
  • Hilde Eliassen Restad (2012). The War on Terror from Bush to Obama: On Power and Path Dependency. NUPI Working Paper: 798. 52 pages. In this NUPI report Hilde Restad examines the recent and ongoing executive efforts associated with fighting international terrorism.
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    22.02.12
  • Brian Perry (2012). The structure and dynamics of cut flower export markets from Kenya and Ethiopia : - with particular reference to trade with Norway. NUPI Working Paper: 797. 26 pages. This working paper analyses the financial potential for flower export in Keny and Ethiopia. The study is part of a broad study of trade preferences and market conditions between various developing countries and Norway.
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    22.02.12
  • Melchior, Arne , Karl Rich, Brian Perry (2012). A case study of Norway’s beef trade from developing countries. NUPI Working Paper: 796. 31 pages. This working paper provides information on Norway’s beef trade in the context of GSP.
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    03.02.12
  • Castellacci, Fulvio , Arne Fevolden (2012). Capable Companies or Changing Markets?: Explaining the Export Performance of Firms in the Defence Industry. NUPI Working Paper: 795. 43 pages. The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector of Norway.
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