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03.05.13
  • Medin, Hege , Per Botolf Maurseth (2013). Market specific fixed and sunk export costs: The impact of learning and spillovers. NUPI Working Paper: 817. 59 pages. This paper provides evidence for market specific sunk export costs by investigating Norwegian seafood exporters’ persistence in different export markets.
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    03.04.13
  • Schia, Niels Nagelhus (2013). Horseshoe and Catwalk – Power and Complexity in the United Nations Security Council. NUPI Working Paper: 816. 14 pages. This working paper is part of a project in which the author aims to explain why peacebuilding is a cumbersome and not always successful project by investigating power relations in the UN (United Nations) and the complexity of this organization. The working paper also discusses to what extent and how anthropology can extract the general from the unique - the notion of generalizability.
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    28.02.13
  • Rieker, Pernille , Tom O. Johnsen (2013). The EEA and Norway Grants: Source of Norwegian influence or soft power?. NUPI Working Paper: 815. 37 pages. For nearly 20 years, Norway has contributed financially to less wealthy EU countries. Should the Grants simply be understood as an act of solidarity? Or do the financial contributions serve as a source of soft power providing increased influence in the EU?
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    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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