139 projects

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PESORDNING-PESORDNING

PES - ERC AdG 2025

Support the preparation of the ERC AdG application through an external review to provide additional feedback on the content, as well as the structure and delivery of the proposal’s message. If the proposal is invited to the interview stage, the the PI will be supported through different activitie...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

The International Association of Maritime Economists Conference 2025 hosted by NHH

The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) is set to host the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) conference in 2025. This event marks an important milestone in both NHH’s and Bergen’s longstanding maritime tradition, as it will be the first time the conference is held in Norway....

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Et mangfoldig og inkluderende nettverk på NHH

Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the core of NHH's strategy 2022-2025: Together for sustainable value creation. The strategy emphasizes that human resources shall be at the center. NHH shall promote diversity along all dimensions, with particular emphasis on international diversity and ge...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Media Bias and Political Polarization

The project tries to understand how different reporting strategies by newspapers affect news demand, belief updating, and political polarization. The research employs cutting-edge methods like large-scale information provision experiments, app data on news consumption linked to survey responses, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

FINANSMARKED-FINANSMARKED

2nd Tax Transparency Conference

NoCeT and NHH organized the second tax transparency conference, which was a joint with TRR266 Accounting for Transparency and Fair Tax Foundation. The event took place on December 3, 2024. Tax avoidance and evasion is a global problem which deprives governments and society as a whole of the subst...

Awarded: NOK 29,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Firm power, worker power, and the structure of labor markets

The power dynamics of the employment relationship are shifting. On the one hand, employers are growing larger and occupy increasing shares of labor markets. On the other hand, employees are organizing labor to a much smaller extent and unions are covering different types of workers. These changes...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

PES 2023-2024

NHH 2022-2025 strategy documents state that NHH shall be a research-intensive business school with research at a high international level, and more specifically NHH shall have a research-active faculty that produces high-quality research and cutting-edge expertise at the highest international lev...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Freedom to Choose

Summary of Research Contributions: The FREE Project The FREE project explores how perceptions of freedom and responsibility shape economic behavior. It is organized into three work packages (WPs), each addressing distinct but complementary dimensions of the relationship between freedom, fairness,...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2029

Location: Vestland

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner 2

NHH shipping conference - LeaderSHIP 2022 8th November

As a business school, one of the key mandates of the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) is to have an impact in Norwegian society and our key industries. As part of our effort to disseminate relevant and applied research to the industry, NHH has a long-standing tradition of arranging annual ship...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

FINANSMARK-Finansmarkedet

Home equity and private firm financing

We study small and medium-sized businesses with up to three shareholders to analyze whether the owners increase the mortgage on their house to finance new equity in the business. We find that this happens to a significant extent, and furthermore that the company subsequently experiences important...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

SKATT-Skatteøkonomi

12th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics

The 12th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics is another joint initiative of CESifo, NoCeT, and OFS, takes place in Munich, Germany, and brings together about 25 researchers (plus, if possible, some local non-presenting participants from the CESifo network in Munich). Traditionally, there...

Awarded: NOK 95,000

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Intra-household resource allocation and targeted transfers

Many welfare programs in both low- and high-income countries transfer resources to women in the household rather than to men. A well-known example is the Norwegian child benefit, which is automatically paid to the child’s mother regardless of either parent’s participation in the labor market or t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

SAMFUNN-SAMFUNN

When macro meets micro: Global challenges and heterogeneous responses in Norway

As a small, open economy, Norway has always been exposed to global economic developments. Climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and a sharp decrease in oil prices pose specific challenges to the Norwegian economy and the sustainability of the welfare state. Although most signs suggest that oil ha...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Vestland

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Business model innovation and Ecosystems for Seamless Transactions in Retail (BEST in Retail)

The introduction of digital technology in retail has increased customers' expectations for online shopping and in-store experience. Customers expect more relevant information, higher service levels, on-demand self-service, and personal interaction in a multi-channel shopping solution. Meeting the...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

FINANSMARKED-FINANSMARKED

Benefit corporations

A Benefit Corporation (henceforth a ``B Corp'') is a for-profit corporation that integrates the interests of stakeholders beyond shareholders into the firm's corporate charter. In particular, the charter differs from the traditional firm in that it is designed to permit the board to implement ESG...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Challenges to shaping an inclusive work-life in rapidly changing labour markets: Firms, Human capital, and Family policy

Governments have implemented policies to address gender disparities and the underrepresentation of women in power, yet equality remains. Significant funds are allocated to social and family policies to promote welfare and equality. Most research and policy reports focus on individual outcomes, ov...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

BALANSE-Kjønnsbalanse i toppstillinger og forskningsledelse

CHALLENGE: Meeting the Challenge to Change the Culture

There is an under-representation of women, both at NHH and in leading business positions in general. The under-representation is greater the closer you get to the top of the career ladder. CHALLENGE will address the career progression inequality by proposing a series of measures that aims at infl...

Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestland

PES-HORISONT-EU-PES Horisont Europa

PES 2021-2022 NHH

NHH aims to strengthen its participation in Horizon Europe. To achieve this aim, NHH has set 3 sub-aims which articulate the activities proposed in this project. Briefly, we aim at building among the general academic staff a stronger understanding of the European research framework programs and t...

Awarded: NOK 0.77 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Vestland

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner 2

NHH Shipping Conference - LeaderShip 2021

The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) has a long-standing tradition of arranging annual shipping conferences. The 2018 and 2019 conferences, sponsored in part by RCN, was a success with around 180 attendees and high-level speakers such as the Norwegian minister of industry and the CEO of the No...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2021

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Kunstig intelligens i Business (KIB)

Norway is currently in a fascinating phase of transformation, where traditional resource-based industries are increasingly complemented by digital services. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) play a pivotal role in this transition, with the potential to drive value crea...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

C4: COVID-19 and Human Capital: Cataclysm and Catalyzer

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant consequences for many Norwegian companies, and thus also for many Norwegian workers. A central question is how Norwegian companies respond to a shock of this type. To what extent do they respond by cutting investments in physical capital, skills, reducing...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Networking activities and PhD courses strengthening the research team at CCF

Center for Corporate Finance (CCF) provides an arena for researchers interested in corporate finance to interact and collaborate. By offering a stimulating and demanding environment for high-quality research, CCF has developed a strong research group in corporate finance. The research group at CC...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Sømløse transaksjoner for bedre kundeopplevelser

The recent wave of digitalization in the retail sector, which emerged with the growth of e-commerce and internet-connected digital technologies, is heavily disrupting traditional business models. This disruption is driven by two factors. First, it opens for new forms of competition from abroad an...

Awarded: NOK 4,324

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Skatt og velferdsstatens finansiering

This project has funded expanded contact with foreign researchers, organized a conference and doctoral courses, which have collectively contributed to network effects and higher research quality. These initiatives have enhanced the quality of research at the center and increased interaction with ...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Transportation, logistics, energy and green business finance

The project is focused on a sustainable future in the transportation sector by combining research in transport and logistics with research in energy markets and green finance. In our view one cannot fully understand sustainability in transport and logistics without understanding how energy market...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Global Challenges, Sustainability, and the Welfare State - Perspectives from Labor, Behavioral and Macroeconomics

Norway is a small, open, and resource-based economy where global changes in oil prices, exchange rate volatility, and other international shocks affect the economy and societal well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic and high energy prices are examples of such shocks that have significantly impacted th...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Support for network-related activities that promote scientific development and renewal within the Center for Business Economics

CBE is a research group in the fields of microeconomics and industrial organisation focusing on how different firms and organisations are affected by their economic environment, and how they set prices, quantity and quality on the goods and services they offer. Within these research areas, the in...

Awarded: NOK 0.64 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Redesigning the Dividend Withholding Tax & Closing the Loopholes

In October 2018 a cooperation between journalists known as CORRECTIV uncovered the largest ever European tax fraud. Investors exploited loopholes in the dividend-withholding tax (DWT) that allowed them to avoid the tax, or even to receive reimbursements that exceed tax payments. Three schemes are...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Freight Logistics in Sustainable Cities

The population density in city centres increases. At the same time, internet purchases grow substantially. As a result, the amount of freight that needs to go into the city centres, in particular the number of packages that needs to be delivered, increases substantially. This can lead to a seriou...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Work skills for life: a work readiness programme to prepare the transition from secondary school

Helping Tanzanian Youth Build a Brighter Future A big opportunity — and a big challenge In many African countries, the number of students finishing secondary school has exploded — rising by over 800% in recent decades. While this is a major achievement, it also brings new challenges: how can you...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

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