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FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Experimental markets with search frictions and network externalities

Prosjektet undersøker små eksperimentelle markeder preget av informasjonssvikt, koordineringsfriksjoner, nettverkseffekter og forhandlinger. I små markeder kan ikke markedsaktørene behandle omgivelsene som gitte, men må opptrer strategisk i forhold til hverandre. I en del av prosjektet under...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Regional Cooperation, Organisational Structure, Kinship and Nation-Building

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Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Extending Contemporary Research on Social and Economic Exchanges

The objective of the project is to extend social exchange theory on two particular accounts. First, according to leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, leaders develop unique exchange relationships of varying quality with individual followers. These exchang e relationships are assumed to fall on a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Disagreement about the Business Cycle and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

The level, slope, curvature and volatility of yields and the predictability of nominal bond returns and the high persistence of changes in their yields are important features of government bonds (U.S. Treasuries). While there are many sophisticated reduce d form models that are successful in expl...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

VRI2-Virkemidler for regional innovasjon 2011-13

Betingelser for samhandling og innovasjon: Organisering av grenser, kunnskap og læring i regionale og industrielle nettverk i Østfold

BESI skal bidra til VRI sine mål om økt kompetansebygging og innovasjon gjennom å (1) styrke forståelsen for innovasjonsprosesser i nettverk som involverer bedrifter, offentlige aktører og brukere, og (2) å utvikle lokal forskningskompetanse innen innovas jonsområdet på internasjonalt nivå. Vi vi...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Oslo

GAVEFORST-Gaveforsterkningsordningen

Grunnleggende forskning - maritim sektor

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Oslo

GAVEFORST-Gaveforsterkningsordningen

Forskning innen eierstyring

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Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2028

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

PES for EU-application in Rapid Deployment

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Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

FORFI-Kunnsk.gr.l.f.forskn.innov.pol

CSR as a Strategic Tool for Sustainability- Focused Innovation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Corporate Social Responsibilty (CSR) has emerged over the last decade and a half as a central business agenda, developing into a business megatrend with a global outreach. The CSR agenda has been dominated by large companies, and in spite of an emerging l iterature, there is a need for increased ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Oslo

ISPSAM-ISP - Samfunnsvitenskap

Ph.D. in Financial Economics

The recent globalization and deregulation of financial markets have raised a number of new and interesting research questions, in particular in the aftermath of the financial crisis. It is becoming increasingly difficult to address these questions success fully without an integration of the disci...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Risk, Insurance, Security and Responsibility

Our extension project proposal emerges primarily from our August 2009 project seminar about societal risk and security in an insurance and re-insurance perspective, and suggests four separate (but interdependent) initiatives: a seminar for contributors to a special issue of the Journal of Busine...

Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Agency Conflicts and Auditing in Private Firms

I intend to provide empirical evidence on the role that external auditing plays in mitigating agency costs in privately held corporations. Using a very rich data set (obtained through special permission from the government) which allows me to partition th e sample in numerous ways related to agen...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

SKATT-Skatteøkonomi

Taxation of Capital Gains in the Housing Market

Analyze the role played by capital gains in the formation of house prices and how taxation of such gains may reduce the volatility of prices, stabilize the housing market, and generate revenue. Construct a theoretical apparatus with two types of buyers, f irst-time and nth time, and examine diffe...

Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Nordic Role in Facing the Climate and Finance Crises

The UN is faced with declining legitimacy and thus declining power. Initiatives as well as power at the supra-national level are increasingly transferred from the UN to informal networks such as G8 and G20. This trend is obvious in the current multi-level and multi-actor climate negotiations. A...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

New model of an interdisciplinary research on sustainable development in the context of the current environmental and economic crisis

We wish to apply for a grant towards a research stay at the Woods Institute at Stanford University, USA, in the period 1 March - 1 July 2010. The grant will cover travel and accommodation expenses, as well as an organization of a joint, UiO-Stanford semi nar in order to build a common research p...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

FINANSMARK-Finansmarkedet

Why do firms pay dividends? A new approach to old puzzles

Starting out with the current puzzles in the international research literature, our project reconsiders the determinants of cash payout to stockholders in an environment which is particularly well suited for this purpose. First, we address both public and private firms, which is very unusual in ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Oslo

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Mot en grenseoverskridende økonomisk historie

Prosjektet har tre hovedkomponenter. Den viktigste av disse består av tre større konferanser som vil relateres direkte til selvrefleksjon rundt den økonomiske historien som fagfelt. Konferansene arrangeres i et institusjonelt samarbeid med NTNU. De to før ste konferansene vil bli holdt i Oslo, me...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Consortium of international market research, annual conference, May 26-29, 2010

The project is principally to organize the CIMaR 2010 conference, with participants from about 25-30 countries. Invitations will be sent early Fall 2009, with subsequent follow-up rounds, paper submissions/reviews and carry out the conference in late May 2010. An integral part of the project i...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

New modes of collaboration in the maritime industry

The Norwegian maritime sector is a strong and complete national cluster that is globally competitive. The cluster is characterized by close local inter-firm interaction, with increasing international linkages. Linkages include foreign guest workers, forei gn ownership of maritime firms, outward f...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Biopharmaceuticals in European hospitals: A comparative study of demand and reimbursement of innovative drugs

Pharmaceutical treatment are of growing importance in hospitals. Annual cost of pharmaceuticals in Norwegian hospitals has increased by 100 percent (in real terms) over a ten years period, and has by now reached 3 billion NOK per year. New and expensive d rugs have improved treatment of cancer, r...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

EVA-Evaluering

Kompensasjon for bortfall av prosjekt

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Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Humanitarian Logistics Networks - PhD Workshop

In the spring of 2010 the Humlog-NET project will be in its final phases, with much of the empirical studies completed. These studies will then have been written up as cases, both as teaching cases and as case resources for the project group members. Th e studies as well as the theoretical deve...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Green Oslo: History, Trajectory and Prospects

It is our contention that Oslo has a long history of being a 'green city' in the sense both of having a strong self-awareness of the city in its wider geographic setting and a long tradition of conservation of natural resources and green spaces. We also b elieve that the specific character of pla...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

DIV-AKT-KT - Planlegging, utredning og evaluering

Et kunnskapsbasert Norge

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

SMARTRANS-Næringslivets transp. og ITS

Forprosjekt for etablering av BIP på prosjekt om kommersielle selskapers roller og strategier i nødhjelpslogistikk

Dette er et forprosjekt for å utvikle søknad om brukerinitiert prosjekt innenfor nødhjelpslogistikk. Ideen til hovedprosjektet er å studere og finne ut av kommersielle selskapers fremtidige roller innenfor nødhjelpslogistikk. Blant annet med bakgrunn i kl imaendringer skjer det stadig fler naturk...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility in Norway

Enron, Shell, and in Norway, Statoil and the state-owned Vinmonopolet, are all companies that have recently been involved in scandals and criticized for unethical conduct. By implication, these companies are also accused of neglecting their corporate soci al responsibility (CSR). Concurrently, it...

Awarded: NOK 0.58 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

After the Post Cold War: The European Union and Small Power Politics (289 sider).

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Awarded: NOK 22,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

A Return of Geopolitics? EU Aid Policy as a Strategic Instrument in Africa

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Awarded: NOK 14,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

FINANSMARK-Finansmarkedet

Norsk forum for bærekraftige og ansvarlige investeringer - NORSIF

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Macroeconomic news, monetary policy and the role of financial markets

This project addresses the effect of macroeconomic news, such as announcements about monetary policy, on asset prices, as well as the reverse causation, namely how shocks in asset prices influence monetary policy. We expect there to be substantial interde pendence between monetary policy and asse...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

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