The Department of Economics have completed a range of projects financed by funding and grants from a variety of sources.
Equinor
Equinor grants funding to Norwegian universities and NHH through the Academia agreement. Researchers at the Department of Economics have received one grant from Equinor.
Project: Equinor: Macroeconomics and Natural Resources (2018-2024)
Grant: 10 million NOK
Summary: The project generated new knowledge on how the Nordic model and economic institutions facilitates efficient allocation of resources across firms. The project supported talented young researchers in macroeconomics and environmental economics and teaching activities related to these fields.
NFR Grants
The Research Council of Norway (NFR) invest in research and innovation through different portfolios. Researchers at the Department of Economics have received several grants from NFR.
Summary: The project included networking activities aimed at development within the CBE Group which increased the spillover effect from research to education. The project mainly focused on measures which favoured the group as a whole, such as hosting guest researchers at NHH and increased support for PhD candidates both internally at NHH/CBE and nationally via courses for PhD students held by leading researchers within their fields. Access to leading researchers and conferences and workshops was beneficial to internal PhD candidates.
EEA Grants
The EEA and Norway Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reducing economic and social disparities and to strengthening bilateral relations with 16 EU countries in Europe. Researchers from the Department of Economics have received three grants from EEA since 2016.
Quantitative Data About Societal and Economic Transformations in the Regions of the Three Baltic States
Principal Investigator
Project: Quantitative Data About Societal and Economic Transformations in the Regions of the Three Baltic States During the Last Hundred Years for the Analysis of Historical Transformations and the Overcoming of Future Challenges - BALTIC100 (2022-2024)
Summary: The project preserved quantitative data by creating a data repository reflecting social and economic transformations in the three Baltic regions over the last hundred years in order to provide a quantitative analysis of long-term development trends in the region since 1920.
Project: EquAl in ReacHing AspiRaTions - EARHART (2020-2023)
Summary: Evidence concerning inequality in ability to realise aspirations is prevalent: overall, in specialised segments of the labour market, in self-employment and high-aspirations environments. Empirical literature and public debate are full of case studies and comprehensive empirical studies documenting the paramount gap between successful individuals (typically ethnic majority men) and those who are less likely to “make it” (typically ethnic minority and women). So far the drivers of these disparities and their consequences have been studied much less intensively, due to methodological constraints and shortage of appropriate data. This project proposed significant innovations to overcome both types of barriers and push the frontier of the research agenda on equality in reaching aspirations. Overall, the project was interdisciplinary, combining four fields: management, economics, quantitative methods and psychology. An important feature of this project was that it offered a diversified methodological perspective, combining applied microeconometrics, as well as experimental methods.
Summary: How effectively are young people supported on the labour market? Project “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” aimed to answer this question by evaluating employment initiatives targeting youth in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland.