NHH researchers break all previous Records
With 22 articles in the world’s top-ranked journals, 2025 marks NHH’s strongest publication year to date.
Tungodden awarded notable Fellowship
Professor Bertil Tungodden has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, placing him among a select group of internationally recognised economists, including Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton.
This week, The Royal Economic Society (RES) elected 43 international researchers whose work has made significant contributions to economic research at the highest level.
`Set a new standard´
Bertil Tungodden is Professor at the Department of Economics and Scientific Director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence FAIR. He is a leading behavioral and experimental economist, widely recognized for his research on fairness, inequality, and moral motivation.
The international recognition of Tungodden’s research is broad. Professor Paul Smeets at the University of Amsterdam congratulates him on the appointment and highlights the significance of his work on fairness and moral decision-making:
`Bertil Tungodden has produced truly groundbreaking research on fairness preferences. Through carefully designed experiments, he has shown how people navigate moral dilemmas and how different fairness ideals can be studied empirically in a rigorous way. His work has set a new standard in the field.´
The Royal Economic Society
The Royal Economic Society is one of the world’s oldest professional associations for economists and works to promote and support economic research and public engagement.
Together with a Nobel Laureate
Smeets also notes that Tungodden’s research has been a major source of inspiration for other scholars:
`His contributions have helped shape an entire research agenda, both within economics and beyond. The Fellowship is a well-deserved recognition of his lasting impact.´
The group of newly elected Fellows includes several internationally renowned economists.
Among them is Princeton Professor Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2015), known for his influential research on poverty, health, welfare, and the measurement of living standards.
Also elected is MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu, one of the world’s most influential economists, recognised for his work on institutions, power, and economic development.
Why Salvanes succeeds where almost everyone else is rejected
Over the past 20 years, NHH professor Kjell G. Salvanes has published research in the world’s most prestigious economics journals 24 times. That record has made him the highest-ranked economist in Norway.
NOK 24 million for groundbreaking research
The Research Council is making a major investment in NHH: two research projects will each receive NOK 12 million to study power in the labour market and the long-term consequences of environmental policy for health and inequality.