Foreign companies dominate data centre capacity
`As more and more players compete for scarce Norwegian electricity, we need to ask which data centres Norway actually benefits from´, says NHH Professor Øivind A. Nilsen.
Expert Committees
NHH's researchers are frequently appointed as leaders and members of expert groups, public committees, and NOU (Norwegian Official Report) committees to investigate various societal issues. NOUs and reports are a central part of the policy-making process in Norway.
Norges Bank could take on greater responsibility for Oil Fund ethics
An expert committee recommends giving Norges Bank greater responsibility for following up companies in the fund’s portfolio.
Nuclear Power Committee: Not profitable in Norway
The committee does not recommend starting a process for nuclear power development in Norway at this stage.
NHH professor appointed to New Nav expert committee
Katrine V. Løken has been appointed to a new expert committee that will provide advice on how Nav should be organised in the future.
New measures to encourage earlier childbearing
Guaranteed childcare from the age of one and extra child benefit for parents under 30 are among the measures proposed by the Birth Rate Committee.
NHH professor appointed to new expert committee on housing allowance
Housing allowance and social assistance form the welfare state’s final safety net. The scheme will now undergo a thorough review. NHH Professor Kjell Gunnar Salvanes is among the experts appointed to advise the government.
– Several important legal amendments
The law commission, which includes NHH researcher Linda Orvedal, has submitted the official report on the Competition Act.
Alexander W. Cappelen joins review of the Oil Fund’s ethics
He helped shape the Oil Fund’s first ethical guidelines. Twenty years later, the NHH Professor is once again given an important ethics assignment.