There may be major unintended consequences when society restricts benefits. This is felt by the children of young single mothers. The effects of little money at home and less time to focus on children are pronounced in lower secondary school, where their marks are clearly lower.
Finn E. Kydland believes that a predictable financial policy rather than monetary policy is crucial to improving productivity in the eurozone: "To me, a capital buffer seems unnecessary", he says.
Norway has experienced robust growth, low unemployment and stable inflation. NHH Professor Øystein Thøgersen argues that the current situation is mostly down to luck.
On Friday 10 October 2014 Eirin Mølland will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
People with higher education and people who live in areas with a low mortality rate are overrepresented among users of the free choice of hospital system.
Resource-intensive mergers in the hospital sector are based on a desire for better and cheaper hospitals, but when the positive effects cannot be documented, it is about time we showed less enthusiasm for such mergers, according to NHH professor Kurt R Brekke.
A new study carried out at NHH finds that unemployment has disturbing long term negative effects. Young people who have been unemployed are scarred by the experience. The younger they are, the more likely they are to be jobless later in life. Some of them drop out of the labour market for good.
Should we let children stay children for as long as possible, or is an early school start important to prepare children for life in a knowledge-based society?
The law regulating pharmacies should secure users cheaper medicines. However, the market is controlled by three dominant pharmacy chains, leading to restricted competition and preventing prices from falling.
Department managers in Norwegian hospitals nowadays have to take care of both the financial aspect of running a hospital and the treatment of patients. NHH researcher Katarina Østergren is concerned with the strong emphasis on financial results.
