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.

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.

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.

A new study in the American Economic Review shows that who you go to school with matters greatly for who enters elite university programmes such as law, civil engineering, medicine, and the top business programmes.