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  • Faster internet reduced unemployment July 2, 2024 2:53 PM

    The historic rollout of broadband throughout Norway in the 2000s contributed to lower unemployment rates, reveals a new study from the Department of Economics at UiO.

  • Bård Harstad receives his third funding from ERC Apr. 26, 2022 12:00 PM

    Bård Harstad, who is a professor at the Department of Economy at The University of Oslo receives his third ERC-grant. He will, among other things, investigate how international and policies agreements can be designed to exploit the domestic political forces, that is, to take advantage of them, so that the agreement or policy becomes stronger or more attractive.

 
 

Media contributions (in Norwegian)

  • Kunnskap er politisk makt Aug. 22, 2017 12:34 PM

    Rike velgere stemmer oftere enn fattige i tråd med egne interesser - de kan mer om politikken. Dermand har partiene stemmer å hente på å favorisere dem, skriver Jo Thori Lind i DN, lørdag 19. august.

  • Forskere: Ja, ulikheten øker Aug. 22, 2017 12:32 PM

    Fordelingen av inntekt mellom vanlige lønnsmottakere og kapitaleiere er nå mer i kapitaleiernes favør enn før, sier Kalle Moene, sitert i Dagsavisen Østfold, tirsdag 15. august.

  • Symbolskatten Aug. 13, 2017 6:26 PM

    Nok en gang får formuesskatten ufortjent mye oppmerksomhet, skriver Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe i DN, fredag 11. august.