Selfish Equality

This paper introduces a theory of popular support for inequality reduction based on rational self-interest. In a controlled experiment across 40 countries and 9

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Discrimination, competition and trust

On Friday 16 October Ethan Connor O’Leary will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

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Why do we disagree about economic inequality?

Why do we disagree so strongly about economic inequality and redistribution? Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden explore this question in a new comment article in Nature Human Behaviour.

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Ikke hjelp utfordrerne med å forbli små

Regjeringen vil styrke konkurransen i dagligvaremarkedet gjennom å gi små kjeder bedre grossisttilgang. Er det rett medisin?

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The Stories We Tell: Societal Narratives and Support for the Far Right

In two studies using AI-assisted qualitative interviews, we ask a representative sample of the German electorate (N = 1, 013) to reflect on the most important s

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Where Emissions Travel: A Source-Receptor Approach to Evaluating Environmental Policy

Pollution from regulated sources can cross administrative boundaries; consequently, jurisdictionbased treatment assignment may fail to accurately capture policy

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Revealed Normative Principles

When decision-makers allocate resources between anonymous others, with their own payoffs held constant, own-payoff utility maximization places no restriction on

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Major grant for Alexander Willén

The NHH professor has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth more than NOK 16 million from the European Research Council.

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A competitive world

We provide globally representative evidence on two attitudes toward competition: individuals' willingness to compete and the importance they attach to boys and

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The unseen force shaping families

On Friday 4 September Marlis M. Schneider will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

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What does it take for welfare programmes to work?

On Friday 28 August Pallavi Prabhakar will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

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Shackleton’s unexpected arrival in Stromness, South Georgia, 20 May 1916 | Polar Record | Cambridge Core

Shackleton’s unexpected arrival in Stromness, South Georgia, 20 May 1916 - Volume 62

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What shapes our opportunities?

On Wednesday 26 August Erika T. Povea will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

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Why gender inequality follows women into retirement

On Tuesday 25 August Qquillaccori G. López will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

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The Major Divide: Student Sorting, Meritocratic Admissions & Upward Mobility

Large earnings gaps by socioeconomic status (SES) persist among college applicants even where tuition is free. Using the universe of Danish applications linked

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Billig strøm til datasentre kan bli et subsidiesluk

Målet om lave kraftpriser kombinert med stor etterspørsel etter kraft til datasentre, kan ende med nedbygging av naturen og årlige subsidier på fem milliarder bare til ett, stort datasenter.

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Fairness perceptions of redistribution and predistribution

To address rising income inequality, governments typically rely on two levers: predistribution policies that implement inequality reduction before inc…

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Willén appointed editor of The Economic Journal

NHH Professor Alexander Willén has been appointed an editor of The Economic Journal, one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in economics.

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Dynastic Capital and the Inheritance of Social Advantage

We use population-wide Norwegian administrative data to examine how social capital is transmitted across generations. We construct a multidimensional measure of

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(PDF) NorDan The First Hundred Years - preprint

PDF | On Jun 4, 2026, Ola Honningdal Grytten published NorDan The First Hundred Years - preprint | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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Estimating grain storage with probate inventories: Kent and Cornwall, 1600-1750

We show how probate inventories can be used to measure the seasonal pattern of grain stocks and hence provide direct information on both intra-year an…

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Public coverage of dental care: universal or targeted?

In this paper, we analyze the impact of public dental care coverage – universal versus targeted – on access, pricing, and public spending in a model with two competing dental practices and heterogene...

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Competition matters: Uniform vs. indication-based pricing of pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical expenditures are rising rapidly, driven in part by the innovation of highly effective but very expensive drug therapies that treat mult…

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Who Pays for Unions?*

Abstract. If unions raise worker wages, who pays? We provide a comprehensive assessment of firm responses to increased unionization, using changes in the t

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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Using existing and new price data sets, we provide the first estimates of market integration across England over the entire 200 years of the industrial revolution. We document a significant, though n...

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Pay Transparency Directive: EU countries miss the deadline

The principle of equal pay for equal work has existed for a long time. But what good is it if employees do not have enough information to know whether they are actually being treated unfairly?

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Receives ERC funding for the second time

NHH Professor Bertil Tungodden has been awarded NOK 22 million from the ERC to investigate a fundamental question in economics: When are markets morally legitimate?

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