Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik"

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    • Audiovisual services in the GATS : the case of Norway 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-05)
      This paper discusses possible impacts of the Doha round negotiations in the WTO on the audiovisual services sector in Norway. Like most other countries, Norway has not made commitments, but has listed a number of MFN ...

    • Direction of trade following China’s accession to the WTO 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-02)
      This paper analyzes the impact of WTO accession on China’s international trade patterns. It starts with an analysis of historical trade patterns and the driving forces behind them. It is argued that China’s trade has been ...

    • Fragmented production : a curb on China's export growth? 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-08)
      This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of production. Within such a framework there is little scope for substituting quantity for quality or for ...

    • Information technology and producer services : a source of economic development : the South African case 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-09)
      This paper discusses one aspect of the by now somewhat discredited "new economy", namely the impact of information and communication technology on the growth in volume and diversity of producer services. It provides an ...

    • Information technology and regional development : global village or rural backwater? 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      The study discusses information and communication technology (ICT) and regional development. It first presents a case study of a small multinational company (Vik-Sandvik) producing naval architecture and ship design in an ...

    • Information technology, richness of services and income distribution : is ICT after all the great equalizer? 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      This paper discusses how information and communication technology (ICT) affects the richness and reach of services such as education, health and entertainment. These services consist of several components, some of which ...

    • Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-07)
      This paper presents a case study of a naval architecture firm in Western Norway, which trades its services electronically. The paper goes on to analyze the market entry and location decision of such entrepreneurs by means ...

    • The role of FDI in economic development 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Kind, Hans Jarle; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      This paper deals with two questions: First, what are the determinants of FDI? Second, what is the role of FDI in economic development? In order to provide some answers to these questions, we draw upon the existing ...

    • The role of FDI in economic development 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Kind, Hans Jarle; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      This paper deals with two questions: First, what are the determinants of FDI? Second, what is the role of FDI in economic development? In order to provide some answers to these questions, we draw upon the existing theoretical ...

    • South Africa : a developing country and net outward investor 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-06)
      South Africa is not an emerging market in the sense that modern industries are established in the country for the first time. Rather, South Africa is in transition from a mature, mineral-led and inward-looking economy to ...

    • Statens budsjetteringsrutiner : bør man skille mellom konsum og investering i budsjettprosessen? 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Rapport, Research report, 2005-05)
      Dagens føringsprinsipp i statens budsjett og regnskap innebærer at inntekter og utgifter føres i samme år som de innbetales og utbetales (kontantprinsippet), mens føringsprinsippet i privat sektor krever at inntekter og ...

    • Trade in information services and economic development : on the implications of ICT for less developed countries 

      de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-07)
      The diffusion of information and communication technology has reduced cost of information substantially in recent years. Even in the poorest countries in the world, the share of the population with access to telecommunications ...

    • The upstream petroleum industry and local industrial development : a comparative study 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Vatne, Eirik; Heum, Per (Report, Research report, 2003-05)
      The report analyzes local industrial development related to the upstream petroleum sector in six selected oil-exporting countries. It focuses on local content in the supply and services industry, and how policies to enhance ...