• Corruption and competition for resources 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Søreide, Tina (Discussion paper;18/2012, Working paper, 2012-09)
      An increasing share of world FDI is carried out by multinationals from developing countries. These investors may have objectives and constraints that differ from their developed country counterparts. In this paper we ...
    • On the political economy of resource rents in polarized societies 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)
      The present paper analyses how resource rents may affect political outcomes in a polarized society, where groups hold conflicting views on economic policy. A politically dominant group decides whether or not to include ...
    • The early history of environmental economics 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper;10/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)
      This paper considers economists’ treatment of problems related to the environment prior to the establishment of environmental economics as a separate field in the 1960s. In discussing the literature from the late 18th ...