In the last twenty years economics has created much of lasting value and real potential: it has been a very fertile period. But economics has also suffered from what I shall term collective amnesia covering whole areas of public policy. And on policy and the role of government it has,...

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...

This dissertation analysis the consequences of interjurisdictional competition for a mobile tax base for the efficiency of the public sector and the growth potential of a jurisdiction.

Already before the EU Directive 96/92/EG was passed in 1996, some countries in the EU had started their liberalisation process for energy markets. So, in 1991, Norway established a national power market that in 1996 turned into the multinational power exchange Nord Pool, including all Nordic...

We propose the relaxation algorithm as a simple and powerful method for simulating the transition process in growth models. This method has a number of important advantages: First, it can easily deal with a wide range of dynamic systems including stiff differential equations and systems giving...

Research has gained in importance at universities of applied sciences in recent years. However, a lack of suitable doctoral opportunities for their own graduates can be observed. When looking for university partners for cooperative doctorates, graduates of university of applied sciences continue...