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    • The limits of the EUR regulatory state: Power, politics and pragmatism in European gas markets 

      Andersen, Svein S.; Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      Paper presented at the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Eleventh Biennial International Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 23-25, 2009. Panel: Reconsidering the Regulatory State in Europe.
    • The Norwegian local election of 2007 

      Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;2/2007, Working paper, 2007)
      The paper is a report prepared for the PSA Specialist Group on Scandinavia.
    • Local Institutional Design in the Shadow of the Market 

      Leiren, Merethe Dotterud (CEAS Reports;2/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      This paper was presented at the Workshop “The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation, or Demise?” in Oslo, 16 September 2011.
    • The Hungarian Party System in 2010: More Polarized, less Plural 

      Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;6/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      This paper investigates the origins and nature of Hungary’s 2010 ‘earthquake election’.
    • The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation or Demise? 

      Lodge, Martin; Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      This short paper is meant to provide for some background ideas to motivate discussions during our workshop. It therefore seeks to make a few short (and hopefully somewhat provocative) points. The idea of the ‘regulatory ...
    • The study of the European Union from outside: European integration studies in Norway and Iceland 1990-2010 

      Eliassen, Kjell; Marino, Marit Sjøvaag; Bergmann, Eirikur (CEAS Reports;1/2012, Working paper, 2012)
      This is a working paper version of a paper written for SENT - The Network of European Studies. The aim of this chapter is to map the research on European integration carried out by Norwegian and Icelandic researchers and ...
    • Attention, Politics or Performance? Competing Influences on Oversight by Analytical Bureaucracies in the Regulatory State 

      Workman, Samuel; Wolfe, Michelle (Ceas Reports; 3/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      In this paper, we examine and evaluate competing explanations for congressional attention to the federal bureaucracy in the United States. What we label “analytical bureaucracy” is a key, but severely understudied, tool ...
    • The Study of European Union Politics in the UK and Ireland 

      Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)
      This is a working paper version of a paper written for SENT - The Network of European Studies. The working paper provides an overview of the development of the British and Irish literature on the EU, from the early debates ...
    • A new look at Euroscepticism: How Stable Are the Cleavages? 

      Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2010, Working paper, 2010)
      This paper is a transcript of the lecture at The ARENA annual conference 2009: A new look at Euroscepticism, Oslo, 11 December 2009.
    • The Commission’s internal conditions for social re-regulation: Market efficiency and wider social goals in setting the rules of financial services in Europe 

      Hartlapp, Miriam; Rauh, Christian (CEAS Reports;4/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      With its scarce budgetary resources and institutional logics favouring market-based problemsolving, the European Union (EU) has been considered a prime example of the regulatory state. When and how can we expect the ...
    • Regulating for competition and security: The European energy sector 

      Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;7/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      The present paper explores the changing priorities in EU energy policy, its effects on the European energy market and the robustness of the regulatory toolbox available to the EU and its member states.
    • What drives oil prices? Emerging versus developed economies 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Bjørnland, Hilde C.; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)
      We analyze the importance of demand from emerging and developed economies as drivers of the real price of oil over the last two decades. Using a factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model that allows us to ...
    • Felles valuta krever felles vaner 

      Isachsen, Arne Jon (CME Working paper series;6/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      Notatet er en samling av Arne Jon Isachsens "Månedsbrev" for siste halvvår 2011. Samlingen består av følgende artikler: 1) Island – først alt galt, så alt riktig 2) I kajakk på Skurdalsfjorden – The Summer of 2011; 3) ...
    • Norges Bank Watch 2012 

      Torvik, Ragnar; Vredin, Anders; Wilhelmsen, Bjørn Roger (Norges Bank Watch report series;2012, Research report, 2012)
      Each year the Centre for Monetary Economics (CME) at The Department of Economics, BI Norwegian School of Management appoints an independent group of experts to evaluate monetary policy in Norway.
    • Norges Bank Watch 2011 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C.; Wilhelmsen, Bjørn Roger (Norges Bank Watch report series;2011, Research report, 2011)
      Each year the Centre for Monetary Economics (CME) at The Department of Economics, BI Norwegian School of Management appoints an independent group of experts to evaluate monetary policy in Norway. The Ministry of Finance ...
    • Is China falling apart? 

      Isachsen, Arne Jon (CME Working paper series;1/2012, Working paper, 2012)
      On 1 October 1949 Mao proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. On Tiananmen Square that day was Li Shenzhi, together with tens of thousand of other young, idealistic and excited Communists. “China”, wrote Li when later ...
    • På vandring 

      Isachsen, Arne Jon (CME Working paper series;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)
      Dette arbeidsnotatet er en samling av Arne Jon Isachsens "Månedsbrevet" fra årets seks første måneder. Følgende artikler er inkludert i notatet: 1) På vandring; 2) Hva er luksus?; 3) Bjørnen sover, eller…?; 4) LTRO; 5) ...
    • Laddering in Initial Public Offering Allocations 

      Fjesme, Sturla Lyngnes (CCGR Working Paper;2/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      Tying Initial Public Offering (IPO) allocations of common stock to after-listing purchases in the IPO shares, a process referred to as IPO laddering, has resulted in large-scale investigations of the major investment ...
    • Stockholder Conflicts and Dividend Payout 

      Berzins, Janis; Bøhren, Øyvind; Stacescu, Bogdan (CCGR Working Paper;5/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      This paper examines how dividend policy influences conflicts of interest between majority and minority stockholders in a large sample of private firms with controlling blockholders. We find that a higher potential for ...
    • Corporate Governance Before There Was Corporate Law 

      Ostergaard, Charlotte; Smith, David C. (CCGR Working Paper;3/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      We study 79 sets of bylaw provisions adopted by Norwegian corporations in a free contracting environment before Norway got its first corporate law. The firms in our sample are publicly traded companies in the period ...