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      Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Karl Ove; Torvik, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:10, Research report, 2005)
      Natural resource abundant countries constitute both growth losers and growth winners, and the main difference between the success cases and the cases of failure lays in the quality of institutions. With grabber friendly ...
    • Hit by the Silk Road: how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock 

      Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; Moene, Karl Ove (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations ...