Kjetil Bjorvatn

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

Associate Professor

Helleveien 30

N-5035 Bergen

Norway

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Poschinger Str. 5

Munich, DE-81679

Germany

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1.

Human and Financial Capital for Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field and Lab Experiment

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 1/2011
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 31 Jan 2011
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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Tax Competition and International Public Goods

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 390
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Feb 2001
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Guttorm Schjelderup
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science
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Tax Competition for Capital, International Public Goods

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Teaching Through Television: Experimental Evidence on Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzania

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 3/2015
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Apr 2015
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Linda Sekei, Erik Sorensen and Bertil Tungodden
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics, Development Pioneer Consultants, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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Decentralization and the Fate of Minorities

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1032
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Oct 2003
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Alexander W. Cappelen
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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Teaching Business in Tanzania: Evaluating Participation and Performance

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 15/2009
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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Corruption and Competition for Resources

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 18/2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Oct 2012
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Tina Soreide
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Corruption, FDI, auction, natural resources

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Resource Rents, Power, and Political Stability

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4727
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Apr 2014
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and University of Marburg - Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS)
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resource rent, political power, political stability, conflict

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Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace

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Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace

FEEM Working Paper No. 39.2010
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Apr 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Alireza Naghavi
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and University of Bologna - Department of Economics
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Rent Seeking, Rentier States, Resource Rents, Conflict, Patronage Employment

Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Alireza Naghavi
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and University of Bologna - Department of Economics
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Rent seeking, rentier states, resource rents, conflict, patronage employment

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On the Importance of Openness for Industrial Policy Design in Developing Countries

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 3/2007
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola D. Coniglio
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (UNIBA) - Department of Economics and Mathematical Methods
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Industrialization, policy design, policy reform, economic

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How Strong Are Ethnic Preferences?

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How Strong Are Ethnic Preferences?

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 26/2015
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 22 Nov 2015
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Edward Miguel, Daniel N. Posner, Bertil Tungodden and Kelly Zhang
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics and Stanford University
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How Strong are Ethnic Preferences?

NBER Working Paper No. w21715
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2015
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Edward Miguel, Daniel N. Posner, Bertil Tungodden and Kelly Zhang
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics and Stanford University
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Effort, Inequality and Cooperation: Evidence from the Lab

SERIES Working Papers N. 02/2018
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 May 2018
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola D. Coniglio
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (UNIBA) - Department of Economics and Mathematical Methods
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public goods, inequality, source of income heterogeneity

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Technology Sourcing and Strategic Foreign Direct Investment

Review of International Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 600-614, September 2006
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Aug 2006
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Carsten Eckel
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Economics
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Strategic Regional Integration

SERIES Working Papers N. 07/2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Nov 2016
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Nicola D. Coniglio and Hiroshi Kurata
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (UNIBA) - Department of Economics and Mathematical Methods and Tohoku Gakuin University
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Regional integration; Globalization; Cournot competition

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On the Political Economy of Resource Rents in Polarized Societies

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 2/2007
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Feb 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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Natural resorces, Polarization, Conflict, Democracy

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Policy Design and Rent Seeking: Targeted Versus Broad Based Intervention

Review of Development Economics, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 577-585, November 2006
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Oct 2006
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola D. Coniglio
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (UNIBA) - Department of Economics and Mathematical Methods
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Elections and Selfishness

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Edward Miguel, Daniel N. Posner, Bertil Tungodden and Kelly Zhang
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics and Stanford University
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Elections, Africa, Selfishness, Dictator Game, Kenya, Tanzania

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Empowering the Disabled Through Savings Groups: Experimental Evidence from Uganda.

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 5/2018
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Mar 2018
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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Segregation, Polarization and the Protection of Minorities: National Versus Regional Policy.

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 10/2007
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Alexander W. Cappelen
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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Segregation, Radicalization, Regional Autonomy, Welfare

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Strategic Privatization in Developing Countries

Review of Development Economics, Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 522-534, 2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Jul 2011
Kjetil Bjorvatn
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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Farmers, Middlemen and Exporters: A Model of Market Power, Pricing and Welfare in a Vertical Supply Chain

Review of Development Economics, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 31-44, 2015
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 Jan 2015
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Anna B Milford and Lars Sørgard
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Norwegian Competition Authority
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On the Importance of Openess for Industrial Policy Design in Developing Countries

SERIES Working Paper No. 14
Posted: 25 May 2011
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola D. Coniglio
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (UNIBA) - Department of Economics and Mathematical Methods

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Industrialization, policy design, policy reform, economic growth, openess

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Destructive Competition: Factionalism and Rent-Seeking in Iran.

World Development, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 2314-2324, 2008
Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Kjetil Selvik
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Resource Curse, Factionalization, Rent Seeking, Oil Revenues

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Urban Infrastructure and Industrialization

Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 48, Issue 2, September 2000
Posted: 20 Nov 2000
Kjetil Bjorvatn
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

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Industrialization, Urban Infrastructure, Migration

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Taxation and Migration in a Federal System

International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1998
Posted: 28 Apr 1998
Kjetil Bjorvatn
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

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