Student stipends

Oct 30, 2007 09:00 AM

ESOP has a limited number of stipends available for master students who plan to write their master's thesis during the spring semester 2008. The thesis must be relevant to ESOP's research areas. Application deadline is 15th December 2007.

ESOP workshop 26th and 27th October

Oct 23, 2007 01:00 PM

The first ESOP workshop took place at the University of Oslo on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th October. The workshop, with the title 'Perspectives on Equality and Welfare spending', took place at 'Rådsalen', Administration building (see picture). Presentations were given by Torben Andersen, Erling Barth, Pierre Cahuc, Joan Esteban, Bertil Holmlund, Mari Rege, Åsa Rosén, Erik Sørensen, Marie-Anne Valfort, and Kalle Moene.

Against all odds: the Nordic welfare states

Oct 3, 2007 09:00 AM

Low income disparity, high taxes and generous welfare benefits are the perfect recipe for economic disaster - in theory. But the Nordic welfare states are prospering with exactly that formula. Now, 55 top-notch researchers at the ESOP research centre, one of Norway's eight new Centres of Excellence, will investigate why. (News from the Research Council of Norway)

Raquel Fernandez is keynote speaker at the Department of Economics' 75th anniversary

Aug 27, 2007 12:00 PM

Prof. Raquel Fernandez, who is adjunct professor at ESOP, will be one of the keynote speakers at the Department of Economics' 75th anniversary on the 20th September. She will give a lecture on the issue 'Culture and Economics.' Raquel Fernandez is professor in Economics at New York University.

Official opening of ESOP 24th September

Aug 27, 2007 10:00 AM

The official opening of ESOP will take place at a ceremony at the University of Oslo on Monday 24th September. ESOP and four other new Centres of Excellence at the University of Oslo will then receive the placards showing that they have been awarded status as Centres of Excellence by the Norwegian Research Council.