Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Author "Kolstad, Ivar"

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    • Protected tax havens: Cornering the market through international reform? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:7, Working paper, 2017-10-01)
      Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform period has favoured protected tax havens, i.e. havens with strong ...

    • Should Corrupt Countries receive Budget Support? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Brief, Report, 2005-01-01)
      Corruption makes budget support ineffective, and sometimes counter-productive. Budget support is particularly unsuitable in partner countries where political corruption is rampant. As donors increase budget support, it is ...

    • Social Development and Foreign Direct Investments in Developing Countries 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Tøndel, Line (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      This study analyses the link between social development and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. Previous empirical studies conflict in their view of the impact of wage levels and human capital on FDI, ...

    • Social development and industry level foreign direct investment 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Villanger, Espen (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign direct investment (FDI). This study complements aggregate studies by ...

    • Tackling Corruption in Oil Rich Countries: The Role of Transparency 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne; Williams, David Aled (U4 Brief 2008:3, Report, 2008-02-01)
      Corruption is a huge problem in many developing countries rich in oil and other natural resources, and is central in explaining why these countries perform badly in terms of socio-economic development. Transparency reform ...

    • The challenging dynamics of microcredit in Angola 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 6, Report, 2015-09-18)
      Personal characteristics and capacities are important for whether microcredit clients succeed in business. In particular, a client’s education influences business profitability. However, to benefit from group-based ...

    • The evolution of social norms 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Evolutionary game theory provides the tools to analyze which strategies, or patterns of behaviour, emerge over time through a process of adaptation. Social norms can be defined as patterns of behaviour with certain ...

    • The Resource Curse: Which Institutions Matter? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)
      Two types of models are dominant in the current resource curse literature. One type of model studies the selection of entrepreneurs into rent-seeking versus productive activities. The other type analyzes the use of patronage ...

    • Three myths about engagement and exclusion in responsible investment 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working Paper WP 2014:3, Working paper, 2014-05-01)
      There is a move towards more use of engagement strategies in responsible investment. This change in strategies is motivated by a number of claims about the effectiveness of engagement versus exclusion of companies from the ...

    • Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policy 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:03, Working paper, 2016-05-01)
      Abstract In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded by freezing political and economic relations with Norway, introducing ...

    • Transparency in oil rich economies 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (U4 Issue 2007:2, Research report, 2007-12-05)
      Corruption is a huge problem in many developing countries that are rich in oil and other natural resources. It is central in explaining why resource rich countries perform badly in terms of socio-economic development. ...

    • What constitutes a convention? Implications for the coexistence of conventions 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      A model of repeated play of a coordination game, where stage games have a location in social space, and players receive noisy signals of the true location of their games, is reviewed. Sugden (1995) suggests that in such a ...

    • What determines Chinese outward FDI? 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)
      Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially in recent years. Though this has generated considerable interest in the motivations and drivers of Chinese investment abroad, there have been few ...

    • What makes a credit group tick? In-group favouritism among microfinance clients 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 7, Report, 2011-06-05)
      Microcredit clients are often assigned to credit groups with joint liability for loans. But what makes a credit group work well? What credit groups are likely to generate the internal social dynamics needed for group ...

    • Why firms should not always maximize profits 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)
      Though corporate social responsibility (CSR) is on the agenda of most major corporations, corporate executives still largely support the view that corporations should maximize the returns to their owners. There are two ...

    • Why Should Donors Care about Corruption? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Brief vol. 7 no. 1, Report, 2008-01-09)
      Corruption is bad for donor business. Corruption reduces popular support for aid in donor countries. However, aid agencies should pay attention to corruption because it is the right thing to do, rather than just the smart ...

    • Within-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in Angola 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Pires, Armando J. Garcia; Wiig, Arne (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:3, Working paper, 2015-03-01)
      The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks can have a positive effect on members’ benefits from group ...