Despite the wide-spread cross-border operations of firms, the lack of appropriate data has so far precluded a knowledge-based understanding of the international repercussions of corporate tax policies. TAXGLOBAL provides novel insights into the cross-border effect of firm taxation on economic activity. Given the recent tax reform in the United States and a surge of corporate tax reforms to be expected in Europe in the near future (e.g. France, the United Kingdom), such insights are now needed more than ever. It is essential to fully understand and quantify the cross-border impact of corporate tax policy in order to enhance job creation, sustainable investment and productivity growth in a globalized economy. TAXGLOBAL will provide a new understanding of the issue by compiling detailed high-quality data from Norway and analysing it in a quasi-experimental research design. In particular, I will (i) merge several administrative data sets on the domestic and foreign operations of companies which are obtained directly from the administrative and statistical authorities to which they report. This new and unique database will provide an unprecedented opportunity to study in detail the cross-border links on the level of the individual firm. I will (ii) compile a comprehensive and complementary database of all corporate tax reforms in a broad selection of countries to which firms are exposed via foreign affiliates. The information will then (iii) be combined and analysed using state-of-the-art regression models. This integral study of cross-border tax effects using administrative data for multinational firms will advance the research field with new insights into the global effect of tax policy on real business activity, as well as providing policy makers with a novel understanding of the implications of their decisions in integrated economies such as the EU.

I3W aims at generating empirical knowledge and novel theories to explain the joint distribution of work, wealth, and welfare in the population using macroeconomic theory, structural quantitative models, and micro data. Specifically, I3W’s overall goal will be achieved through the following research objectives and their corresponding work packages (WP): I. Develop a macroeconomic framework of the drivers of welfare inequality. In WP1 I will develop a model based on expected utility—a function of lifetime consumption, lifetime leisure, and life expectancy and their joint distributions—for measuring inequality in economic well-being within a country using rich longitudinal datasets. This framework will allow me to measure and decompose the welfare inequality in a selection of European countries and compare to the US over time, allowing a deeper understanding of the observed heterogeneity in the population along various dimensions: life expectancy, hours worked, wealth, income, consumption, and ultimately also welfare. II. Analyze underlying factors affecting the drivers: the case of inequality of leisure in relation to access to insurance. In WP2 I will test the hypothesis that better insurance, interpreted in its most general form, leads to a more positive correlation between wages and hours worked. I will base my arguments on observations from micro data, show it theoretically using a theory of labor supply that is consistent with cross-country evidence, evidence over time, and evidence from micro data, and quantify the importance in practice with a carefully calibrated heterogenous-agent model. The outputs of WP1 and WP2 will be two working papers that will push the current boundaries of the welfare inequality research field while providing policymakers a tool box for the analysis and comparison across European countries of welfare inequality and its drivers.

"The principal aim of this project has been to develop a broad, cross-institutional and interdisciplinary teaching program on “Sustainable Business Models”. The contents and materials developed through the project are primarily intended to be used as a basis for online courses in Sustainable Business at the partner institutions and in the CEMS network. They can also be used as building blocks for regular courses that may allow for a “flipped classroom” approach that frees up time for more interactive forms of learning in the classroom.Sustainability is one of the major challenges facing contemporary societies and it has very significant implications for business. Global surveys of CEOs show that sustainability is being placed on the top of the agenda of companies across all industries. In part, this is due to the challenges faced by stronger expectations by customers and other stakeholders, as well as the threat of regulation of social and environmental performance. Increasingly, however, there is an awareness that there are profitable opportunities associated with being more sustainable or by offering products and services that enable others to lead more sustainable lives. In this sense, there is a growing understanding of the possibility that firms can become sustainable while at the same time being responsible. The knowledge of business models that allow for such sustainable functioning are however still scarce in contemporary business education. This project has addressed this shortcoming by developing a comprehensive educational program consisting of video lectures and other teaching material from the frontiers of research on sustainable business.The project had the following objectives:1. To develop a course program consisting of six modules on topics related to the design, innovation and implementation of sustainable business models. 2. As a main outcome, the project will deliver 30 teaching videos and additional materials freely accessible online.Initially, four business schools took part in the consortium. The lead organization was NHH Norwegian School of Economics and the three other participating organizations were ESADE Business School, Copenhagen Business School and Corvinus University Budapest. After an initial round of contract negotiations, however, Corvinus University Budapest chose to withdraw from the project (cf. Amendment to Grant Agreement, Nov. 6th 2017). The remaining organizations agreed that NHH Norwegian School of Economics would take on the workload intended to be conducted by Corvinus University Budapest. As a consequence, researchers from NHH Norwegian School of Economics developed and produced four of the six modules in the program (modules 1-3 and 6), while ESADE Business School (module 4) and Copenhagen Business School (module 5) developed and produced one module each.The main outcomes of the project, as planned, are the seven intellectual outputs (IO). IO1-6 are the six video modules comprising a total of 32 videos, while IO7 is the online, open access platform at www.SUSTBUS.com, through which all videos can be accessed. The modules are as follows:- IO1: The problem of sustainability- IO2: Business Models for Sustainability- IO3: Circular and Collaborative Business Models- IO4: Social Innovation- IO5: Strategizing and Organizing for Sustainability- IO6: Business in a Sustainable Future- IO7: Online portal at www.SUSTBUS.comIn addition, there have been several learning and teaching activities, as well as multiplier events, carried out as part of the project. The following learning and teaching activities were carried out in order to test the material throughout the development and production phases:- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - Responsible Global Leadership Seminar at NHH, Jan/Feb 2018- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - bachelor program seminar at ESADE, Jan 2019- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - Responsible Global Leadership Seminar at NHH, Jan/Feb 2019 The following multiplier events have been carried out to disseminate results from the project:- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - seminar for NHH Alumni, Oslo, April 2019- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - closing seminar at CBS, April 2019- Sharing of Practices, Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships, NHH, 2019In addition, a ""Sustainable Business Models"" seminar was held at Global Responsibility Week 2018 at CBS. Also, a panel debate was hosted during the Global Responsibility Week at NHH in 2018, involving local entrepreneurs heading sustainability iniatives. In terms of impact, the material has already been used widely in teaching at the three partners schools, both at bachelor and master level. In addition, as shown above, it has been used in the CEMS programs, in which there are students from all partner schools in the CEMS network. This application of the program will continue, thus ensuring long-term impact on the teaching of sustainability in and beyond these curricula."

The future of Europe will be carved by today’s major societal challenges: digitalisation and artificial intelligence, climate change, ageing societies and migration. Existing and new challenges must be tackled successfully to ensure a sustainable and positive future. We will inspire active societal engagement in the current and future state of Europe and beyond. ENGAGE.EU is an alliance of leading European universities in business, economics, and the social sciences, which aims to provide European citizens the set of skills and competences needed to tackle major societal challenges. ENGAGE.EU will become an education and research referent, an innovation and outreach platform and a societal change incubator. The alliance will exploit the unique synergies of its members, taking existing collaborations to a new dimension guided by a joint strategy and a common goal. Each university brings its unique perspective shaped by its academic areas of specialisation as well as geographical and economic context, to create value together beyond what could be achieved alone. The alliance is currently academic home to over 100,000 students, academics and staff who will benefit from ENGAGE.EU. ENGAGE.EU will strive for a comprehensive approach, following three interconnected paths: Engaged Learning, Engaged Research & Innovation and Engaged in Society. These paths will be articulated through four axis: (1) ENGAGE.EU Campus enables an innovative learning environment for learners of all ages and levels to engage in learning. (2) ENGAGE.EU Think Tank establishes formats of advanced studies to strengthen and renew the existing ties between researchers, learners and stakeholders. (3) ENGAGE.EU Labs are innovative models of collaboration and co-creation for novel education of European citizens. (4) ENGAGE.EU Dual Learning Programmes bring actors from outside academia into the learning, research and innovation arena, promoting local and international responsibility.

A large social science literature tries to describe and understand the causes and consequences of crime, usually focusing on individuals’ criminal activity in isolation. The ambitious aim of this research project is to establish a broader perspective of crime that takes into account the social context in which it takes place. The findings will inform policymakers on how to better use funds both for crime prevention and the rehabilitation of incarcerated criminals. Criminal activity is often a group phenomenon, yet little is known about how criminal networks form and what can be done to break them up or prevent them from forming in the first place. Overlooking victims of crime and their relationships to criminals has led to an incomplete and distorted view of crime and its individual and social costs. While a better understanding of these social interactions is crucial for designing more effective anti-crime policy, existing research in criminology, sociology and economics has struggled to identify causal effects due to data limitations and difficult statistical identification issues. This project will push the research frontier by combining register datasets that have never been merged before, and by using several state-of-the-art statistical methods to estimate causal effects related to criminal peer groups and their victims. More specifically, we aim to do the following: -Use recent advances in network modelling to describe the structure and density of various criminal networks and study network dynamics following the arrest/incarceration or death of a central player in a network. -Obtain a more accurate measure of the societal costs of crime, including actual measures for lost earnings and physical and mental health problems, following victims and their offenders both before and after a crime takes place. -Conduct a randomized controlled trial within a prison system to better understand how current rehabilitation programs affect criminal and victim networks.