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During the Cold war years, when enthusiasm about the Soviet Union in leftist circles gradually faded, Icelandic socialists maintained a double position. The party leadership, especially the party chairman Einar Olgeirsson struggled to keep the party within the Soviet camp,…

Shareholders, and managers particularly, like to see their business grow and become big, preferably the biggest in their industry. The assumption is that large firms have many advantages over their smaller rivals. Large firms can benefit from economies of scale,…

In this paper, I examine the development of the spatial structure of house prices. Due to consumer preferences for access over amenity value, there is a spatial disparity of house prices. According to Alonso’s extension of von Thünen’s theory, house…

The paper discusses the role of public authorities in the cultural sector. The level of public cultural expenditures is set by the budgets of central and local governments. Priorities in public cultural expenditures are largely determined by politicians. To evaluate…

In this paper, I examine the relationship between housing prices and transport improvements. Due to the general consumer preference for access over amenity value, there is a relationship between distance and house prices. Thus, it is reasonable to believe that…

The purpose of the paper is to describe the structure of the retail sector in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The most important economic factors within these countries are discussed, the position of the retail…

This paper compares the ability of two theoretical frameworks to account for the establishment of an R&D center in China by the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Multinational corporations face several challenges and dilemmas when offshoring R&D activities. Barriers created…