Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås is a Research Professor (part time) at NUPI. She works on trade and trade policy issues, focusing on the interaction between trade policy, trade, technology and labour market adjustments.
Nordås also has a position as visiting professor at Örebro University where she works on trade, technology and labour market adjustments. Before coming to NUPI, Nordås worked in the OECD where she has led the work on trade and trade policy in the services sectors. Previous work experience includes research and teaching positions at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, the University of Bergen, SNF, University of Western Cape, WTO, and visiting scholar to Stanford University.
Nordås holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bergen and has published extensively on international trade in services.
Publications All publications
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Regulatory barriers to trade in services: A new database and composite indices
Publication : Academic article | 2020This paper presents new data on services trade regulation for 46 countries in 22 services sectors over 6 years (2014–2019). The data consist of quali1
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Impact of Digital Technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Trade In Services
Publication : Popular scientific article | 2020Digital technologies are cutting trade costs for services, turning more services from non-tradables into tradables, and putting trade in services on1
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Gender and Labour Market Adjustment to Trade: The Case of India
Publication : Academic article | 2020Standing at 24% in 2018, India’s female labour force articipation is only half of the global average (48%). At the same time, India has one of the wi1
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Telecommunications: the underlying transport means for services exports
Publication : Academic article | 2020This paper analyses the role of telecommunications as a means of transport for services exports with a focus on computer and other business services1
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Make or buy: offshoring of services functions in manufacturing
Publication : Academic article | 2020About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing: the matching of services func1
Projects All projects
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Shocking times for European economic integration (EUROSHOCKS)
Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)European integration has recently been hit by various shocks such as Brexit, Trump’s trade wars, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the competition from China. This project will exploit these shocks to genera...
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Responsible Innovation and Happiness: A New Approach to the Effects of ICTs (HAPPY)
Research project | 2015 - 2020 (Completed)The project intends to contribute to the responsible innovation literature by carrying out a set of conceptual and empirical studies on the socio-economic effects of ICTs, considering positive impacts...
Articles All articles
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Russia, Asia and International Trade
3 Jan 2022What is the role of Russia, the Arctic and Asia in global politics? How are these societies developing? How do international trade, innovation and po1
