Hege Medin
Senior Research FellowHege Medin earned her PhD in economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 2013 and is currently engaged in post-doc studies. Her main research field is international economics (international trade in particular), but she also has an interest in international investments, economic geography, labour, welfare, health and environmental economics.
Medin has conducted considerable research on company internationalization processes and the effects of various types of trade costs. She has undertaken analyses of Norway’s food trade, especially seafood export; and has worked on trade agreements, including the negotiations concerning a trade and investment partnership between the EU and the USA (TTIP). Her research frequently involves statistical analyses of register data.
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Preferential tariffs and development of Norwegian rose import from Africa
2020Purpose Imports of cut roses increased after Norway implemented a preferential tariff scheme for the Least Developed Countries in 2002. When the scheme was extended to more countries in 2008 – among them Kenya – imports exploded. This article studies the subsequent changes in supply channels, import... -
Research project
Consequences of Investments for National Security (COINS)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)How can liberal open societies reap the benefits of open economies, but at the same time protect their legitimate security interests? In the project “Consequences of Investments for National Security” (COINS) we are examining how liberal economies can attract foreign investments whilst at the same time...
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Free trade agreements increasingly important for Norway
29.01.2020The EEA Agreement is Norway’s most significant free trade agreement by far. However, free trade agreements with other countries are becoming increasingly important, notes NUPI Senior Research Fellow Hege Medin. -
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: Academic article
Free trade agreements in a small, open country: The case of Norway
2019Negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs) has been a high political priority for Norway. Today it has agreements with 41 countries outside the European Union (EU) / the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), resulting one the world’s most extensive FTA networks. FTAs cover about 10% of Norway’s trade... -
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: NUPI Working Paper
Internet use, intermediaries and international trade
This study of the relationship between internet use and international trade finds that firms in many developing countries are more likely to engage in export and/or import if they use the internet as a communication tool. An ordered probit regression indicates that internet use is positively associated... -
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: ARTIKKEL
Trade barriers or trade facilitators? The heterogeneous impact of food standards in international trade
2018Recent research shows that the effect of food standards can be heterogeneous across sectors or countries: they sometimes act as barriers to trade, but in other cases may lead to increased trade. Hege Medin presents empirical evidence on Norwegian seafood exports showing that foreign food standards, measured... -
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Upregulation of the lactate transporter monocarboxylate transporter 1 at the blood-brain barrier in a rat model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity...
2018The energy deficit hypothesis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) suggests that low lactate production by brain astrocytes causes the symptoms of the disorder. Astrocytes are the main producers of lactate in the brain; however, skeletal muscles can produce the most lactate in the body.... -
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: Rapport/avhandling
Customs-brokers as facilitators in international trade
2017Recent studies suggest that firms can reduce fixed trade costs by hiring intermediaries like trading companies. I argue that customs brokers – a type of intermediary rarely studied in economics before – can play a similar role. Using panel data of Norwegian trade transactions, I show that such brokers... -
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: ARTIKKEL
Market-specific Sunk Export Costs: The Impact of Learning and Spillovers
Firms may face sunk costs when entering an export market. Previous studies have focused on global or country-specific sunk export costs. This study analyses the importance of market-specific sunk export costs (defining ‘market’ as a product–country combination). We also study how market-specific export... -
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: Rapport/avhandling
TTIP and Norway: Impact and trade policy options
2016This study analyzes TTIP, its implications for Norway and Norway’s trade policy choices. TTIP will hardly be concluded under Obama's presidency, but the agreement could become a reality within a few years. TTIP aims at comprehensive cooperation in the regulatory area. In the short term there will... -
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: NUPI Report
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Research project
TTIP – implications and options for Norway
2016 (Completed)NUPI has, jointly with other research groups in Norway and abroad, analyzed the consequences for Norway of a free trade agreement between the EU and the USA (TTIP – Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
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NUPI to lead project on TTIP
22.02.2016NUPI will, jointly with other research groups in Norway and abroad, analyze the consequences for Norway of a free trade agreement between the EU and the USA. -
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NUPI to lead project on TTIP
22.02.2016NUPI will, jointly with other research groups in Norway and abroad, analyze the consequences for Norway of a free trade agreement between the EU and the USA. -
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: NUPI Working Paper
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: ARTIKKEL
Darwinistisk seleksjon i en global økonomi
2015(This article is available in Norwegian only): Det siste tiåret har det blitt utviklet en ny retning innen samfunnsøkonomisk teori om internasjonal handel, såkalt ny-ny handelsteori. Teorien er inspirert av empiriske studier av handelsdata på bedriftsnivå og kan forklare en rekke særtrekk vi observerer... -
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: Rapport/avhandling
Trade barriers or trade facilitators? On the heterogeneous impact of food standards in international trade
2015Recent research shows that food standards can be heterogeneous across sectors or countries: they sometimes act as barriers to trade, but in other cases may lead to increased trade. We present empirical evidence from Norwegian seafood export data showing that food standards, measured by SPS and TBT notifications,... -
Research project
Traders in the food value chain - firm size and international food distribution (TRADERS)
2014 - 2019 (Ongoing)The project focuses on patterns of distribution in Norway's seafood exports and agricultural trade (exports and imports).