93 research outputs found
Analytisk modellering av strukturendringer : en studie av det norske dagligvaremarkedet
No full textDenne oppgaven ser på hvilke forhold som må være tilstede for at en detaljist skal ønske å binde seg til en eksklusivavtale (EA). Dette gjøres ved å modellere strukturendringene som har foregått i det norske dagligvaremarkedet. Det viser seg at EA ikke er aktuelt dersom det er færre detaljister enn produsenter. Sammenliknet med andre modeller viser dette at differensieringen mellom detaljistene er av avgjørende betydning for om EA er ønskelig fra detaljistenes side. Videre sees det på hvilke konsekvenser strukturendringene og detaljistenes binding til EA har på prisene i sluttbrukermarkedet og den samfunnsmessige velferden. Dersom produktene er tilstrekkelig homogene vil prisene i sluttbrukermarkedet gå opp som følge av at detaljistene fusjonerer og binder seg til EA. Det motsatte vil være tilfelle dersom produktene er tilstrekkelig heterogene. Videre sees det på hvordan prisene og velferden totalt for samfunnet blir påvirket dersom konsentrasjonen i produsentleddet øker etter at detaljistene har fusjonert og bundet seg til EA. Det viser seg at det kan være samfunnsøkonomisk lønnsomt å la to produsenter fusjonere dersom produktene som tilvirkes og utsalgsstedene er tilstrekkelig heterogene
Et levende kunst- og kulturhus for en levende by. Et casestudie om det verdidrevne eiendomsprosjektet K.U.K.
No full textSAMMENDRAG
K punktum, U punktum, K, sa dronning Sonja i sin åpningstale for Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst i november 2021. Hun gjorde et morsomt nummer ut av at det slett ikke var noe enkelt navn å uttale for en gammel dame. Men både navnet og kunsthuset har blitt lagt merke til. Det har allerede rukket å bli et fenomen og en suksess på kunstarenaen i Trondheim, og i landet for øvrig, noe også dronningen så for seg at det kunne bli.
Det er kunstneren Kjell Erik Killi-Olsen som har initiert og finansiert kunsthuset. Hans visjon er å fremme unge kunstnerskap og gjøre kunst langt mer tilgjengelig for folk flest.
Formålet med dette casestudiet har derfor vært å belyse følgende problemstilling:
Hvordan har visjonen om et kunst- og kulturhus for unge kunstnerskap ført til at K.U.K. har blitt et av Norges fremste visningssteder for kunst?
Denne problemstillingen er besvart gjennom to etablerte forskningsspørsmål. Det ene beskriver hva slags innflytelse kunsten og kunstneren har hatt på prosessen med å skape K.U.K. Og det andre handler om hva det er ved eiendommen som bidrar til å øke tilgjengelighet for kunst- og kulturformidling.
Oppgavens metodedesign er basert på kvalitative metoder. I tillegg til litteratursøk og dokumentstudier er det gjennomført fjorten dybdeintervjuer hvor alle informanter har en nær relasjon til prosessen med å skape K.U.K. Det er gjennomført en metodetriangulering med bakgrunn i å utnytte fordelene og samtidig ta hensyn til svakhetene ved de ulike metodene. Empirien dannet deretter grunnlaget for analyse og diskusjon.
Studien viser at K.U.K. er et verdidrevet eiendomsutviklingsprosjekt hvor eieren, som selv er kunstner, har vært en sterk pådriver i alle prosjektets faser.
Det finnes lite etablert teori som prosjektet kan relateres direkte til. Gjennom dette studiet har vi imidlertid opparbeidet og etablert kunnskap om verdidrevet eiendomsstrategi. K.U.K. er en hybrid av kunst/visjon- og forretningsdrevet strategi for et eiendomsutviklingsprosjekt. Det er i denne sammenheng definert og beskrevet faktorer som er vesentlige for å oppnå ønsket målsetning. Disse faktorene kan også være overførbare til andre verdidrevne eiendomsprosjekter.
Oppgaven viser videre at det ved verdidrevne eiendomsutviklingsprosjekt bør etableres eiendomsstrategier, strategiske drivkrefter og operasjonelle beslutninger. Alle disse elementene har fungert som et strategisk virkemiddel for å oppnå selve visjonen for kunsthuset. De må sees i sammenheng med hverandre for å ha størst mulig virkning, og videre knyttes til den overordnede virksomhetsstrategien. Med bakgrunn i dette har vi sammenstilt K.U.K. med en studie av Nourse og Roulac (1993). Ut fra den har vi utviklet en modell med elementer som er relevante for K.U.K.
Avslutningsvis er det definert og beskrevet ulike momenter som er sentrale for å imøtekomme husets visjoner. Vi har også tatt for oss selve prosessen som er grunnleggende for kunst- og verdidrevne eiendomsutviklingsprosjekter.
Kultursektoren i Norge må i et fremtidsperspektiv tenke nytt og annerledes for å imøtekomme krav til økonomisk omstilling, ifølge Meld. St. 8 (2018-2019) Kulturens kraft – Kulturpolitikk for framtida. Kunstneren Kjell Erik Killi-Olsen har «tatt dem på ordet». Med sin nasjonale og internasjonale anerkjennelse som kunstner, og sin virksomhet Reidar Olsen Invest AS, har han skapt K.U.K. Og med K.U.K. har han bidratt til å utvikle kunst- og kultursektoren i Norge. Nærmere kulturens kraft knyttet til framtidas kulturpolitikk er det vanskelig å komme.ABSTRACT
K period, U period, K, Queen Sonja said in her opening speech for Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst in November 2021. She made a humorous act out of the fact that it was not at all an easy name to pronounce for an elderly woman. But both the name and the art house has been noticed. It has already managed to become a phenomenon and a success in the art arena in Trondheim, and in the country, which the queen also imagined it could become.
It is the artist Kjell Erik Killi-Olsen that initiated and financed the art house. His vision is to promote young artists and to make art far more accessible to most people.
The purpose of this case study has been to shed light on the following thesis statement:
How has the vision of an art and culture house for young artists led to K.U.K. becoming one of Norway’s foremost art exhibition venues?
This thesis statement is answered through two established research questions. The first one describes what kind of influence the art and the artist has had on the process of creating K.U.K. The other is about how the property contributes to increasing accessibility for art and culture.
The assignment’s method design is based on qualitative methods. In addition to literature searches and document studies, fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with informants that has a close relationship to the process of creating K.U.K. A method triangulation has been carried out with the intention to exploit the advantages, and at the same time considering the weaknesses, of the various methods. The data then formed the basis for analysis and discussion.
The study shows that K.U.K is a value-driven property development project where the owner, who is an artist himself, has been a strong driving force in all phases of the project.
The established literature to which the project can be directly related to is scarce. Through this study, however, we have collected and established knowledge about value-driven property strategy. K.U.K. incorporates a hybrid of art/vision- and business-driven strategy for a property development project. In this context, the factors that are essential for achieving the desired objective is defined and described. These factors may also be transferable to other value-driven real estate projects.
The assignment also shows that real estate strategies, strategic driving forces and operating decisions should be established for value-driven property projects. All these elements have functioned as a strategic tool to achieve the actual vision for the art house. They must be seen in conjunction with each other to have the greatest possible impact, and further be directly linked to the corporate strategy. Based on this we have compiled K.U.K. with the study by Nourse and Roulac (1993), and developed a model with elements that are relevant to K.U.K.
In conclusion, various elements that are central to meeting the art house’s vision is defined and described. We have also included the process itself, which is fundamental to art- and value-driven property development projects.
In a future perspective, the cultural sector in Norway must think differently and in new ways to meet demands for economic restructuring, according to Meld. St. 8 (2018-2019) The Power of Culture – Cultural Policy for the Future. The artist Kjell Erik Killi-Olsen has “taken them at their word”. With his national and international recognition as an artist, and his business Reidar Olsen Invest AS, he has created K.U.K. And with K.U.K he has contributed to developing the arts and culture sector in Norway. It is difficult to get any closer to the power of culture in connection to the cultural policy for the future
Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements: Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?
No full textThis paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1) countries decide to delay their GHG emission reductions by 30 years. What would be the cost difference between this scenario and a case in which both developed and developing countries start reducing their emissions at the same time? Then, we look at a scenario in which the timing of developing countries’ participation is uncertain and again we compute the costs of climate policy in developed and developing countries. We findthat delayed participation of NA1 countries has a negative impact on climate policy costs. Economic inefficiencies can be as large as 10-25 TlnUSD. However, this additional cost wanes when developing countries are allowed to trade emission reductions from their baseline emission paths during the 30-year delay period. Thus, irrespective of whether NA1 countriesare immediately assigned an emission reduction target or not, they should nonetheless be included in a global carbon market. Technology deployment is also affected by the timing of developing countries’ mitigation measures. Delayed NA1-country participation in a climateagreement would scale down the deployment of coal with CCS throughout the century. Onthe other hand, innovation in the form of energy R&D investments would be positivelyaffected, since it would become crucial in developed countries. Finally, uncertainty about the timing of NA1-country participation does not modify the optimal abatement strategy for developed countries and does not alter policy costs as long as a global carbon market is in place.delayed action, climate policy, stabilisation costs, uncertain participation
Teaching Engineering as a design science
No full textIn this paper, we take the position that teaching engineering itself is a design science. Engineering educators worldwide creatively design, implement, and evaluate new ways of teaching to facilitate the learning of their students and to respond to various societal challenges. Sadly, their teaching and course design discoveries often remain with them. By representing successful experiences in engineering education as structured pedagogical patterns, we could develop this vital professional knowledge collectively into a so-called pattern language. The pattern language method acknowledges the complexity of instructional design and divides it into smaller and more understandable pieces. One piece is called a ‘pattern’. This paper aims to set the argument of why and how to develop a pedagogical pattern language for engaging and activating engineering education. In Delft, we see this pedagogical language as a part of TU Delft’s so-called ecosystem approach toward learning and teaching. TU Delft recognizes the need among students for impact-driven education that matches the way this generation learns and what our society needs. Successful ecosystem pedagogies will be the core of the intended pedagogical pattern language. It is our idea to develop this pattern language in close cooperation with the teaching communities of TU Delft, that is the TUD Teaching Academy, the 4TU Centre of Engineering Education, and CDIO.Spatial Planning and StrategyEducation and Student Affair
Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration
No full textThis paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low skilled labor is high as empirical evidence suggests.immigration, trade union, unemployment, welfare state, elasticity of substitution
Characters as social beings: social performance in the French and Czechoslovak New Waves
No full textThis thesis investigates the aesthetic presence of social performance in six French and Czechoslovak New Wave films of the 1960s. The New Wave was particularly interested in portraying everyday life, and the film corpus studied in this thesis focuses specifically on the representation of the characters' social lives. In addition, the films share the commonality of being made with an aesthetic of authenticity inspired more or less by the 1960s observational documentary genre of cinéma vérité.
In the film corpus, ordinary social situations occupy a more prominent place on screen than usual, and instigate a social kind of engagement with the films. Where narrative context conventionally provides the framework for a characterâs actions, in these unconventional films, it is the characters' social environments that more precisely contextualize their way of being. The aim of the thesis is to engage with these social contexts to understand the characters' social behaviours, and to examine how the 'vérité aesthetic' evokes a social kind of reading of the films.
To this end, I develop in the first chapter a Goffmanian approach to the films, inspired by sociologist Erving Goffman's writings on social reality as a performative realm. I use his notions of social performance, social framework, and social perception to engage with each film through what I call a 'social gaze' that inspects the social dynamics of the charactersâ behaviours. Over the course of three case study chapters, I apply this approach to the films to unearth and discuss their social range of meaning.
This thesis thus aims to contribute both to film historical scholarship on the 1960s European New Wave, and to a study of the aestheticization of social reality in film in general.</p
The Marginal Product of Capital: A Persistent International Puzzle
No full textLarge and sustained differences in marginal products of capital (MPKs) across countries are sharply at odds with the core implications of the neoclassical framework. Lucas (1990) and many subsequent studies have examined reasons for this MPK differential. In a recent contribution, Caselli and Feyrer (2007) take the ground out from under this debate by reconsidering measurement issues and concluding that the MPK differential vanishes. Despite Caselli and Feyrer’s important advances in measurement, the international MPK puzzle persists. We show that the measurement of MPKs in their framework is substantially affected by adjustment costs in the accumulation of capital. With the proper technology and a plausible parameterization of adjustment costs, the MPK in poor countries is much higher than the MPK in rich countries. Why capital flows do not eliminate the MPK differential remains a persistent international puzzle. We examine the quantitative importance of financial frictions, relative prices, and adjustment costs in accounting for the MPK differential and document that adjustment costs provide the leading explanation.marginal product of capital, adjustment costs, macroeconomic analysis of economic development, international capital flows
The First Cut; the locus of decision at the limits of subjectivity
No full textThis project examines the concept of decision in philosophical writing, in particular the question of whether subjectivity can be said to constitute a ‘locus’ of decision. The writing of Søren Kierkegaard is the main focus of discussion. Giorgio Agamben, Michel Henry and Jacques Derrida also provide important contributions.
Although for Kierkegaard ‘all decisiveness is rooted in subjectivity’, subjective agency takes the form of an active surrendering to an external unknown authority (God). Kierkegaard uses the term ‘leap of faith’ to describe the moment of decision where subjective transformation occurs.
For Derrida, any decision requires an undecidable leap beyond all reasoning made in preparation for that decision. He extends a reading of faith beyond the theistic by suggesting that Kierkegaard’s unknowable God could also be another name for the ‘structure of subjectivity.’
Giorgio Agamben’s writing on the concept of human life situated at the threshold of categories (socio-political, philosophical, physiological and so on), helps to further the exploration of subjectivity as the ‘locus’ of decision. Michel Henry’s work on The Essence of Manifestation provides a focus for a discussion on the ‘radical subjectivity’ that Kierkegaard proposes as the fulcrum of decision.
The research project as a whole maintains a synergy between these philosophical concerns and the form of their explication. The thesis is made up of both written text and DVD documentation of live works. These instances of practice, whose form and mode of presentation were informed by a specific aspect of the research, are integrated into the thesis to constitute ‘chapters’. The practice can and does function independently in other contexts. However, what is presented in this research document constitutes the outcome of my practice-based PhD project and includes both the ‘theoretical’ and ‘practice’ elements.
Supervisors: Neil Cummings and Howard Caygil
Smoking Restrictions, Bans Rise in Hospitality Industry
No full textWith the rise of smoking restrictions and bans in the hospitality industry the author discusses solutions that are implemented to protect the workforce and guests from involuntary smoking. Historical and societal contexts are drawn, and enforcement of smoking bans as well as their economic impact is explored in an international perspective, primarily since US researchers have propelled the research on smoking and health issues. The author illustrates that there has been no way to avoid enforcements of strict smoking restrictions, and the struggle to do so could just delay the process and waste resources
Semiotic Naturalism in Architecture Theory
No full textThis paper seeks to present a kind of skeptical, and, in an indirect way, Wittgensteinian perspective upon purpose and meaning in architecture. The argument presented here revolves around the two notions that, first, there are different categories, which we have available for making architecture seem intelligible to us, and, second, that there are distinct historical discourses in which architecture has been made intelligible in specific ways
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