Norway is abundantly endowed with natural resources and the utilization of its resource base has strongly influenced the industrial structure, foreign trade, economic development and welfare of the country. The country has not suffered many of the curses that plague other resource-rich countries, such as corruption or the “Dutch disease”. Norway has consistently been ranked by the UN as the best country in the world to live in, and the World Economic Forum has ranked Norway as one of the top 20 most competitive countries globally.

The summer course will undertake an economic analysis and evaluation of the resource management and policy regimes developed by a natural resource-rich country like Norway. Students from around the world will be brought together to find out more about how the world's third largest oil exporter avoided the resource curse.

Cooperation with the business community - excursions. The summer school will be delivered by NHH faculty along with guest lecturers from other academic institutions and the business community. The programme has been developed and organised in partnership with a range of companies active in the industries examined in the course, and company visits and case studies form a major part of the course schedule.

The NHH Graduate Summer School has been evaluated by former students taking the course, and this feedback has all over been very positive.

• All necessary information, including the application procedure, can be found in on the NHH website:

http://nhh.no/en/study-at-nhh/graduate-summer-school.aspx

• The duration of the course will be two and a half weeks and it will be held in Bergen, Norway from 15th of June to 1st of July 2012
• The application deadline is set to 15th of May 2012. The application form is available online and supporting documents should be sent to: summerschool@nhh.no. Applications received after this deadline will also be considered, given that there are spots left.
• Students must be nominated by their home institution before they apply. Students without a formal nomination may also apply and will be admitted upon space availability
• There is no application, admission or tuition fee
• Housing is guaranteed at Hatleberg Student Residence
• The course load is 7,5 ECTS
• Students will be given an evaluation only based on a pass/fail grade.