Norwegian business school specializing in economic inequality modeling, tax policy research, and the societal impacts of digital transformation.
BI Norwegian Business School is one of Europe's largest business schools, based in Oslo. In H2020, they focus on the intersection of economics, public policy, and digital society — studying tax systems, economic inequality, and how digital transformation reshapes work and democracy. Their research combines rigorous macroeconomic modeling (heterogeneous agent models, consumption-income-wealth dynamics) with socially engaged methods like arts-based research, making them a bridge between quantitative economics and societal impact analysis.
3D-In-Macro (ERC Starting Grant, their largest project at EUR 1.38M) focuses on measuring inequality across consumption, income, and wealth dimensions using heterogeneous agent models.
FairTax project examined fair and sustainable taxation across the EU, covering tax law, compliance, gender dimensions, and EC jurisdictional questions.
Ps2Share studied power dynamics in the sharing economy, while ARTSFORMATION investigates how arts-based methods can make digital transformation more inclusive — covering AI, future of work, and democratic resilience.
ARTSFORMATION deploys arts-based methods to address democracy in crisis and inclusive digital futures, signaling a move toward interdisciplinary and creative research approaches.
BI's early H2020 work (2015–2017) centered on fiscal policy and the sharing economy — practical questions about tax fairness, compliance, and new economic models. From 2020 onward, their focus shifted decisively toward two fronts: deep macroeconomic theory (inequality modeling via the ERC grant) and the societal consequences of digital transformation (AI, future of work, democratic resilience). The shift suggests a school moving from applied policy analysis toward more fundamental and interdisciplinary research questions.
BI is investing heavily in understanding economic inequality through advanced modeling while simultaneously exploring how digital transformation affects democracy and inclusion — expect future work at this intersection.
BI predominantly leads its projects, coordinating 3 out of 4 H2020 grants. With 23 unique consortium partners across 15 countries, they operate as a hub rather than a repeat-partner organization, assembling diverse teams for each project. This makes them a confident consortium leader who can manage multi-country research efforts, though their willingness to join as a participant (as in FairTax) shows flexibility when the topic fits.
BI has collaborated with 23 unique partners across 15 countries, indicating a broad European network with no heavy geographic concentration. For a business school with just 4 projects, this is a notably wide and non-repetitive partner base.
BI occupies a rare niche: a business school that combines hard quantitative economics (heterogeneous agent models, macroeconomic theory) with socially engaged research on digital transformation and democratic participation. Unlike typical economics departments, they bridge fiscal policy, inequality measurement, and arts-based methods under one roof. For consortium builders, this means access to both rigorous economic modeling capability and the ability to handle societal impact dimensions that funders increasingly demand.
