Sugar taxation in Norway
Most people seem to agree; a reduction in sugar content in grocery products is overall positive. However, which means to use to obtain such a reduction, is under debate.
Associate Professor II Simen Aardal Ulsaker
- Simen.Ulsaker@nhh.no
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- CBE
- Office
- D230
- Expertise
- Competition Economics Industrial Organization
Simen Aardal Ulsaker has been an assistant professorat at NHH since September 2016. He received his PhD from the Department of Economics at NHH in 2016, and has been a visiting scholar at Toulouse School of Economics.
Ulsaker does research in industrial organization with a focus on vertical restraints and grocery markets.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | Cross-Border Shopping of Alcohol—What is the Effect on Tax Revenue and Sales and Which Products Are Most Affected? | Review of International Economics (0 pages); 2025 |
| Ay, Fehime Ceren; Freddi, Eleonora; Følstad, Asbjørn; Hodnebrog, Stig; Kvale, Knut; Sell, Olav Alexander; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | Conversation logs as a source of insight: Predicting user satisfaction for customer service chatbots | Quality and User Experience Volume 10 (14 pages); 2025 |
| Moe, Nils Brede; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal; Smite, Darja; Hildrum, Jarle Moss; Ay, Fehime Ceren | Understanding the Difference between Office Presence and Co-presence in Team Member Interactions | Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; page 7280 - 7289; 2024 |
| Friberg, Richard; Halseth, Emil Mathias Strøm; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: results from Norway's COVID-19 border closings | The Scandinavian Journal of Economics; 2024 |
Dissemination
On vertical restraints
On Thursday 1 September 2016 Simen Aardal Ulsaker will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.