Frode Steen has been a professor since 2004. Presently he is the holder of NHH’s NorgesGruppen-professorship in Competition Economics on grocery Markets. He has since 2005 been a research fellow in the Centre for Economic Policy Design (CEPR). He received his PhD degree from NHH in 1995, and he has an MA in Economics from the University in Bergen from 1991.
He is working in the field of econometrics and empirical Industrial Organization, and have undertaken studies of several industries and markets; telecom/media, cement, shipping, airline, gasoline, grocery, salmon etc. The last ten years he has focused in particularly on airline and telecom/media industries. A primary interest in his work is related to market power, cartels and their functioning. His research publications have appeared in journals as e.g., American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization.
He has also an extensive experience as external competition expert in sector specific regulation and competition cases in Norway and Sweden. He has provided written and/or oral testimony in competition and regulation matters in court in both countries.
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Hyytinen, Ari; Steen, Frode; Toivanen, Otto | Cartels Uncovered | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Volume 10 (4); page 190 - 222; 2018 |
| Foros, Øystein; Steen, Frode | Vertical Control and Price Cycles in Gasoline Retailing | The Scandinavian Journal of Economics Volume 115 (3); page 640 - 661; 2013 |
| Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Steen, Frode | On the workings of a cartel: Evidence from the Norwegian cement industry | The American Economic Review Volume 96 (1); page 321 - 338; 2006 |
| Sørgard, Lars; Steen, Frode | Semicollusion in the Norwegian cement market | European Economic Review Volume 43 (9); page 1775 - 1796; 1999 |
| Steen, Frode; Salvanes, Kjell G. | Testing for market power using a dynamic oligopoly model | International Journal of Industrial Organization Volume 17 (2); page 147 - 177; 1999 |
Competition Law
On 11 March, the grocery industry will be attending a conference in Oslo on the topic ‘death of the high street and the industry shift’. ‘There is no shortage of excitement in the grocery industry,’ says head of FOOD Frode Steen.
Øystein Foros and Frode Steen: Customers do not get to know when petrol prices are at their lowest.
The article "An Anatomy of Cartel Contracts" by Ari Hyytinen, Frode Steen and Otto Toivanen has been accepted for publication by the Economic Journal.
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.
NHH researchers Øystein Foros (t.h) and Frode Steen believe that petrol stations in Norway are coordinating petrol prices, something that costs customers money. By publishing recommended retail prices on their web pages the players in the market can adjust their prices to one another. Today the market follows a cycle with the highest price occurring on Monday and the cheapest petrol on Sunday. Now, Foros and Steen stress that the companies must be forbidden from publishing recommended retail prices on the internet.
