What is so special with the capitalists money?
Øyvind Thomassen: Investment in new business activity may just as well be made with employment income as with a company's profit.
Associate Professor Øyvind Thomassen
- Oyvind.Thomassen@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 94 71
- Department
- Business and Management Science
- Centre
- CBE
- Office
- C412
- Expertise
- Industrial Organization Management Science Competition Economics Applied Econometrics
Øyvind Thomassen is an Associate Professor at NHH, where he teaches Econometrics and Corporate Governance, and an International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has a PhD (DPhil) and MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Before joining NHH in 2020, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics at KU Leuven, and an Academic Visitor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.
In his research, he uses data to understand firm and consumer behaviour. He has done work on the grocery retailing, automobile, and construction sectors, and on topics such as cross-category pricing, nonlinear pricing, vertical contracting, environmental taxes and antitrust market definition. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Journal of Competition Law and Economics.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Thomassen, Øyvind; Smith, Howard; Seiler, Stephan; Schiraldi, Pasquale | Multi-category competition and market power: a model of supermarket pricing | The American Economic Review Volume 107 (8); page 2308 - 2351; 2017 |
| Thomassen, Øyvind | An Empirical Model of Automobile Engine Variant Pricing | International Journal of the Economics of Business Volume 24 (3); page 275 - 293; 2017 |
| Daljord, Øystein; Sørgard, Lars; Thomassen, Øyvind | Asymmetric price increase in critical loss analysis: A reply to Langenfeld and Li | Journal of Competition Law & Economics Volume 10 (3); page 765 - 768; 2014 |
| Smith, Howard; Thomassen, Øyvind | Multi-category demand and supermarket pricing | International Journal of Industrial Organization Volume 30 (3); page 309 - 314; 2012 |
| Daljord, Øystein; Sørgard, Lars; Thomassen, Øyvind | The SSNIP test and market definition with the aggregate diversion ratio: A reply to Katz and Shapiro | Journal of Competition Law & Economics Volume 4 (2); page 263 - 270; 2007 |
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Dissemination
There is no lack of capital
Øyvind Thomassen: It is contractors with good ideas, good noses and power of implementation that are lacking, not the capitalists money.
What is wrong with the Conservative Party?
Øyvind Thomassen: The Conservative Party should be the natural choice for all of us who believe in a Norwegian version of capitalism. Instead it has become the party supporting big capitalists.
The financial markets always have to be saved
Øyvind Thomassen: It is always the rich people, those with the biggest possessions of shares and property, who are saved by the central banks.
Wealth tax? Yes, but not for most people
Øyvind Thomassen: A new Norwegian Parliament, where the central point has shifted towards the centre and the left, has a unique opportunity to pass a progressive wealth tax that should have a far broader appeal among voters than the current wealth tax.