It is no longer as simple as cheap refuel on certain days
Øystein Foros and Frode Steen: Customers do not get to know when petrol prices are at their lowest.
Competition Economics
Does competition in various markets work? How can the authorities design framework conditions that ensure real competition? Mergers and acquisitions, chain formation, monopolies and cartels are some of the topics being researched in this field.
Let small firms compete on equal terms
Malin Arve og Ignacio Herrera: To exclude small firms from public contracts destroys the market, both in the short run and in the long run.
Concentrating on electric buses may cost us solutions of the future
Electric buses are great - particularly if they beat the "open class" competition. However, we must not miss other, and maybe even better, solutions.
We may get duopoly in groceries - or Danish-Swedish situations
Øystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind: Should the Norwegian Competition Authority intervene against possibly big differences in the chain store's purchase prices? The answer may be "well yes and no", but society will lose more if the Authority is too kind.
Researchers
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Kurt Richard Brekke
Professor (on leave), Department of Economics
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Kenneth Fjell
Vice Rector for Research and Dean of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law
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Øystein Foros
Professor, Department of Business and Management Science
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Sissel Jensen
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
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Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen
Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and Management
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Lasse B. Lien
Professor, Department of Strategy and Management
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Mateusz Mysliwski
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
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Lars Sørgard
Professor (on leave) , Department of Economics
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Frode Steen
Professor, Department of Economics
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Simen Aardal Ulsaker
Assistant professor, Department of Economics