Conference on “Contracts and Organizations”
The Centre of Business Economics hosted a conference on Contracts and Organizations to celebrate Trond Olsen's retirement and contributions to academic research.
The Centre for Business Economics (CBE) is a research group who combines elements from economics, strategy, marketing and management science, focusing on the functioning of firms, markets and organisations. The research in CBE is relevant for firms’ decisions and strategy as well as policy.
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Equinor scholarships for master theses
Master students interested in economics applied to environmental challenges and green investment opportunities are invited to apply for Equinor’s master thesis scholarship.
Competition specialists meeting at Beccle conference
Professor of law and competition expert Pinar Akman delivered the first keynote speech at the annual BECCLE conference on competition policy.
Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs
In a publication in the Journal of Health Economics, Kurt Richard Brekke, Dag Morten Dalen, and Odd Rune Straume study uniform and two-part pricing models in the pharmaceutical market under monopoly and competition
Recent Media
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Brekke, K. R., Dalen, D. M. and Straume, O. R., 2022, Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs. Journal of Health Economics
Arve, M., Foros, Ø. and Kind, H.J., 2022, Access price structure and entrant build-or-buy incentives in mobile markets. Journal of Regulatory Economics.
Juranek, S., Nilsen, Ø. A. and Ulsaker, S., 2022, Bank Consolidation, Interest Rates, and Risk: A Post-Merger Analysis Based on Loan-Level Data from the Corporate Sector. Journal of Competition Law & Economics.
Brekke, K. R., Canta, C., Siciliani, L. and Straume, O. R., 2021, Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform. Journal of Health Economics
Ellingsen, T. and Kristiansen, E. G., 2021, Fair and Square: A Retention Model of Managerial Compensation. Management Science
Sæthre, M., Reme, B. and Røhr, H. 2021, Inattention in Contract Markets: Evidence from a Consolidation of Options in Telecom. Management Science.
Arve, M. and O. Chiappinelli, 2021, The Role of Budget Constraints in Sequential Elimination Tournaments. Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Nilsen, Ø., Skuterud, H. and Webster, I. 2021, Price change synchronization within and between firms. Economics Letters
Foros, Ø., M. Nguyen-Ones and F. Steen. 2020. The Effects of a Day off from Retail Price Competition: Evidence on Consumer Behavior and Firm Performance in Gasoline Retailing. International Journal of the Economics of Business.
Foros, Ø. and M. Nguyen-Ones. 2020. Coordinate to obfuscate? The role of prior announcements of recommended prices. Economics Letters.
Watson, Joel, David A. Miller, and Trond E. Olsen. 2020. Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement. American Economic Review, 110 (7): 2153-2197.
Nilsen, Ø.A., A. Raknerud and D.-C. Iancu, 2020,
Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis,
Research Policy, 49(7).
Brekke, K.R., T.H. Holmås, K. Monstad and O. Rune, 2020,
How does the type of remuneration affect physician behavior?
American Journal of Health Economics, 6(1).
Gravelle, H. and F. Schroyen, 2020,
Optimal hospital payment rules under rationing by waiting
Journal of Health Economics, 70.