Øyvind Thomassen

Associate professor, Department of Business and Management Science, NHH Norwegian School of Economics

[Until July 2020 I was at the Department of Economics, Seoul National University]

Research associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies

PhD (DPhil) in Economics, Oxford 2010. CV

Contact: oyvind.thomassen at gmail.com

Journal articles

An empirical model of automobile engine variant pricing. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 24(3) 275–293, September 2017.

Ø. Thomassen

IJEB Best Paper Award 2017.

Multi-category competition and market power: a model of supermarket pricing. American Economic Review, 107(8) 2308–2351, August 2017.

Ø. Thomassen, H. Smith, S. Seiler and P. Schiraldi

paper, appendix, code. Media: VoxEU, Stanford Business Insights, Dagens Næringsliv [pdf, in English]. Previously circulated as Smith and Thomassen (2015).

The effects of tax exemption on the sale of electric vehicles in Norway. Korean Economic Journal, 56(1) 3–20, July 2017.

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Asymmetric price increase in critical loss analysis: a reply to Langenfeld and Li. Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 10(3) 765–768, September 2014.

Ø. Daljord, L. Sørgard and Ø. Thomassen

A generalised nested logit model of the demand for automobile variants. Korean Economic Journal, 53(1) 21–50, July 2014.

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A pure characteristics demand model for automobile variants. Seoul Journal of Economics, 27(2) 187–222, June 2014.

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Multi-category demand and supermarket pricing. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 30(3) 309–314, May 2012.

H. Smith and Ø. Thomassen

The SSNIP test and market definition with the aggregate diversion ratio. Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 4(2) 263–270, June 2008.

Ø. Daljord, L. Sørgard and Ø. Thomassen

Other

Trygd for bedriftseiere. Dagens Næringsliv, 24. desember 2020

Høyres sosialisme for kapitalister. Dagens Næringsliv, 16. desember 2020

Ola Nordmanns tapte tiår. Dagens Næringsliv, 23. desember 2017, p. 37 [pdf]

Shopping costs and one-stop shoppers intensify competition. VoxEU, 24 July 2017.

Supre supermarkeder. Dagens Næringsliv, 17. juni 2017, p. 23 [pdf, in English].

Lecture notes

Econometrics (100 pages)

Microeconomics (175 pages)

Mathematics for economics (115 pages)

Probability and statistics (163 pages)

Empirical industrial organization: demand estimation (79 pages)

Numerical methods: part I, part II, note on functions of several variables

Very short introduction to BLP

Teaching

Corporate Governance Spring 2021

Econometrics Spring 2021

Microeconomics (undergraduate) Spring 2020, Fall 2019

Empirical industrial organization (graduate) Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014

Mathematics (undergraduate) Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015

Real analysis (undergraduate) Fall 2018

Numerical methods (undergraduate) Spring 2018

Statistics (undergraduate) Fall 2015, Fall 2014

Econometrics (undergraduate) Spring 2016, Spring 2015

Principles of macroeconomics Spring 2012, 2013, 2014

Political Economy Spring 2013, 2014