Research

New papers in progress

Does reference pricing drive out generic competition in pharmaceutical markets? Evidence from a policy reform (with Chiara Canta, Odd Rune Straume)

Trade between a regulated hydropower system and a system with intermittent power (with Odd Rune Straume, Lars Sørgard)

Taking the competitor's pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets (with Dag Morten Dalen, Odd Rune Straume)

Merger control and use of remedies: experiences from Norway (with Eileen Fumagalli, Jan Gaute Sannarnes)

Coverage of dental care: universal or targeted? (with Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume)

Published papers in journals

Competition, quality and integrated health care (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.

Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests (co-authors: Dag Morten Dalen, Odd Rune Straume), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

The price of cost-effectiveness thresholds (co-authors: Dag Morten Dalen, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, Volume 90, July 2023, 102778. 

Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs (co-authors: Dag Morten Dalen, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 83, May 2022. (Awarded the 2023 EEG Research Prize in Economics at the University of Minho).

Hospital competition in a National Health Service: Evidence from a patient choice reform (co-authors: Chiara Canta, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 79, September 2021.  

Fusjonskontrollen: Hjelper avhjelpende tiltak? (co-authors: Eileen Fumagalli, Jan Gaute Sannarnes), Samfunnsøkonomen, 2021 (in Norwegian).

How does the type of remuneration affect physician behaviour? Fixed salary versus fee-for-service (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Karin Monstad, Odd Rune Straume), American Journal of Health Economics, 6, 104-138, 2020.

Competition and physician behaviour: does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates? (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Karin Monstad, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 66, 117-135, 2019.

Effekter av konkurransereglene for norske forbrukere (co-authors: Lars Sørgard, Andreas J. Tveito), Samfunnsøkonomen, 1, 2019 (in Norwegian).

Can competition reduce quality? (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 174, 421-447, 2018.

Socioeconomic status and physicians' treatment decisions (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Karin Monstad, Odd Rune Straume), Health Economics, 27, e77-e89, 2018.

Capital taxation and imperfect competition: ACE vs. CBIT, (co-authors: Armando Pires, Dirk Schindler, Guttorm Schjelderup), Journal of Public Economics, 147, 1-15, March 2017.

Horizontal mergers and product quality (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Canadian Journal of Economics, 50, 1063-1103, 2017.

Do treatment decisions depend on physicians' financial incentives? (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Karin Monstad, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Public Economics, 155, 74-91, 2017.

Hospital mergers with regulated prices (co-authors Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119, 597-627, 2017.

Competition policy for health care provision in Norway (co-author: Odd Rune Straume), Health Policy, 121, 134-140, 2017.

Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry (co-authors: Chiara Canta, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 50, 312-329, 2016.

Patient mobility and health care quality when regions and patients differ in income (co-authors: Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 50, 372-387, 2016.

Price regulation and parallel imports of pharmaceuticals (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Public Economics, 129, 92-105, 2015.

Hospital competition with soft budgets (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117, 1019-1048, 2015.

Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare (co-authors: Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 105, 140-157, 2014.

Margins and market shares: pharmacy incentives for generic substitution (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Odd Rune Straume), European Economic Review, 61, 116-131, 2013.

Diffusion of pharmaceuticals: cross-country evidence of anti-TNF drugs (co-authors: Dag Morten Dalen, Tor Helge Holmås), European Journal of Health Economics, 15, 937-951, 2013.

Quality competition with profit constraints (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 84, 642-659, 2012.

Competition in regulated markets with sluggish beliefs about quality (co-authors: Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 21, 131-178, 2012.

Should pharmaceutical costs be curbed? (co-authors: Dag Morten Dalen, Steinar Strøm), Nordic Economic Policy Review 2, 1-27, 2012.

Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113, 444-469, 2011.

Reference pricing, competition and pharmaceutical expenditures: theory and evidence from a natural experiment (co-authors: Tor Helge Holmås, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Public Economics, 95, 624-638, 2011.

Price and quality in spatial competition (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40, 471-480, 2010.

Competition and quality in health care markets: a differential-game approach (co-authors: Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 29, 508-523, 2010.

Regulation and pricing of pharmaceuticals: price cap or reference pricing? (co-authors: Astrid L. Grasdal and Tor Helge Holmås), European Economic Review, 53, 170-185, 2009.

Pharmaceutical patents: incentives for research and development or marketing? (co-author: Odd Rune Straume), Southern Economic Journal, 76, 351-374, 2009.

Competition and waiting times in hospital markets (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Public Economics, 92, 1607-1628, 2008.

Private versus public health care in a National Health Service (co-author: Lars Sørgard), Health Economics, 16, 579-601, 2007.

Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals (co-authors: Ingrid Königbauer, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 26, 613-642, 2007.

Gatekeeping in health care (co-authors: Robert Nuscheler, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Health Economics, 26, 149-170, 2007.

Quality and location choices under price regulation (co-authors: Robert Nuscheler, Odd Rune Straume), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 15, 207-227, 2006.

Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets (co-author: Michael Kuhn), Journal of Health Economics, 25, 102-130, 2006. (Reprinted in Recent Developments in the Economics of Advertising, editor Simon P. Anderson, Edward Elgar Publishing, 110-138, 2016).

Bilateral monopolies and location choice (co-author: Odd Rune Straume), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 34, 275-288, 2004.

Competition or coordination in hospital markets with unionised labour, International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics, 4, 65-89, 2004.

Fra forvaltning til monopol i den norske sykehussektoren, Økonomisk Forum, 4, 13-19, 2002 (in Norwegian).

Hva vet vi om konkurranseutsetting?, Magma, Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 2, 29-39, 1999 (in Norwegian).

Book chapters

"Now you are asking for a real war!": Private alarm systems in Norway (co-author: Lars Sørgard). Chapter in Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. and Maarten Pieter Schinkel (eds.) Cartels Diagnosed: New Insight on Collusion, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. 

Quality and price competition in spatial markets (co-authors: Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), In: Spatial Economics Vol. 1: Theory (edited by S Colombo), Palgrave McMillan, Ch. 12, 295-332, 2020.

Measuring market power in multi-sided markets, In: Rethinking Antitrust Tools for Multi-Sided Platforms. OECD report, Chapter 4, 2018.

Hospital quality competition: a review of the theoretical literature (co-authors: Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume) In: Competition between Hospitals: Does it Affect Quality of Care? (edited by B Dormont and C Milcent), Collection du CEPREMAP Nº 49, Éditions Rue d'Ulm, pp. 25-67, 2018.

Differential games in health care markets: models of quality competition with fixed prices (co-authors: Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume). In: Advances in Dynamic and Mean Field Games (edited by J Apaloo and B Viscolani), Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, Vol. 15, Birkhäuser - Springer International Publishing, pp. 145-167, 2017.

Patient choice, mobility and competition among health care providers (co-authors: Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume), In: Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility – Health Integration in the European Union (edited by R. Levaggi and M. Montefiori), Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, Vol. 12, Springer, pp. 1-26, 2014.

Er konkurranse en god ide i helsesektoren? (co-author: Jan Erik Askildsen), in Jan Erik Askildsen, Kjell Haug (red): Helse, økonomi og politikk. Utfordringer for det norske helsevesen. Cappelen Akademiske forlag, Oslo. Chapter 11, 2001 (in Norwegian).