Simen Aardal Ulsaker
Associate Professor,
Oslo Business School, OsloMet
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Department of Economics, NHH
My research is in industrial organization and applied microeconomics, with a focus on competition, consumer behaviour, and vertical relationships.
Alongside my position at OsloMet I hold an adjunct appointment at the Department of Economics at NHH, and I am an associated researcher with the FOOD research project there.
Working Papers and Work in Progress
- “Unemployment shocks, cyclical prices and shopping behavior” Revise and resubmit.
- “Do Informed Consumers Pay Less? Evidence from a Survey with Linked Grocery Purchase Data”
- “Climate-Impact Knowledge and Consumer Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Information Experiment Linked to Scanner Data”
- “Passive Backward Integration and Double Marginalization”
- “Exclusionary contracts and investment”
Publications
- “Exclusionary Contracts and Incentives to Innovate” Games, 17(1), 8 (2026).
- “Cross-border Shopping of Alcohol – What is the Effect on Tax Revenue and Sales and Which Products Are Most Affected?” Review of International Economics, 33(5) (2025), pp. 1021–1034.
- “The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: results from Norway's COVID-19 border closings” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 126(4) (2024) – awarded the SJE prize for the best article published in 2024.
- “Co-location, good, bad or both: How does new entry of discount variety store affect local grocery business?” Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(4) (2024), pp. 1798–1843 · working paper version
- “Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: Evidence from the business loans segment” Journal of Empirical Finance, 73 (2023), pp. 153–169 · working paper version
- “Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(2) (2022), pp. 408–38 · working paper version
- “Bank consolidation, interest rates, and risk: A post-merger analysis based on loan-level data from the corporate sector” Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 18(4) (2022), pp. 771–794 · working paper version
- “Lump-sum payments and retail services: A relational contracting perspective” Journal of Industrial Economics, 69 (2021), pp. 131–168 · working paper version
- “Competing buyers, rent extraction and inefficient exclusion” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 68 (2020).
- “Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly: Who pays the price?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 48 (2016), pp. 143–172 · working paper version
- “Interlocking relationships and quantity rationing” Economics Letters, 146 (2016), pp. 47–49.
- “Menu contracts and the division of profits in vertical relationships” Economics Letters, 138 (2016), pp. 72–74.
Publications in Norwegian
- “Annerledeslandet Norge: Butikktilgjengelighet og markedskonsentrasjon i Sverige og Norge” Book chapter in Mot bedre vitende i norsk matsektor (ed. Frode Steen and Ivar Pettersen), (2020), pp. 35–70.
- “Produktivitetsutvikling i norsk matsektor” Book chapter in Mot bedre vitende i norsk matsektor (ed. Frode Steen and Ivar Pettersen), (2020), pp. 71–123.
- “Sukkeravgiften skal øke statens inntekter og redusere sukkerforbruket – men virker den?” Praktisk økonomi & finans, 35(1) (2019), pp. 69–84.
Publications in Other Fields
- “Conversation logs as a source of insight: Predicting user satisfaction for customer service chatbots” Quality and User Experience, 10(1) (2025).
- “Understanding the difference between office presence and co-presence in team member interactions” 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), (2024).
- “A method for validation of socio-economic impact from connectivity solutions in rural communities” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), (2024).
Affiliations
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, NHH
- Associated researcher, The FOOD Research Project, NHH
Teaching
Oslo Business School, OsloMet
- Næringsøkonomi (Industrial Organization) Spring 2025 and 2026
- Microeconomics (master) Fall 2024, 2025 and 2026, with Jacopo Bizzotto
- Microeconomics II (bachelor) Fall 2024 and 2025, with Jacopo Bizzotto
- Game Theory Fall 2026, with Jacopo Bizzotto
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
- Retail Analytics Spring 2021, 2022 and 2025, with Frode Steen and Richard Friberg
- Competitive Strategy Spring 2019 and 2020, with Sissel Jensen
- Firm Strategy and Competition Fall 2017 and 2018
- Applied Data Analysis for Firm Strategy and Competition Spring 2017 and 2018, with Morten Sæthre
Contact
Work: simen.ulsaker@oslomet.no
Personal: simen.ulsaker@gmail.com
Oslo Business School, OsloMet
Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo, Norway