Øyvind Thomassen is an Associate Professor at NHH, where he teaches Econometrics and Corporate Governance, and an International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has a PhD (DPhil) and MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Before joining NHH in 2020, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics at KU Leuven, and an Academic Visitor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.
In his research, he uses data to understand firm and consumer behaviour. He has done work on the grocery retailing, automobile, and construction sectors, and on topics such as cross-category pricing, nonlinear pricing, vertical contracting, environmental taxes and antitrust market definition. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Journal of Competition Law and Economics.
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