Sugar taxation in Norway
Most people seem to agree; a reduction in sugar content in grocery products is overall positive. However, which means to use to obtain such a reduction, is under debate.
Associate Professor II Simen Aardal Ulsaker
- Simen.Ulsaker@nhh.no
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- CBE
- Office
- D230
- Expertise
- Competition Economics Industrial Organization
Simen Aardal Ulsaker has been an assistant professorat at NHH since September 2016. He received his PhD from the Department of Economics at NHH in 2016, and has been a visiting scholar at Toulouse School of Economics.
Ulsaker does research in industrial organization with a focus on vertical restraints and grocery markets.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Halseth, Emil Mathias Strøm; Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: results from Norway's COVID-19 border closings | The Scandinavian Journal of Economics; 2024 |
| Evensen, Charlotte Bjørnhaug; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | Co-Location, Good, Bad, or Both: How do New Entries of Discount Variety Stores Affect Local Grocery Businesses? | Journal of the European Economic Association Volume 22 (4); page 1798 - 1843; 2023 |
| Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: Evidence from the business loans segment | Journal of Empirical Finance Volume 73; page 153 - 169; 2023 |
| Juranek, Steffen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Ulsaker, Simen Aardal | Bank Consolidation, Interest Rates, and Risk: A Post-Merger Analysis Based on Loan-Level Data from the Corporate Sector | Journal of Competition Law & Economics Volume 18 (4); page 771 - 794; 2022 |
Dissemination
On vertical restraints
On Thursday 1 September 2016 Simen Aardal Ulsaker will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.