Main topics of research:
- Competition policy
- Entrepreneurship
- Company organizations and finance
- International economics
- Agricultural economics
- Environmental and resource economics
The research group works both theoretically and empirically. The competition policy research is included in Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE), which is a collaboration between the Department of Economics and Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics.
Selected publications:
Tom Meling: Anonymous Trading in Equities, The Journal of Finance, 2021, 76.
Andreea Cosnita-Langlais, Bjørn Olav Johansen, and Lars Sørgard: Upward pricing pressure in two-sided markets: Incorporating rebalancing effects, International journal of industrial organization, 2021, 74.
Eeva Mauring: Informational Cycles in Search Markets, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020, 12.
Arthur Cazaubiel, Morgane Cure, Bjørn Olav Johansen, and Thibaud Vergé: Substitution Between Online Distribution Channels: Evidence from the Oslo Hotel Market, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020, 69.
Hans K. Hvide and Ben Jones: University innovation and the professor's privilege, American Economic Review, 2018, 108, 1860-1898.
Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen, Bjørn Olav Johansen and Teis L. Lømo: Resale Price Maintenance in Two-Sided Markets, The Journal of Industrial Economics, 66(3), 570-609, 2018.
Kjell Erik Lommerud, Odd Rune Straume, and Steinar Vagstad: Employment Protection and Unemployment Benefits: On Technology Adoption and Job Creation in a Matching Model, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2018, 120, 763-793.
Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen and Bjørn Olav Johansen: Resale price maintenance with secret contracts and retail service externalities, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2017, 9(1), 63-97.