Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Ulsaker, Simen A."
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Bank consolidation, interest rates, and risk: A post-merger analysis based on loan-level data from the corporate sector
Juranek, Steffen; Nilsen, Øivind A.; Ulsaker, Simen A. (SAM DP;20/2021, Working paper, 2021-11-29)In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences ... -
Co-location, good, bad or both: How does new entry of discount variety store affect local grocery business?
Evensen, Charlotte B.; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (SAM DP;17/2021, Working paper, 2021)We analyze 69 entries and relocations by the Norwegian discount variety chain Europris during the period 2016 to 2019. We measure how its location choices affect local grocery stores’ performance, using a diff-in-diff ... -
Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: evidence from the business loans segment
Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind A.; Ulsaker, Simen A. (SAM DP;10/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-18)This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather ... -
Cross-border shopping of alcohol – What is the effect on tax revenue and sales and which products are most affected?
Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;12/2024, Working paper, 2024-07-04)We use COVID-19 border closings and comprehensive store-level data on Norwegian alcohol sales to quantify the effect cross-border shopping of alcohol on sales volume and commodity tax revenue. Effects are large, for instance ... -
The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: Results from a natural experiment
Friberg, Richard; Halseth, Emil M. Strøm; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (SAM DP;09/2022, Working paper, 2022-06-20)We use grocery data from Norway and COVID-19 border closings to gauge the effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue. Detailed store-category level data identify differential treatment effects that depend on ... -
Exclusionary contracts and incentives to innovate
Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;05/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)The article considers a situation where several firms have the opportunity to sell an identical product to a set of buyers, and where each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher quality version of the product in ... -
Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping
Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;20/2019, Working paper, 2019-09-23)This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly store×category sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ... -
Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping
Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;29/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly storexcategory sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ... -
Unemployment shocks, cyclical prices and shopping behavior
Aursland, Thor Andreas; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;03/2021, Working paper, 2021-01)We use rich data from Norway’s biggest grocery chain to show how households and grocery stores react to changing economic conditions. We exploit the regional nature of a recession following the drop in the oil price in ... -
Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly : who pays the price?
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Sørgard, Lars; Ulsaker, Simen A. (Discussion Papers;17/2013, Working paper, 2013-12)This study develops and uses a successive oligopoly model, with an unobservable non-linear tariff between upstream and downstream firms, to analyze the possible anti-competitive effects of an upstream merger. We find ...