Ole Kristian Dyskeland

Economist | Researcher

I am a research economist at Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).

My primary research is applied theory within industrial organization, but I also work on public economics issues. In addition to defence markets, and procurement issues related to defence build-up, I focus on digital media markets and platform competition.

I am also affiliated with Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics, BECCLE.

Email: ole-kristian[dot]dyskeland[at]ffi[dot]no

Education

PhD in Business Economics, August 2021 – August 2025
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Supervisors: Øystein Foros and Malin Arve
Thesis: "Essays On Digital Platform Competition"

MSc in Economics and Business AdministrationAugust 2018 – June 2020
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Supervisor: Hans Jarle Kind
Thesis: "A Study in Print: Competition in Prices and Quality Between Newspapers and Magazines"

BSc (Hons.) in Economics, Finance and International BusinessSeptember 2014 – May 2017
Oxford Brookes University
Independent Study: "Optimal pricing in new market places with unconventional cost structures" (just awful title, I know..)
Advisor: Sara le Roux

Experience

Researcher, August 2025 – p.a.
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Defence economics research. 

PhD Research Scholar, August 2021 – August 2025
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science
Four-year, fully funded PhD scholarship.

Deputy member for PhD candidatesFebruary 2023 - December 2025
Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research (Kif Committee)
Deputy member to the Kif committee adminsitered at Universities Norway, representing the Association of Doctoral Organisations in Norway, SiN.

President, January 2023 - December 2023
Association of Doctoral Organisations in Norway (SiN)
SiN in as an umbrella organization for interest organisations for doctoral candidates and postdocs at Norwegian universities. We helped the local organisations at the individual institutions work together. However, primarily we work as a voice for PhD candidates and postdocs on political issues concerning education, research and other issues of relevance for the member organisations. My primary focus was cleaning up and managing a disorganised organisation with little financial control and little to no retention of institutional knowledge. In turn of policy, my focus as president was on improving the systems to take care of PhD candidates (and postdocs) who spoke up against people with tenure.

President, May 2022 - June 2023
NHHdoc
NHHdoc is the doctoral student association at NHH. As president I turned the organisation from a purely a social events organising group to be the representative body for PhD candidates for the school management and administration.

Economic Advisor, August 2020 - July 2021
Norwegian Directorate of Mining with Commissioner of Mines at Svalbard, section for mineral extraction

Government Economic Service (GES) Intern & part-time, June 2016 - May 2017
Office for National Statistics (ONS), Section for Prices Development
Was a GES intern summer 2016 in section for prices development on project for price indices by using high-frequency webscraped data for foodstuffs. Worked part times for the 2016-17 academic year on same project.

Honours and Awards

Best Paper Award, November 2025
NATO Operations Research and Analysis Conference (SAS-196), Berlin, Germany, on 03-05 November 2025
For paper "A Cost-Effect Model for Prioritizing Force Development Options", together with Vatne, D.F., Lammersdorf, A.B., and  Andersen, E.E.

Best paper presented by a PhD student award, November 2024
46 Annual Meeting of Norwegian Association of Economists
For paper "Do Capacity Constrained Bots Collude?", where John Sæten Lilletvedt is first (and presenting) author. 
Public coverage:
1. the Norwegian Association of Economists,
2. the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen,
3. and by the NHH Bulltin (Norwegian),
3. 2 and in English.

NHH master thesis project grant/award, November 2020
Centre for applied research at NHH (SNF)

NHH master thesis project grant/award, October 2020
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE)

DSD Stipend, November 2017
Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap (DSD) Stipendfond

Peder Smedvig Stipend, November 2017
Peder Smedvigs Stipendiefond

The Faculty of Business Student Representative Prize, June 2016
Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Business

The Frank Shergold Prize in Business Economics Year 1June 2015
Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Business

Teaching Experience

Pedagogy training

50h “pedagogy for PhD students” course at NHH winter 2024. 

8h “pedagogy for master TAs” course at NHH 2020.

PhD Teaching Assistant

At NHH Norwegian School of Economics.

🇳🇴 BUS400N: Styring av Større Foretak (Management Control, Master)

Course Responsible: Iver Bragelien. Autumn 2021 - 2024. Assignment feedback and exam marking.

🇳🇴 BUS438: Strategisk Organisering og Konkurranse (Strategic Organisation and Competition, Master)

Course Responsible: Øystein Foros. Spring 2023 - 2024. Exam grading.

🇬🇧 FIE441: Taxes and Business Strategy (Master)

Course Responsible: Elisa Casi-Eberhard. Spring 2022 - 2024.

Master Teaching Assistant

At NHH Norwegian School of Economics.

🇳🇴 SAM2: Mikroøkonomi (Microeconomics, Bachelor/Undergraduate)

Course Responsible: Kjetil Bjorvatn. Spring 2020

🇬🇧 ECN402: Econometrics (Master)

Course Responsible: Morten Sæthre. Spring 2020

Bachelor/Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (2015-17)

At Oxford Brookes university.

🇬🇧 Microeconomics 2 (Bachelor/Undergraduate)

🇬🇧 Quantitative Techniques for Economics and Finance 1 (Bachelor/Undergraduate)

SAM2-podden 🎙️

For the 2020 and 2021 iterations of the NHH undergraduate microeconomics course (SAM2) I produced the SAM2-podden podcast together with Ada Gjedebo Hetland.

It is available on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.

Project started in connection with being teaching assistant for SAM2 (below).