Browsing ODA Open Digital Archive by Author "Kundu, Tapas"
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Commercial Real Estate in Norway: Determinants of Rental Prices
Midttun, Henrik; Engebretsen, Frederik (Master thesis, 2023)In this master's thesis, we present a study with logistic regression. We want to find out which macroeconomic variables that affect the rental price growth on commercial real estate in Norway. Through a literature review ... -
Competitive balance: Information disclosure and discrimination in an asymmetric contest
Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization;volume 184, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-14)We study a design problem for an effort-maximizing principal in a two-player contest with two dimensions of asymmetry. Players have different skill levels and an information gap exists, as only one player knows the skill ... -
Delegating Pollution Permits
Kundu, Tapas; Nilssen, Tore (The Scandinavian Journal of Economics;Volume 124, Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-02)We discuss the decision to delegate the regulation of pollution through sales of permits to a biased expert in a situation where the polluting firm has private information about its technology. We consider, in particular, ... -
Delegation of Regulation
Nilssen, Tore; Kundu, Tapas (Working Paper;, Working paper, 2017) -
Delegation of Regulation
Kundu, Tapas; Nilssen, Tore (The Journal of Industrial Economics;Volume 68, Issue 3, September 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-12)We discuss a government’s incentives to delegate regulation to bureaucrats. The government faces a trade-off in its delegation decision: bureaucrats have knowledge of the firms in the industry that the government does ... -
Extreme weather events and stock returns in the insurance industry
Benestad, Sindre; Nygård, Jonas (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis examines abnormal returns on insurance stocks listed on NYSE subsequent to an Atlantic hurricane making landfall in the U.S., using data from 2000 to 2018. We investigate if firm characteristics explain the ... -
Fører økt konkurranse av Uber til et behov for endring av reguleringer i drosjemarkedet? En komparativ studie av prisendringer i drosjemarkedet til Oslo og New York City.
Myhre-Andersen, Ida (Master thesis, 2018)I denne masteroppgaven tar jeg utgangspunkt i følgende problemstilling; «Fører økt konkurranse av Uber til et behov for endring av reguleringer i drosjemarkedet?», der formålet er å skape en diskusjon rundt et behov for ... -
How will Brexit affect the English Premier League? A theoretical study on Brexits effect on competition, wage and labor market in English football
Vu, Camilla Han Ngoc; Andås, Christopher (Master thesis, 2020)In this thesis, we have studied how the situation around Brexit will affect the English Premier League (EPL). Surrounding the situation, there are many factors that could be affected. Therefore, in this thesis the main ... -
Integration and Competition for Innovations in Science-Based Industries
Kundu, Tapas; Moon, Seongwuk (Working Paper;6/2017, Working paper, 2017) -
On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis
Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; Kundu, Tapas; Østbye, Stein (Regional Science and Urban Economics;volume 87, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-05)This paper adapts the canonical New Economic Geography model for experimental testing of the model's behavioral assumptions by developing a finite-player, finite-horizon dynamic game of migration. Our analysis gives ... -
Partial information disclosure in a contest
Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas (Economics Letters;Volume 204, July 2021, 109915, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-18)Zhang and Zhou (2016) use the concept of Bayesian persuasion due to Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011) to analyze information disclosure in a contest with one-sided asymmetric information. They show that an effort-maximizing ... -
Understanding the impact of demographic and environmental factors on mental health during COVID-19 An empirical study of Norwegian mental health data from November and December 2020.
Saboohian, Mahboub; Kjørmo, Joakim Løw (Master thesis, 2021)The research question looks at the role that gender, age, education, economic situation, unemployment, and singlehood play on the probability of having considerable mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...