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Tapas Kundu

Tapas Kundu

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 35 047
E-mail
  • tapas.kundu@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

I am a Professor at the Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University. I hold a PhD in Managerial Economics & Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and have previously held academic positions at the University of Oslo (ESOP) and UiT The Arctic University of Norway, as well as research affiliations with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

My research is grounded in microeconomic theory and game theory, with applications to competition policy, industrial organization, political economy, development economics, and law and economics. I study how strategic incentives, information, and institutional constraints shape behavior and outcomes—often in settings involving contests, bargaining, regulation, and organizational design. A recurring theme is to connect formal theoretical mechanisms to empirically relevant predictions and policy questions, including how rules and incentives affect competition, participation, and welfare.

At OsloMet, I teach and supervise at both the bachelor’s and master’s levels, including courses in investment/financial markets, portfolio management, and microeconomics.

For publications and ongoing projects, please visit: https://www.tapaskundu.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1814-7230

Field of study

Political Economy   Industrial economics   General financial markets   Development economics   Microeconomics

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Guerra, Alice; Kundu, Tapas (2026). Presumption of Patent Validity and Litigation Incentives. Journal of Public Economic Theory. Vol. 28.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.70119

Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2025). Investing to get a head start in contests. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 241.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107364

Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas ; Reindl, Johann (2025). Investment incentives in contests. Social Choice and Welfare.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-025-01643-5

Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas (2025). Endogenous entry and investment in an all-pay auction. Journal of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 122.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2025.103203

Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2025). Investment and endogenous efficiency in a contest. Economics Letters. Vol. 247.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112131

Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; Kundu, Tapas ; Østbye, Stein (2021). On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis. Regional Science and Urban Economics. Vol. 87.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.103654

Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas (2021). Competitive balance: Information disclosure and discrimination in an asymmetric contest. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 184.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.01.034

Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2021). Delegating pollution permits. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Vol. 124.
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12468

Clark, Derek John; Kundu, Tapas (2021). Partial information disclosure in a contest. Economics Letters. Vol. 204.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109915

Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2020). Delegation of regulation*. The Journal of Industrial Economics. Vol. 68.
https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12238



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Research reports

Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2017). Delegation of Regulation. 55 p. CESifo.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1331

Kundu, Tapas ; Klibanoff, Peter (2008). Monopoly pricing under Medicaid-style most-favored-customer clause and its welfare implication. 47 p. ESOP Working paper series.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4103901

Kundu, Tapas (2007). Essays in political economy and regulation. 186 p. Northwestern University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5191445



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Dissemination

Kundu, Tapas ; Guerra, Alice (2019). The role of legal presumptions in Patent litigation. Economics Analysis of Litigation Workshop. University of Granada.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4952580

Kundu, Tapas (2018). Policy Selection and Moral Hazard. Annual conference of Portugese Economic Journal. Portugese Economic Journal.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4136743

Kundu, Tapas ; Guerra, Alice (2018). Patent Litigation and Patent Trolls. Annual conference on Contest: Theory and Evidence. University of East Anglia.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4902807

Kundu, Tapas ; moon, seongwuk (2018). Integration and Competition for Innovation in Science-based Industries. EEA-ESEM 2018. European Economic Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3225711

Kundu, Tapas ; Guerra, Alice (2018). The Presumption of Validity in Patent Litigation. Contemporary Issues in Development Economics. Jadavpur University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3523100

Kundu, Tapas (2017). Policy reputation and political accountabilty. Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory. The Association for Public Economic Theory.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3379280

Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2017). Delegation of Regulation. Departmental seminar at University of Kent . Economics Department, University of Kent.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3359847

Kundu, Tapas (2017). Policy reputation and political accountabilty. Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics. Jadavpur University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4925745

Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2017). Delegation of Regulation. Workshop on Economic Theory and Experimental Economics. Universitetet i Tromsø.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4263259

Kundu, Tapas ; Nilssen, Tore (2016). Delegation of Regulation. The Industrial Economics of Private-Public Relations. The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4195488



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