Tapas Kundu
Post-doctoral fellow

	Postal address:	Department of Economics University of Oslo P.O. Box 1095, Blindern NO-0317 Oslo, Norway
	Visiting address:	Eilert Sundt building (Reception: Room 1240) Moltke Moes vei 31 NO-0851 Oslo, Norway
	Room:	1125
	Hours available:	By appointment
	Phone:	+47 22855118, +47 22855127 (reception)
	Fax:	+47 22855035
	Email:	tapas.kundu@econ.uio.no
	Homepage:	http://folk.uio.no/kundu/

Background

M.Stat. from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in 2000. Ph.D. in Managerial Economics & Strategy from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2007. Employed by the University of Oslo as post-doctoral fellow since 2007.

CV

Teaching and tutoring

Autumn 2007: ECON4130 Statistics 2
Spring 2008: ECON4640 Political Economics

Special fields

Primary: Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy/Formal Political Theory
Secondary: Health Economics, Development Economics

Selected publications

Working papers

• “Can Democracy Always Lead to Efficient Economic Transitions?”
• “Monopoly Pricing under a Medicaid-Style Most-Favored-Customer Clause and Its Welfare Implication.” (joint with Peter Klibanoff)
• “Alleviating Poverty: Policies to Mitigate the Economic Cost of Disease.” (joint with Linda Emanuel and Eva Reitschuler)
• “The Dynamics of Incumbent Behavior and Policy Uncertainty.”