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Bharat P. Bhatta
Førsteamanuensis
Tlf:     +47 5767 6317
E-post: bharat.bhatta@hisf.no
Sogndal
 

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Current involvement in research projects

Conditions of- and barriers to innovation in rural areas: a case study of Sogn og Fjordane county of Norway
An inquiry of pay-as-you-weigh pricing of an air ticket
Factor market participation by rural smallholder households from developing countries
Are CEOs of commercial banks in Nepal overpaid?

Courses taught

Discrete choice modeling (to masters and doctoral students and/or staff both at Molde University College, Molde and HISF, Sogndal)
Econometrics (to masters students with textbook Basic Econometrics by D.N. Gujarati)
Micro/macro economics, mathematical economics and statistics
International economics
Logistics and operations research

Bakgrunn

Employment

Associate professor of economics, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway, August 2010-
Research fellow, Molde University College, Norway, August 2005- July 2009
Economist, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 1995 - July 2002
Officer, Securities Board of Nepal, Kathmandu, August 1995 – October 1995
Lecturer (part time), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, August1995- May 2002
Research assistant (part time) in various research/consulting organizations
School teacher (of secondary level) at Tripurasundari Secondary School, Neelakantha Higher Secondary School and Kusheshwar Vidyapeeth

Education

Practical and Pedagogical Education: Formidling i høgare utdanning, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway, 2011
Ph.D. in Transport Economics and Logistics, Molde University College, Norway, 2005-2009; Thesis title: Discrete Choice Analysis with Applications to Travel Demand
M.Sc. in Development and Resource Economics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002-2004; Thesis title: Socioeconomic Transformations and Road Accessibility: Evidence from Northern Ethiopia
M.A. in Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 1993-1995; Thesis title: Dynamics of the Stock Market in Nepal

Publications (Selected peer-reviewed scientific articles)

• Pay-as-you-weigh pricing of an air ticket, Journal of Air Transport Management, 18 (2012) 34-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2011.07.003
• Errors in variables in multinomial choice modeling: a simulation study applied to a multinomial logit model of travel mode choice (joint with Odd I. Larsen), Transport Policy, 18(2011) 13-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.10.002
• Are intrazonal trips ignorable? (joint with Odd I. Larsen), Transport Policy, 18(2011) 13-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.04.004
• The sensitivity of model results to specification of network-based level of service attributes: An application of a mixed logit model of travel mode choice, Journal of Transport Technologies, 3(2011) 34-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jtts.2011.13006

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