Blar i Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (TN-ISØP) på forfatter "Hausken, Kjell"
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Additive Multi-Effort Contests
Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03)Impact on rent seeking occurs even when a player exerts only one effort. This contrasts with models of multiplicative efforts with impact on rent seeking only when a player exerts all its available efforts. An analytical ... -
Attack and Defense Strategies in Cyber War Involving Production and Stockpiling of Zero-Day Cyber Exploits
Hausken, Kjell; Welburn, Jonathan William (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Two players strike balances between allocating resources for defense and production of zero-day exploits. Production is further allocated into cyberattack or stockpiling. Applying the Cobb Douglas expected utility function ... -
Axiomatizing Additive Multi-Effort Contests
Hausken, Kjell (Journal article, 2021-10)A rent seeking model is axiomatized where players exert multiple additive efforts which are substitutable in the contest success function. The axioms assume the sufficiency of exerting one effort, and that adding an amount ... -
A Bitcoin Price Prediction Model Assuming Oscillatory Growth and Lengthening Cycles
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06)This article’s motivation is to understand the volatile Bitcoin price increase. The objective is to develop price estimation methods. The methodology is to present five differential equation models estimated against the ... -
Comparative Analysis of Households and Digital Currencies for the US, China and Russia
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In a two-period decision model, a central bank chooses a CBDC (central bank digital currency) interest rate and a representative household allocates resources into production, consumption, CBDC holding, and non-CBDC holding. ... -
Comparing Growth Models with Other Investment Methods
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02)This article introduces five growth models as an investment method. These are conventional logistic growth, Gompertz growth, generalized charged capacitor growth, combined logistic and charged capacitor growth, and combined ... -
Competition Between Variable-Supply and Fixed-Supply Currencies
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)For one variable–supply currency in isolation, one player’s Cobb–Douglas utility depends on the current supply divided by the initial supply, multiplied by the inverse of the accumulative inflation/deflation. With equal ... -
Conventionalists, Pioneers and Criminals Choosing Between a National Currency and a Global Currency
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)The article analyzes how conventionalists, pioneers and criminals choose between a national currency (e.g. a central bank digital currency) and a global currency (e.g. a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin) that both have ... -
Cyber Resilience in Firms, Organizations and Societies
Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)Cyber resilience involves most societal actors, i.e. organizations, individuals, threat actors, governments, insurers, etc., at most levels of organization. Actors are embedded within each other and choose strategies based ... -
Decisions of Persons, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Donors in Disease Contraction and Recovery Assuming Virus Mutation
Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)Background The article develops an eight-period game between N persons and a pharmaceutical company. The choices of a donor and Nature are parametric. Methods Persons choose between safe and risky behavior, and whether ... -
Defense Strategies for Asymmetric Networked Systems with Discrete Components
Rao, Nageswara S. V.; Ma, Chris Y.T.; Hausken, Kjell; He, Fei; Yau, David K.Y.; Zhuang, Jun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)We consider infrastructures consisting of a network of systems, each composed of discrete components. The network provides the vital connectivity between the systems and hence plays a critical, asymmetric role in the ... -
Do National Development Factors Affect Cryptocurrency Adoption?
Bhimani, A.; Hausken, Kjell; Arif, S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The adoption of cryptocurrencies is uneven across businesses, industries, and countries. Different forces drive cryptocurrency adoption (CA) dependent on the national level of development. We empirically assess the ... -
The Dynamics of Terrorist Organizations
Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Terrorist organizations are most often comprised of ideologues, criminal mercenaries, and captive participants. Ideologues provide political purpose and direction and have a strong group commitment. However, every organization ... -
Evidence on the Impact of the Troubled Assets Relief Program on Stock Returns
Ncube, Mthuli; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In response to the global financial crisis which began in 2008, the US government launched the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the largest government bailout in US history. TARP was controversial and publicly ... -
Evidence on the Troubled Assets Relief Program, Bailout Size, Returns and Tail Risk
Ncube, Mthuli; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The US government launched the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) in mid-September 2008. This article analyzes the market response to the TARP launch. We reject the null hypothesis that the bailout size has no effect ... -
The Evolution of Fixed-Supply and Variable-Supply Currencies
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04)Competition is analyzed between a fixed-supply currency (e.g. Bitcoin) and a variable-supply currency (e.g. a fiat currency). Two kinds of players support the currencies differently and choose their volume fractions of ... -
Exhaustive Classification and Review of Techniques and Research Program for Techniques for Skate Skiing, Classical Skiing, and Ski Mountaineering
Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09)Background: Scattered analysis of some cross country skiing techniques is present in the literature. Objective: To provide an exhaustive classification and systematic overview of techniques in cross country skiing. M ... -
A Game Between Central Banks and Households Involving Central Bank Digital Currencies, Other Digital Currencies and Negative Interest Rates
Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-09-08)Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) enable negative interest rates. A game is analyzed between a central bank (accounting for the government’s interest) and a representative household choosing to consume, hold CBDC, ... -
Game Theoretic Analysis of Clickbait or Fake News and Real News
Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A decision and game theoretic model is developed for how one and two news organisations strike balances between producing clickbait or fake news, and real news. Each news organisation seeks to attract gullible consumers ... -
A Game Theoretic Analysis of Competition Between Vaccine and Drug Developers During Disease Contraction and Recovery
Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)Background Infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS are behaviorally challenging for persons, vaccine and drug companies, and donors. Methods In 3 linked games in which a disease may or may not be contracted, ...