Citizenship:
United States
Education: 2002, Ph. D. Economics, University of
Southern California
Current Employment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Iowa
State University
Previous Employments: Assistant Professor, Drake University,
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Texas A & M University
Awards: Haynes Dissertation Fellow,
University of Southern California
Current research interests:
Games of strategic substitutes and complements and their applications,
global games of strategic substitutes and their applications, Preference
aggregation methods and voting paradoxes
Recent publications:
1. “Characterizing
Stability Properties in Games with Strategic Substitutes”, with T. Sabarwal
(forthcoming, available online), Games and Economic Behavior
2. “On reducing
Condorcet effects from pair-wise election tallies”, with Abhijit Chandra
(forthcoming), Social Choice and Welfare
3. “Monotone
Comparative Statics for Games with Strategic Substitutes” with T. Sabarwal,
(2010) Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol 46, Issue 5
4. “Inflation, self insurance and the Friedman
rule in economies with uninsurable idiosyncratic risk”, (2009) Berkeley
Electronic Journal of Theoretical Economics (Topics), Vol 9, Issue 1 (January 2009)
5. “On the (non)-lattice
structure of equilibrium sets in games with strategic substitutes”, with T.
Sabarwal, (2008) Economic Theory, 37(1)
6. “Self
insurance and public employment programs”, Economics Bulletin, (2007), Vol 4,
No 31.
7. “On price
uncertainty, nominal assets and uninsurable idiosyncratic risks”, Economics
Bulletin, (2007) Vol 4, No 32.
Link to Working papers
Other publications:
1.
“Incidence of Price on Poverty in West Bengal – What do intertemporal
comparisons tell us?” joint with B. Chatterjee in Indian Economic Journal, (1994) Vol 41
No.4, pgs 118-124.
2. “Growth and Stability of Agricultural Production in West
Bengal, 1970-89, An Economic Analysis”, joint with B. Chatterjee in Regional
Dimensions of the Indian Economy, (1998), Allied Publishers, New Delhi.
My Courses
Econ 418:
Introduction to Game Theory
Econ 500:
Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis I
Econ 207:
Applied Economic Optimization
Econ102:
Principles of Macroeconomics
My hobbies: History, Literature,
Movies, Gardening