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Working
Papers
Micro-finance: The SHG-linkage Program, being prepared for ``The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy’’, Ed. Chetan Ghate.
Porter hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting.
Multi-person bargaining: Transparency, complementarity and holdout (joint with Kunal Sengupta).
Gradual Repayment and sequential lending in micro-finance (joint with Shyamal Chowdhury and Kunal Sengupta).
Does the Market Kill Bad Ideas? An Institutional Comparison of Committees and Markets in Network Industries (joint with Debdatta Saha).
Spatial Inequality and Economic Development (joint with Namrata Gulati).
Aid in the time of terror (joint with Jaideep Roy).
Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Voice and Fragmentation.
Multi-person Bargaining with Complementarity: Is There Holdout (with Kunal Sengupta), MPRA Paper # 11517.
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Deterrence, Preemption and Panic: A Common-Enemy Problem of Terrorism (with Satya P. Das), ISID Discussion Paper # 04-2008.
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Borrower Empowerment and Savings: A Two-stage Micro-finance Scheme, MPRA Paper # 3405.
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Recent Publications
Transparency, Complemntarity and Holdout, joint with Kunal Sengupta, forthcoming, Games and Economic Behaviour.
Edgeworth Market Games: Price-taking and Efficiency, forthcoming "Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science’’ Ed. Marc Kilgour, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Micro-finance: The SHG-linkage Program, forthcoming ``The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy’’, Ed. Chetan Ghate.
Porter hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting, Economics Bulletin, 31, 167-176, 2011.
Firm Size and Pricing Policy, Bulletin of Economics Research, 62, 181-195, 2010.
Entry Liberalization, Export Subsidy and R&D, in A. Dhar (ed.) Some Contemporary Issues in Development and Growth Economics, 444-463, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2010.
Public-private Partnerships in Micro-finance: Should NGO Involvement be Restricted? (with Jaideep Ray), Journal of Development Economics 90, 200-208, 2009.
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Bertrand Competition with Non-rigid Capacity Constraints, Economics Letters 109, 55-58, 2009.
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Mixed Oligopoly with Distortions: First Best with Budget-balance and the Irrelevance Principle, Economics Bulletin 29, 1885-1900, 2009.
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Financial Intermediation and Employment (with M. Pant and G. Singh), Review of Market Integration 1, 61-82, 2009.
Joint Venture Instability and Monitoring, Indian Growth and Development Review 2, pages 126-140, 2009.
Bertrand - Edgeworth Equilibrium with a Large number of Firms, International Journal of Industrial Organization 26, 746-761. 2008.
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Adoption of New Technology and Joint Venture Instability (with Tarun Kabiraj), Research in International Business and Finance 22, 108-123, 2008.
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Controlling Collusion in Auctions: The Role of Ceilings and Reserve Prices, Economics Letters 98, 420-426, 2008.
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Group-lending with Sequential Financing, Contingent Renewal and Social Capital, Journal of Development Economics 84, 487-507, 2007.
Winner of the JDE Best Paper Award, 2007.
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Alliances Among Asymmetric Countries. Defence and Peace Economics 18, 253-263, 2007.
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