Prabal Roy Chowdhury
  Professor, Planning Unit

  Ph.D., Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.

  Areas of interest: Game theory, industrial organization, bargaining, development economics.

   Recent Publications:

  • 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.
  • Bertrand Competition with Non-rigid Capacity Constraints, Economics Letters 109, 55-58, 2009.
  • Mixed Oligopoly with Distortions: First Best with Budget-balance and the Irrelevance Principle, Economics Bulletin 29, 1885-1900, 2009.
  • 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.
  • Adoption of New Technology and Joint Venture Instability (with Tarun Kabiraj), Research in International Business and Finance 22, 108-123, 2008.
  • Controlling Collusion in Auctions: The Role of Ceilings and Reserve Prices, Economics Letters 98, 420-426, 2008.
  • 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.
  • Alliances Among Asymmetric Countries. Defence and Peace Economics 18, 253-263, 2007.

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