Research Interests

• Formation of Groups and Networks
• Mechanism Design
• Cooperative GameTheory
• Political Economy
• Social Choice Theory

Recent Publications and working papers

Efficient Partnership Formation in Networks, Theoretical Economics, 2019, (written with Francis Bloch, Mihai Manea). Partnership

Coalition Formation and History Dependence, to be published in Theoretical Economics, 2018, (written with Hannu Vartiainen). HREFS

The Measurement of Welfare Change, to be published in Social Choice and Welfare, 2018. (written with Walter Bossert) Welfare

Rational Expectations and Farsighted Stability, Theoretical Economics, 2017, (written with Rajiv Vohra).- Refs

Credibility and Strategic Learning in Networks, 2016, International Economic Review (written with Kalyan Chatterjee), - BZZ

Minimum Cost Arborescenses, Games and Economic Behavior, 2012 (written with Debasis Mishra) - arbor

Formation of Networks and Coalitions, 2010 (written with Francis Bloch), Handbook of Social Economics, edited by J.Benhabib, A.Bisin and M. Jackson- netsurvey

Nash Implementation with Partially Honest Individuals, Games and Economic Behavior, 2012 (written with Arunava Sen)-honesty

Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted U, (written with Kaushik Basu and Sanghamitra Das), Journal of Development Economics, 2010 - child.pdf

Externalities, Potential, Value and Consistency, Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, (written with Lars Ehlers and Anirban Kar) -shapley

Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India, Journal of Development Economics, 2009 (with W.Arulampalam, S.Dasgupta and A.Dhillon)- pdf file

Teaching

• MRES Microeconomics