Ph.D. (Yale)
Area of Specialization:Applied Micro and Game Theory

Current research interests include work below. Comments and suggestions on any of it are very welcome!

Papers:

• Millers, Commission Agents and Collusion in Grain Markets: Evidence from Basmati Auctions in North India. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Contributions. January 2008. (with JV Meenakshi)

• Markets, Institutions and Efficiency: Groundwater Irrigation in North India. November 2006. (with JV Meenakshi and Gauri Khanna)

• Local Network Externalities and Market Segmentation. April 2005. (with B. Dutta)

• The Unsupportable Support Price: An Analysis of Collusion and Government Intervention in Paddy Auction Markets in North India. Journal of Development Economics 76 (2005) 377-403. (with JV Meenakshi)

• Buyer Collusion and Efficiency of Government Intervention in Wheat Markets in Northern India: An Asymmetric Structural Auctions Analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(1) (2004), 236-253. (with JV Meenakshi)

• Sequencing Strategically: Wage Negotiations under Oligopoly. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20(7) (2002), 1037-1058.