Publications

Journal Articles

1."Borrower Targeting under Microfinance Competition with Motivated MFIs", Developing Economies, forthcoming (with P. Roy Chowdhury).
2."Reversal of Fortune Revisited: The Geography of Transport and the Changing Balance of World Economic Power", Rivista di Storia Economica, accepted (with A. Guha).
3."Reinterpreting King Solomon's Problem: Malice and Mechanism Design", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2014), 98: 125-132.The final working paper version is here
4."Guns and Crime Revisited", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2013), 94: 1-10 (lead article). The final working paper version is here
5."Microfinance Competition: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping and Default", Journal of Development Economics, (2013),105:86-102 (with P Roy Chowdhury).The final working paper version is here
6. ""Inferiority" Complex? Policing, Private Precautions and Crime", European Journal of Law and Economics, (2013), DOI: 10.1007/s10657-013-9408-x.The final working paper version is here
7."Who Will Monitor the Monitors?Informal Law Enforcement and Collusion at Champagne", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2012),83(2): 261-277.The final working paper version is here
8."Crime and Moral Hazard: Does More Policing Necessarily Induce Private Negligence?" Economics Letters, (2012),115(3): 455-459 (with A. Guha).The final working paper version is here
9."The Persistence of Goodness", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, (2012),168(3):432-443 (with A. Guha).The final working paper version is here
10."Pirates and Fishermen: Is Less Patrolling Always Bad?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2012), 81(1): 29-38. The final working paper version is here
11."Honesty and Intermediation: Corporate Cheating, Auditor Involvement and the Implications for Takeoff",Seoul Journal of Business, (2012),18(2): 55-93.
12."Pirates and Traders:Some Economics of Pirate-Infested Seas",Economics Letters (2011),111(2): 147-150 (with A Guha).The final working paper version is here
13."Preferences,Prisoners and Private Information:Was Socrates Rational at His Trial?" European Journal of Law and Economics(2011),31: 249-264. A working paper version is here
14."Trade,Growth and Increasing Returns to Infrastructure:The Role of the Sophisticated Monopolist",Review of International Economics (2009),17(5):1053-1065 (with A Guha).A longer working paper version is here
15."Utility Functions,Future Consumption Targets and Subsistence Thresholds",Economics Bulletin (2008),4(30):1-4 (with A Guha).Available here
16."Target Saving in an Overlapping Generations Model",B.E Journal of Macroeconomics (2008),8(1):1-24(with A Guha).A pre-publication version is here.The Mathematica code for drawing our diagrams is here
17."Maids and Mistresses:Migrating Maids and Female Labor Force Participation",Economics Bulletin (2007),10(11):1-9.Available here
18."Green Revolutions and Miracle Economies:Agricultural Innovation,Trade and Growth",Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (2006),15(2):209-230.A working paper version is here
19."Female Labor Force Participation and Labor-Saving Gadgets",Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (2005),14(4):483-495.An earlier and simpler version is here
20."IT:Deconstructing the Bust That Followed the Boom",Economic and Political Weekly (2003),37.
21."The Economic Consequences of the Microelectronics and Telecommunications Revolution",Economic and Political Weekly (2000),34:2725-2729.

Book

Malfeasance and the Market.2009,VDM Verlag Dr Muller,e.K. ISBN 978-3-8364-3994-7. To read the back cover of the book,click here.You can also get it on Amazon
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Book chapters

1. "Ethics and the Market" in "Markets and Morals: Ethical Issues in Economics" (ed A.S Guha),New Delhi, Centre for the Study of Civilizations (2011).
2. "Knowledge" in The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer. Forthcoming.

Other (early version of work in progress)

"Collusion and Concentration: Can Firm-Auditor Collusion Possibilities Cause Concentration in the Auditing Market? A Game Theoretic Analysis".

Current Research Interests

My research interests are very diverse.One broad area of interest lies in the intersection of institutions,asymmetric information and development.The "institutions" I am interested in range from microfinance lenders,to inheritance norms and divorce laws,to intermediaries in incomplete information scenarios(like the medieval "law merchants" in trade fairs,or modern auditors)to political mechanisms (for instance,limited suffrage,affirmative action).