Curriculum vitae
Department of Economics
New York University
19 W 4th St, New York, NY 10012
Mobile: +1 312 231 3902
Email: joyee.deb@nyu.edu joyee.deb@gmail.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Microeconomic Theory, Repeated Games, Reputation, Bargaining, Dynamic Games, Organizational Economics
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, MEDS, Northwestern University (2008)
MBA (Econ & Finance), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
B.Sc. Mathematics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
William R. Berkley Term Chair of Economics and Business, New York University Sep 2023 - current
Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management July 2021 – June 2023
Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management July 2019 – June 2021
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management July 2014 – June 2019
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business July 2008 – June 2014
PUBLISHED PAPERS
1. Gambling over Public Opinion (with Deepal Basak), American Economic Review, Vol. 110, No. 11, November 2020
2. The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Anonymous Random Matching (with Takuo Sugaya and Alex Wolitzky), Econometrica Vol. 88, Issue 3, May 2020
3. Cooperation and Community Responsibility: A Folk Theorem for Repeated Matching Games with Names, Journal of Political Economy Vol. 128, No. 5, May 2020
4. Reputation with Opportunities for Coasting (with Heski Bar-Isaac), Journal of European Economic Association, June 2020
5. Enforcing Social Norms: Trust-building and Community Enforcement (with Julio González-Díaz), Theoretical Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, November 2019
6. Uniform Folk Theorems in Repeated Anonymous Random Matching Games (with Jérôme Renault and Julio González-Díaz), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 100, November 2016
7. Relational Contracts with Subjective Peer Evaluations (with Jin Li and Arijit Mukherjee), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 47, No. 1, Spring 2016
8. Stability in Large Bayesian Games with Heterogeneous Players (with Ehud Kalai), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 157, May 2015
9. Mobility and Conflict (with Sourav Bhattacharya and Tapas Kundu), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2015 Vol. 7, No. 1, February 2015
10. (Good and Bad) Reputation of a Servant of Two Masters (with Heski Bar-Isaac), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Vol. 6, No. 4, November 2014
11. What is a Good Reputation? Career Concerns with Heterogeneous Audiences (with Heski Bar-Isaac), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 34, May 2014
12. Price Discrimination and Investment Incentives (with Alexei Alexandrov), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 30, Issue 6, November 2012
13. Observability and Sorting in a Market for Names, Lead article in the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 21, Issue 2, Summer 2012
CURRENT WORKING PAPERS
1. Aiming for the Goal: Pricing and Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding (with Aniko Öry and Kevin Williams), Revise and resubmit at American Economic Review
2. Fostering Collaboration (with Aditya Kuvalekar and Elliot Lipnowski), Revise and resubmit at Theoretical Economics
3. When do Consumers Talk? (with Ishita Chakraborty and Aniko Öry), Revise and resubmit at Management Science
4. Reputation Building under Uncertain Monitoring (with Yuhta Ishii), Revise and resubmit at Theoretical Economics
5. Competition and Reputational Barriers to Entry (with Jack Fanning)
WORK IN PROGRESS
1. #Change (with Deepal Basak and Aditya Kuvalekar)
2. Reference Dependence and Choice Overload (with Jidong Zhou)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1. The Competitor Perspective (Part of MBA core at Yale SOM) 2015 – 2021
2. Game Theory (Yale undergraduate class) 2021, 2022
3. Applications of Game Theory (Undergraduate) 2021, 2022
4. Basics of Economics (Part of MBA core at Yale SOM) 2015 – 2020
5. Topics in Economic Theory (Ph.D. at NYU Stern) 2011 – 2012
6. Firms and Markets (Part of MBA core at NYU Stern) 2009 – 2014
TEACHING AWARDS
2020: Winner of Yale SOM Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for core curriculum teaching
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial:
Editor, RAND Journal of Economics
Editorial Board, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Associate Editor, Economic Journal
Editorial Board, Mathematical Social Sciences
Refereeing:
Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, AER: Insights, American Economic Journal: Micro, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Journal, International Journal of Game Theory, European Economic Review, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Comparative Economic Studies, Theory and Decision, Mathematics of Operations Research
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
Name (Role): First placement
Elliot Lipnowski (Main advisor): University of Chicago
Dhruva Bhaskar (Dissertation Committee member): Queen Mary University of London
Deepal Basak (Dissertation Committee member): Indian School of Business
Jack Fanning (Dissertation Committee member): Brown University
INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2022-23: SITE conference, MIT, Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, SAET, Theory workshop at University of Leicester, Economic Theory Conference at BFI, University of Chicago
2021-22: Princeton University, University of Toronto, SUNY Stonybrook, University of Southern California, Plenary speaker at Australian Economic Theory Meetings, New York University, Reputation Workshop in Paris, Warwick Theory Workshop
2020-21: (Some rescheduled) Stanford University, Penn State University, University of Arizona, Cornell University, University of Southern California, New Economic School, Sao Paulo School of Economics Fundação Getulio Vargas, Semi-plenary speaker at GAMES 2020, NBER Organizational Economics Meetings
2019-20: New York University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, SAET Ischia
2018-19: Columbia GSB, Carnegie Mellon University, Kellogg School of Management (Transatlantic Theory Workshop) Penn State University (Mini-conference), Arizona State University Economic Theory Conference, Carlos III Madrid
2017-18: Iowa State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Paris Symposium on Games, Triangle Microeconomics Conference
2016-17: Brown University
2015-16: Oxford University, University of Warwick, University College London, Queen Mary University of London, MIT, Boston University, Organization Economics Workshop at the University of Sydney, Theory and Environment Workshop at University of Oslo
2014-15: Kellogg School of Management, Stanford University, University of Sydney, Boston University, University of Toronto
2013-14: Washington Univ. St. Louis, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Yale SOM, Workshop on Game Theory CIDE, Workshop on Games, Contracts and Markets, Universidad de Chile
2012-13: University of Bocconi, NBER meeting on Organizations, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, Midwest Economic Association Meetings, Columbia Strategy Conference, Conference on Reputation in Organizations and Markets, Bad Homburg
2011-12: Paris School of Economics, HEC Paris, Game Theory World Congress Istanbul, Workshop in Economic Theory in Gerzensee
2010-11: Michigan State Univ., Fordham Univ., Boston Univ., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Univ. of Kansas (Conference on Economic Theory), Univ. of Oslo, Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Conference on New Trends in Applied Microeconomics at La Pietra, NYU, SAET Conference, UECE Meetings in Lisbon, CSSR in Kolkata
2009-2010: University of California San Diego, CalTech, Penn State, University of Rochester, University of Pittsburgh, Indian Statistical Institute, Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Conference at Istanbul, Econometric Society Meetings at Barcelona, SAET Conference
2008-2009: University of Pennsylvania, UT Austin, Arizona State University, GAMES 2008
2007-2008: Columbia University, MIT, NYU, Washington Univ. St. Louis, UCLA, Yale, Penn State, Duke University, University of British Columbia
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
NYC Advisory Board for iMentor 2017 – present
Board of Directors for Veerni / Global Foundation for Humanity 2016 – present
Management Consultant in strategy practice of Accenture 1999 – 2003