Research

Selected Publications

Behavioral Economics - Theory/Experiment

• Reverse Endowment Effect for a New Product. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020; (with Jeevant Rampal)

• Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay through Multiple Experimental Procedures: Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field in Rural Ghana. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018; (with Shyamal Chowdhury, H. De Groote, J.V. Meenakshi, J. Haleegoah, M. Ewool)

• Detection, Identification and Estimation of Loss Aversion: Evidence from an Auction Experiment. American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2014; (with Neha Gupta)

Industrial Organization / Agriculture and IO

• Social Contracts, Markets and Efficiency: Groundwater Irrigation in North India. Journal of Development Economics, 2012; (with J.V. Meenakshi and Gauri Khanna)

• Local Network Externalities and Market Segmentation. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2009; (with Bhaskar Dutta)

• The Unsupportable Support Price: An Analysis of Collusion and Government Intervention in Paddy Auction Markets in North India. Journal of Development Economics, 2005; (with J.V. Meenakshi)

• Buyer Collusion and Efficiency of Government Intervention in Wheat Markets in Northern India: An Asymmetric Structural Auctions Analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004; (with J.V. Meenakshi)

• Sequencing Strategically: Wage Negotiations under Oligopoly. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2002.

Nutrition

• Information and Consumer Willingness to Pay for Biofortified Cassava: Evidence from Experimental Auctions in Nigeria. Agricultural Economics, 2016; (with Adewale Oparinde, Ekin Birol, Paul Ilona)

• Using a Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit the Demand for a Nutritious Food: Willingness-to-Pay for Orange Maize in Rural Zambia. Journal of Health Economics, 2012; (with J.V. Meenakshi, V. Manyong, N. Mittal, P. Hamukwala).