Curriculum Vitae
CV (pdf file)
Personal Information:
Citizenship: India
Education:
Ph. D. Economics, Cornell University, 2012
M. A. Economics, Cornell University, 2010
M. Tech. Water Resource Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 1990
B. E. Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee (since renamed as Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 1988
Dissertation:
Essays on Equity and Efficiency in Infinite horizon economy
Dissertation Committee Tapan Mitra (Chair), Kaushik Basu, David Easley.
Fields of Specialization:
Microeconomic Theory, Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, Growth Theory
Research:
Working Papers:
1. On Monotone Social Welfare Orders satisfying the Strong Equity Axiom: Construction and Representation with Tapan Mitra
2. Fair Allocations in an Overlapping Generations Economy
3. Corruption and the Role of Middlemen with Jyoti Khanna
4. On Construction of Social Welfare Orders satisfying Hammond Equity and Weak Pareto Axioms
Publications:
1. Multi-Utility Representation of Social Welfare Orders on Infinite Utility Streams with Kuntal Banerjee, in Econophysics & Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques, eds. B. Basu, S. R. Chakravarty, B. K. Chakrabarti and K. Gangopadhyay, Springer, 2010, DOI:10.1007/978-88-470-1051-2_19 | Related Website |
2. On Equitable Social Welfare Functions Satisfying the Weak Pareto Axiom: A Complete Characterization with Tapan Mitra, International Journal of Economic Theory (2011), 7(3), p. 231-250, DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7363.2011.00161.x | Related Website |
3. Fleurbaey-Michel Conjecture on Equitable Weak Paretian Social Welfare Order Journal of Mathematical Economics (2011), 47(4-5), p. 434–439, DOI:10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.05.003 | Related Website |
4. On the Nature of Suppes-Sen Maximal Paths in an Aggregative Growth Model with Tapan Mitra, Social Choice and Welfare (2013), 40(1), p. 173-205, DOI: 10.1007/s00355-011-0592-8 | Related Website |
5. Impatience Implications of Weakly Paretian Orders: Existence and Genericity with Kuntal Banerjee, Journal of Mathematical Economics (2013), 49(2), p. 134-140, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2012.12.003 | Related Website |
6. On Ramsey Equilibrium: Capital Ownership Pattern and Inefficiency with Robert Becker and Tapan Mitra, Economic Theory (2014), 55 (3), p. 565-600, DOI: 10.1007/s00199-013-0767-x | Related Website |
7. Combining Monotonicity and Strong Equity: Construction and Representation of Orders on Infinite Utility Streams with Tapan Mitra, Social Choice and Welfare (2014), 43 (3), p. 591-602, DOI: 10.1007/s00355-014-0799-6 | Related Website |
8. Do all Constructive Strongly Monotone Intertemporal Orders exhibit Impatience? with Kuntal Banerjee, Journal of Mathematical Economics (2014), 52, p. 66-69, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.03.009 | Related Website |
9. On Social Welfare Functions on Infinite Utility Streams satisfying Hammond Equity and Weak Pareto axioms: A Complete Characterization with Tapan Mitra, Economic Theory Bulletin (2015) 3 (2), p. 169-180, DOI: 10.1007/s40505-014-0039-3 | Related Website |
10. On Construction of Equitable Social Welfare Orders on Infinite Utility Streams with Tapan Mitra, Mathematical Social Sciences (2014), 71, p. 53--60, DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2014.04.003 | Related Website |
11. Affirmative Action and Empowerment: Friends or Foes with Vidya Atal, Economics Bulletin (2014), 34(2), p. 1012-1018. | Related Website |
12. Ordering infinite utility streams: efficiency, continuity, and no impatience with José Carlos R. Alcantud, Mathematical Social Sciences (2014), 72, p. 33--40, DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2014.09.004 | Related Website |
13. A Characterization of Ramsey Equilibrium in a Model with Limited Borrowing with Kirill Borissov, Journal of Mathematical Economics (2015) 56, p. 67-78, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.12.004 | Related Website |
14. A Remark on the Continuity of the Walras Correspondence in Pure Exchange Economies with Francesco Ruscitti, Economic Theory Bulletin (2015) 3 (1), p. 33-41, DOI: 10.1007/s40505-014-0064-2 | Related Website |
15. Ramsey Equilibrium with Liberal Borrowing with Robert Becker and Kirill Borissov, Journal of Mathematical Economics (2015), 61, p. 296-304, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2015.09.009 | Related Website |
16. Monotone Comparative Statics in General Equilibrium with Francesco Ruscitti, Economics Bulletin (2016), 36(1), p. 187-197. | Related Website |
17. A note on Social Welfare Orders satisfying Pigou - Dalton Transfer Principle, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics (2016) forthcoming.
Expository Note:
Seminar / Presentation:
1. Microeconomic Theory Seminar, Department of Economics, Cornell University, November, 2010
2. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics, Colgate University, October, 2011
3. Department Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, May 2012
4. Department Seminar, Department of Economics, Long Island University, May 2012
5. Midwest Economic Theory Conference, St. Louis, Fall 2012
6. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, November, 2012
7. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, March, 2013
8. Midwest Economic Theory Conference, East Lansing, Spring 2013
9. Workshop Social Choice and Public Economics, Princeton University, May 10-11, 2013
10. Public Economic Theory Conference (PET13) at Lisbon, Portugal, July 5-7, 2013
11. 13th Annual Society for Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference at Paris, France, July 22-26, 2013
12. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, October, 2013
13. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, January, 2014
14. Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Indianapolis, Spring 2014
15. Department Seminar, Delhi School of Economics, July 24, 2014
16. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, October, 2014
17. Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Lawrence, Fall 2014
18. Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, March, 2015
19. Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Columbus, Spring 2015
20. Department Seminar, Delhi School of Economics, July 23, 2015
21. Department Seminar, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, July 24, 2015
22. Department Seminar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, July 28, 2015
23. Midwest Economic Theory Conference, University Park, PA, Fall 2015
24. Princeton Conference on Infinite Value, Princeton, NJ, November, 2015
Referee Work:
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences
The Italian Journal of Public Economics
Teaching:
Instructor:
Montclair State University:
Managerial Economics (ECON 563), Elementary Mathematical Techniques for Economics (ECON 317), Money and Banking (ECON 301), Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis (ECON 207), Managerial Economics (ECON 206), Applied Microeconomics (ECON 102)
Colgate University:
Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Games and Strategies
Cornell University:
Math Review Course for incoming graduate students
Teaching Assistant:
Cornell University:
Intermediate Mathematical Economics (Graduate), Intermediate Microeconomics, Introduction to Multivariate Analysis, Networks, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics
Lecture Notes:
Math Review Notes
Work Experience:
I worked as a civil servant in the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Excise) from September, 1991 till July 2004 and have wide experience in formulation, implementation and evaluation of indirect tax policies.
Teaching Awards:
Anindya (Bappu) Majumder '98 Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching: Cornell University 2009.