I am a Professor of Economics in Ashoka University. My primary areas of My research interests are Game Theory, Evolution and Learning in games, Microeconomic theory and Mathematical Economics. Here is a link to my CV.
Equilibrium Selection via Stochastic Evolution in Continuum Potential Games (with Sayan Mukherjee and Souvik Roy)
An Evolutionary Model of Migration: Rapid Social Change (with Srinivas Arigapudi)
Global Convergence to Kantian Preference in a Public Goods Game
From Predation to Cooperation: Rent Dissipation and the Emergence of the Axial Age, 2026, forthcoming, International Review of Economics.
An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Analysis of the Kuznets Inequality Curve (with Amarjyoti Mahanta), 2026, forthcoming, Dynamic Games and Applications.
Equilibrium Selection in a Class of Aggregative Games under Sampling Dynamics (with A. Arun and Souvik Roy); Mathematical Social Sciences, 2026, Volume 144, 102572.
An Evolutionary Model of Rent-Seeking and Inequality Norms in a Tullock Contest; Public Choice, 2026, Volume 208, 249-275.
The Best Experienced Payoff Dynamic in the Ultimatum Minigame (with Amarjyoti Mahanta); International Journal of Game Theory, 2025, Volume 54, 17.
Implementing Efficiency with Equality (with Sarvesh Bandhu); Journal of Economic Behavior and Orgranization, 2025, Volume 235, 107046.
Evolutionary Implementation with Partially Effective Institutions; Mathematical Social Sciences, 2025, Volume 134, 1-13.
Appropriability, Institutions and Welfare in a Tullock Contest; Economics and Politics, 2025, Volume 37, 115-145.
Group Selection under the Replicator Dynamic; Dynamic Games and Applicators, 2025, Volume 15, 129-153.
Rent Dissipation in Difference-Form Contests; Mathematical Social Sciences, 2024, Volume 132, 40-48.
Affirmative Action in Large Population Tullock Contests (with Rezina Sultana); Public Choice, 2024, Volume 201, 327-353.
Emergence of Trust in the Trust Game under Best Experienced Payoff Dynamics (with Srinivas Arigapudi); Economics Letters, 2024, Volume 236, 111620.
Rent Dissipation in Large Population Tullock Contests (with Rezina Sultana); Public Choice, 2023, Volume 197, 253-282.
Optimal Large Population Tullock Contests (with Saptarshi Mukherjee) ; Oxford Open Economics, 2023, Volume 2, 1--11.
Survival of Altruistic Preferences in a Large Population Public Goods Game (with Sarvesh Bandhu); Economics Letters, 2023, Volume 226, 111113.
The Logit Dynamic in Supermodular Games with a Continuum of Strategies: A Deterministic Approximation Approach (with Sayan Mukherjee and Souvik Roy); Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, Volume 139, 133-160.
Evolutionary Robustness of Dominant Strategy Implementation (with Sarvesh Bandhu); Economic Theory, 2023, Volume 76, 685-721.
Generalized Perturbed Best Response Dynamics with a Continuum of Strategies (with Sayan Mukherjee and Souvik Roy); Journal of Economic Theory, 2022, Volume 200, 105398.
An Evolutionary Approach to Pollution Control in Competitive Markets (with Vinay Ramani); Dynamic Games and Applications, 2022, Volume 12, 872--896 (special issue on Dynamic Games in Environmental Economics and Management).
Evolutionary Implementation in Aggregative Games (with Saptarshi Mukherjee); Mathematical Social Sciences, 2021, Volume 109, 137-151.
Dominant Strategy Implementation in a Large Population Public Goods Game (with Saptarshi Mukherjee) ; Economics Letters, 2020, Volume 197, 109616.
Convergence to Walrasian Equilibrium with Minimal Information ; Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2020, Volume 15, 553-578.
Elimination of Non-Individualistic Preferences in Large Population Aggregative Games; Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2019, Volume 84, 150-165.
Evolutionary Implementation in a Public Goods Game (with Saptarshi Mukherjee); Journal of Economic Theory, 2019, Volume 181, 423-460.
Nonatomic Potential Games: The Continuous Strategy Case (with Man Wah Cheung); Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, Volume 108, 341-362 (special issue in honor of Lloyd S. Shapley).
An Evolutionary Analysis of Growth and Fluctuations with Negative Externalities (with Anindya S. Chakrabarti); Dynamic Games and Applications, 2018, Volume 8, 733-760.
Equilibrium Selection in the Stag Hunt Game under Generalized Reinforcement Learning ; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, Volume 138, 63-68.
Productivity Dispersion and Output Fluctuations: An Evolutionary Model (with Anindya S. Chakrabarti) ; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, Volume 137, 339-360.
Large Population Aggregative Potential Games; Dynamic Games and Applications, 2017, Volume 7, 443-467.
The Logit Dynamic for Games with Continuous Strategy Sets (with Frank Riedel); Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, Volume 91, 268-282.
The Dynamics of Generalized Reinforcement Learning (with Robert M. Seymour); Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, Volume 151, 584-595.
Reinforcement Learning in Population Games (with Robert M. Seymour); Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, Volume 80, 10-38.
The Dynamic Instability of Dispersed Price Equilibria ; Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, Volume 146, 1796‐1827.
The Projection Dynamic and the Replicator Dynamic (with William H. Sandholm and Emin Dokumaci); Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, Volume 64, 666-683.
The Projection Dynamic and the Geometry of Population Games (with William H. Sandholm); Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, Volume 64, 565-590.
Can incomplete information lead to better social outcomes? (with Vinay Ramani); Managerial and Decision Economics, 2020, Volume 41; 771-783.
Does Multiple Borrowing Necessarily Mean Over-Borrowing? (with Viswanath Pingali and Santadarshan Sadhu); Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 2016, 27; 132-141.
Expansion and Welfare in Microfinance: A Screening Model (with Viswanath Pingali); Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 1-7.
Risk Diversification through Multiple Group Formation in Microfinance (with Viswanath Pingali); Applied Economics Letters, 2014, Volume 9, 622-625.
Tributes to Bill Sandholm (with Dai Zusai, Ryoji Sawa, Man Wah Cheung, Jiabin Wu); Journal of Dynamics and Games, 2022, Volume 9, 323-350.
A Limit Cycle View of Inequality (with Anindya S. Chakrabarti) (2019); in Network Theory and Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance, eds. Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Lukas Pichl, Taisei Kaizoji, Springer Singapore.
Absence of Economic and Social Constants (with Anindya S. Chakrabarti); The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2016, Volume 225, 3115-3119.
Lending to Low Income Households and Enterprises (with Shilpa Sathe and Arun Kumar D); in Financial Engineering for Low-Income Households, eds. Bindu Ananth and Amit Shah, Sage Publications India, 2012.
Evolution in Bayesian Supermodular Population Games ; Studies in Microeconomics, 2013, Volume 1, 59-80.
Evolutionary Game Theory: An Exposition; Indian Growth and Development Review, 2012, Volume 5, 202-213.