Sougata Poddar

Sougata Poddar has taught Economics and Business in various leading universities worldwide for several years. Presently he is a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. His areas of research interest are Applied Economic Theory, Industrial Organization and Competition Policy.

Sougata received his PhD in Economics from Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Sougata has taught Economics, Statistics and Business in various leading universities worldwide for several years. He had held faculty positions at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, National University of Singapore (NUS), IGIDR in India, Hanyang University in South Korea, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand, Chapman University and University of California, Irvine in USA.

He has published widely in the field of Strategic Behavior of Firms, Technology Transfer and Licensing, Economics of Digital Piracy and Copyright Issues. His publications appeared in Economic Theory, Economics Letters, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Record, Canadian Journal of Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory among other leading journals of economics and generated significant research impact and citations.

His general research focus is to understand and analyze the impact of consumer behavior, firm strategies, emerging technologies and technology trends in the decision-making process of firms and competition policies from government agencies.

Sougata’s current research focuses to explore what causes the recent dominance of big firms in some industries, particularly the tech industry, and its impact on the market and the society. Consequently, the need is to reform the existing competition policies and firm regulations to let the market operate more efficiently and benefit the greater society in a more equitable way. Sougata is excited to work and collaborate in this important area of research.

Sougata continues to work on these issues alongside teaching and guiding young researcher scholars; and serve the academic community at large.