Viplav Saini

Department of Economics

6th Floor

19 W 4th St

New York , NY 10003

email: firstname DOT lastname @nyu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, 2009, Johns Hopkins University

M.A. Economics, 2003, Delhi School of Economics

B.A. Economics, 2001, University of Delhi

EXPERIENCE

Clinical Associate Professor of Economics, NYU, 2019 – present

Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Oberlin College, 2015 – 2019

Assistant Professor of Economics, Oberlin College, 2009 – 2015 

Visiting Scholar in Economics, University of Michigan, 2012 – 2013 

RESEARCH

Published Papers

1. "Endogenous Asymmetry in a Dynamic Procurement Auction" RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 43, No. 4, Winter 2012.

2. "Capacity Constraints and Information Revelation in Procurement Auctions: Experimental Evidence" Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53, No. 2, April 2015. , with Jordan Suter (Colorado State)

3. "Reserve Prices in a Dynamic Auction when Bidders are Capacity-Constrained" Economics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 3, September 2010

4. "Returns on Indian Art during 2000-2013" Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring 2016, with Jenny Rae Hawkins (Case Western). [ACEI Working Paper # AWP 3-2014]

5. "Government Spending and Job Creation at Highway Construction Firms: Evidence from Texas," Economics Bulletin, Vol. 35, No.1, March 2015, with Dakshina De Silva (Lancaster University)

Working Papers (e-mail me for copies)

1. "Entry, Exit, and Investment in Auction Markets" [R&R RAND Journal of Economics] 

presentations:
NBER Industrial Organization Program Meeting, SIEPR, Stanford University
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Pennsylvania

2. "Effects of e-bidding in Procurement Auctions in Nepal" with Matias Herrera (World Bank)

TEACHING

ECON-UA 10: Intermediate Microeconomics

ECON-UA 11: Microeconomic Analysis

ECON-UA 316: Industrial Organization

ECON-UA 354: Health Economics

ECON-UA 410: Honors Research Seminar