Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Income Tax Evasion and Audits under Common and Idiosyncratic Shocks
  (with Peng Wang)
  (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vo. 184, April 2021, pp. 99-116)
• Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy
  (with Bibhas Saha and Shiva Sikdar)
  (Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 56, Jan. 2021, pp. 173-203)
• Sequential Expert Advice: Superiority of Closed-Door Meetings
  (with Tridib Sharma)
  (International Economic Review, Vol. 60, Nov. 2019, pp. 1877-1910)
• Input, Output or Mixed Monitoring in Teams?
  (with Peng Wang)
  (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 166, Oct. 2019, pp. 471-492)
• Dominance of Contributions Monitoring in Teams
  (with Peng Wang)
  (Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 53, Oct. 2019, pp. 467-495)
• Money Burning in Subjective Evaluation and Limited Liability: A Case for Pay for Performance
  (with Neng Qian)
  (Economics Letters, Vol. 174, Jan. 2019, pp. 208-213)
• Corrupt Bookmaking in a Fixed Odds Illegal Betting Market
  (with Bibhas Saha)
  (Economic Journal, Vol. 127, May 2017, pp. 624-652)
• Match-Fixing in a Monopoly Betting Market
  (with Bibhas Saha)
  (Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 26, Feb. 2017, pp. 257-289)
• Gradualism in Aid and Reforms
  (with Prabal Roy Chowdhury)
  (Journal of International Economics, Vol. 103, Nov. 2016, pp. 108-123)
• Harmful Transparency in Teams
  (with Nona Pepito)
  (Economics Letters, Vol. 144, July 2016, pp. 88-91)
• Proximate Preferences and Almost Full Revelation in the Crawford-Sobel Game
  (with Murali Agastya and Indranil Chakraborty)
  (Economic Theory Bulletin, Vol. 3, Oct. 2015, pp. 201-212)
• Group Size Paradox and Public Goods
  (with Debasis Mondal)
  (Economics Letters, Vol. 125, Nov. 2014, pp. 215-218)
• Bid Coordination in Split-award Procurement: The Buyer Need not Know Anything
  (with Jianpei Li)
  (Economics Letters, Vol. 124, July 2014, pp. 143-146)
• Communication and Authority with a Partially Informed Expert
  (with Murali Agastya and Indranil Chakraborty)
  (RAND Journal of Economics,Vol. 45, March 2014, pp. 176-197)
• Peer Transparency in Teams: Does it Help or Hinder Incentives?
  (with Nona Pepito)
  (International Economic Review, Vol. 53, Nov. 2012, pp. 1257-1286)
• Match-Fixing under Competitive Odds
  (with Bibhas Saha)
  (Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 73, Nov. 2011, pp. 318-344)
• Double-edged Transparency in Teams
  (with Nona Pepito)
  (Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 95, Aug. 2011, pp. 531-542)
• On Sequential and Simultaneous Contributions under Incomplete Information
  (with Santanu Roy)
  (International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 40, Feb. 2011, pp. 119-145)
• Graduated Penalty Scheme
  (with Mehmet Bac)
  (International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 29, Dec. 2009, pp. 281-289)
• Multi-Stage Voting, Sequential Elimination and Condorcet Consistency
  (with Hamid Sabourian and Eyal Winter)
  (Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 124, May 2009, pp. 1278-1299)
• Repeated Charitable Contributions under Incomplete Information
  (with Santanu Roy)
  (Economic Journal, Vol. 118, Jan. 2008, pp. 60-91)
• Beneficial Collusion in Corruption Control: The Case of Nonmonetary Penalties
  (with Mehmet Bac)
  (Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 81, Dec. 2006, pp. 478-499)
• A Note on: Jury Size and the Free Rider Problem
  (with Paul Levine and Christopher Spencer)
  (Economics Bulletin, Vol. 4, Jan. 2006, pp. 1-12)
• Distributing Awards Efficiently: More on King Solomon’s Problem
  (with Hamid Sabourian)
  (Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 53, Oct. 2005, pp. 43-58)
• All-or-Nothing Verdict as a Screening Device
  (with Mehmet Bac)
  (Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 55, July 2003, pp. 536-559)
• Unraveling in First-Price Auction
  (Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 43, May 2003, pp. 312-321)
• Strategic Information Revelation in Fundraising
  (with Mehmet Bac)
  (Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, March 2003, pp. 659-679)
• Committee Decisions with Partisans and Side-Transfers
  (with Mehmet Bac)
  (Theory and Decision, Vol. 52, May 2002, pp. 267-286)
• Law Enforcement and Legal Presumptions
  (with Mehmet Bac)
  (Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 29, Dec. 2001, pp. 722-748)
• More on Phantom Bidding
  (with Emin Murat Dinlersoz and Ruqu Wang)
  (Economic Theory, Vol. 15, April 2000, pp. 701-707)
• Simple Subscription Mechanisms for Excludable Public Goods
  (with Eyal Winter)
  (Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 87, July 1999, pp. 72-94)
• Controlling Corruption in Hierarchies
  (Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 25, Dec. 1997, pp. 322-344)
• Optimal Auction Design and R&D
  (European Economic Review, Vol. 41, Dec. 1997, pp. 1655-1674)
• Public Goods Provision: Applying Jackson-Moulin Mechanism for Restricted Agent Characteristics
  (Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 73, April 1997, pp. 460-472)
• Efficient Allocation of a "Pie": Divisible Case of King Solomon's Dilemma
  (Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 12, Jan. 1996, pp. 21-41)
• Strategic R&D Success Announcements
  (with Sudipto Dasgupta)
  (Economics Letters, Vol. 47, Jan. 1995, pp. 17-26)

UNPUBLISHED REPORTS

• Leadership Delegation: Talent vs. Honesty
  (with Prabal Roy Chowdhury)
• Data-Driven Auditing of Business and Self-Employment Earnings
  (with Neelanjan Datta and Peng Wang)
• Complementarity and Cooperation in Joint Projects: Sabotage by the Weak in Mixed Contests
  (with Peng Wang)
•  Escalations of Domestic Violence
  (with Shiva Sikdar)
• Dowry, Violence and Divorce

OTHERS

• Divide and Lead: Persuasion by Obfuscation
  (with Nona Pepito and Hamid Sabourian)
• Public Funding of Medical Research Prior to Clinical Trials
     (work in progress)
• Social Contests, Women's Labor Force Participation and Investment in Children
  (with Jeraldine Shu Hui Tan) [Advisor: Honours thesis]
• Aspiring Parents and School Contest
  (with Chelsea Chua) [Advisor: Honours thesis]
• Climate Change Policies
      (work in progress, funded by MOE grant)