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My research interests are in Microeconomics, Game Theory, Industrial Organisation, Strategic Experimentation, Epidemiology, Crime and Economics.

Current Working Papers:

1. Strategic disclosure in research races [with Kalyan Chatterjee, Miaomiao Dong and Nicolas Klein] Revised and Resubmitted to Journal of Economic Theory
2. To catch a thief: Endogenous policing and choice of location by criminals [with Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Antonio Cabrales]

    

3. Over-and Under-Experimentation in a Patent Race with Private Learning

               [with Nicolas Klein]

    

4. The effect of mergers on innovation: Insights from a two-avenue model [with Tatiana Mayskaya and Arina Nikandrova]

Work in Progress:

1. Synergistic Bandits [with R.Vijay Krishna and Sasa Pekec]

    

2. Bargaining and endogenous deadlines [with Kalyan Chatterjee]

    

3. The political economy of pandemics [with Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and

        Kalyan Chatterjee]

1. The Effect of merger on innovation [with Tatiana Mayaskaya and Arina

        Nikandrova] American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 18.2 (2026) 348-394

    

2. Strategic Experimentation with asymmetric safe payoffs [with Nicolas Klein and Katharina Schmid] Economics Letters 239 (2024)

    

3. Exogenous Shocks and Electoral Outcomes [with Atisha Ghosh

          and Pushkar Maitra] Public Choice 201 (2024) 145-179

    

4. Do Stronger Patents Lead to Faster Innovation? The Effect of Clustered

              Search [with Nicolas Klein] International Economic Review 65.2 (2024)    915-954            

              

    

5. Learning versus habit formation: Optimal timing of lockdown for disease

             Containment [with Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Kalyan Chatterjee and Jaideep  

           Roy] Journal of Mathematical Economics 93 (2021): 102452.                                           

    

6. Strategic Experimentation with Asymmetric Players [with Nicolas Klein and Katharina Schmid] Economic Theory 69.4 (2020): 1147-1175.

    

    

7. Bilateral trading with incomplete information and price convergence in a small market: The continuous support case [with Kalyan Chatterjee] Economics Letters 163 (2018): 118-120.

    

8. Bilateral trading and incomplete information: Price convergence in a small market [with Kalyan Chatterjee] Games and Economic Behavior 106 (2017): 89-113.

    

9. Decentralised bilateral trading, competition for bargaining partners and the “law of one price” [with Kalyan Chatterjee] International Journal of Game Theory 44.4 (2015): 949-991.

My broad teaching interests are in Microeconomics, Game Theory, International Trade and Theory of Finance. Modules taught in Leicester

1. EC3071: Managerial Economics (Undergraduate)

2. EC3098: Business Economics (Undergraduate)

3. EC7086: Microeconomics (Postgraduate)