Department of Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

• Game Theory 
• Microeconomic Theory
• Industrial Organization

Recent Publications:

"Technology Diffusion by Learning from Neighbors," Kalyan Chatterjee and Susan H. Xu, Advances in Applied Probability, 36, # 2 (2004), 355-376.

"Coalition Theory and Applications: A Survey," Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Kalyan Chatterjee, Economic Journal, February 2006.

"Rivals Search for Buried Treasure: Competition and Duplication in R&D" (with R.A. Evans of the University of Cambridge), forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics.

"How Communication Links Influence Coalitional Bargaining: A Laboratory Investigation" (with G. Bolton of Penn State and K.L. McGinn of Harvard University), forthcoming in Management Science.

Game Theory and Business Applications, K. Chatterjee and W.F. Samuelson (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2001.

"Reputation and Signalling Product Quality" (with T. Bandyopadhyay and N. Vasavada), in Game Theory and Business Applications, K. Chatterjee and W.F. Samuelson (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2001.

"Game Theory and the Practice of Bargaining," in Game Theory and Business Applications, K. Chatterjee and W.F. Samuelson (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2001.

"Multiperson Bargaining and Strategic Complexity" (with H. Sabourian), Econometrica, Vol. 68, no. 6 (November 2000), 1491-1509.

"Rubinstein Auctions: On Competition for Bargaining Partners" (with B. Dutta), Games and Economic Behavior, 23, May 1998, pp. 119-145.

"Bargaining and Search with Incomplete Information about Outside Options" (with C.C. Lee), Games and Economic Behavior, 22 no. 2, February 1998, pp. 203-237.

Research:

• "Game Theory and Strategic Complexity" (with H. Sabourian)
• "Academic Citations and Diffusion of Knowledge: An Economic Analysis" (with A. Chowdhury)
• "Concepts of Strategic Complexity in Extensive-Form Unanimity Bargaining" (with H. Sabourian)
• "Menu Choice, Environmental Cues and Temptation: A "Dual Self" Approach to Self-control" (with R. Vijay Krishna)
• "A Geometric Approach to Expected Utility," (with R. Vijay Krishna)
• "A Geometric Approach to Continuous Expected Utility" (with R. Vijay Krishna)
• "Incentive Compatibility in Bargaining Under Uncertainty"
• "Strategic Choice of Sequencing of Negotiations: A Model with One-Sided Incomplete Information" (with N.Y. Kim).
• "Crime as a Local Public Bad, Neighborhood Observation and Reporting" (with S. Bandyopadhyay).
• "A Model of Academic Tenure" (with R.C. Marshall).
• "Technology Diffusion by Learning from Neighbours" (with S.H. Xu).
• "Simultaneous vs. Sequential Auctions, Intensity of Competition and Uncertainty" (with J. Feng).
• The unanimity game with finite automata.
• Investment and incomplete contracts with competition.
• "R&D with rivalry."
• Coalition formation and bargaining.
• "Strategic Audit Policies Without Commitment" (with S. Morton and A. Mukherji).
• "N-Person Bargaining and Strategic Complexity" (with H. Sabourian).
• "How Communication Links Influence Coalition Bargaining: A Laboratory Investigation" (with G.A Bolton and K.L. Valley).
• "Bargaining Under Two-Sided Incomplete Information: The Unrestricted Offers Case" (with L. Samuelson)
• "Comparison of Arbitration Procedures: Models with Complete and Incomplete Information"
• "Markets with Bilateral Bargaining and Incomplete Information," (with Bhaskar Dutta)

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