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ARIJIT MUKHERJEE

Department of Economics

Home: 517-339-0913

Michigan State University

Office: 517-353-5007

110 Marshall Adams Hall

Cell: 847-858-0311

East Lansing, MI 48824

E-mail: arijit@msu.edu

 

URL:    http://www.amukherjee.net

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION  

Date of birth: 19 March, 1977

Citizenship: Indian

 

EDUCATION  

Ph.D.  Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2005   

Dissertation Title: Essays in Economics of Organization

Advisor: Michael D. Whinston  

M.A.

M.S.

B.Sc.

Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, 2001.

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi; India (Summa cum Laude), 2000.

Presidency College, Calcutta; India (Summa cum Laude), 1998.

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY  

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, 2008-present

Senior Consultant, Bates White LLC (Antitrust Practice), Washington DC, 2005-2008

 

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION  

Primary: 

Secondary:

Economics of Organization, Personnel Economics, Contract Theory.  

Industrial Organization.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Disclosure or Secrecy? The Economics of Open Science

International Journal of Industrial Organization, accepectd subject to minor revisions (with Scott Stern).

Deregulation Redux: Does mandating access to bottleneck facilities necessarily improve welfare?

Public Choice, forthcoming (with Richard Higgins).

Career Concerns, Matching, and Optimal Disclosure Policy,

International Economic Review, Vol. 49 (2008), pp. 1211-1250.

Sustaining Implicit Contracts When Agents Have Career Concerns: Role of Information Disclosure

RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 39 (2008), pp. 469-490.

WORKING PAPERS

 

"Optimal Disclosure Policy when Firms Offer Implicit Contracts," 2008.

 

"Optimal Job Design in the Presence of Implicit Incentives," (with Luis Vasconcelos), 2008.

 

"Information Disclosure in Multistage Tournaments," (with Maria Goltsman), 2008. (Submitted)

"Skill Acquisition Under Implicit Contracts,” 2004.
"Social Learning in Slavery Adoption in the United States,” (with Maria Goltsman) 2003.
Test for Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets: A Semi-Parametric Model," 2003.  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE  

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program, 2002-2004.

Business Strategy and Organizations, Financial Markets and Investments, Game Theory,

Formal Theory of Justice (Political Economy and Social Choice), Intermediate Econometrics.

 

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Department of Economics, 2001-2002.

Introduction to Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Finance.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Bates White Research Enhancement Grant, 2005.

Center for the Study of Industrial Organization Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2004.

The Graduate School and the Office for Research 2004/2005 Conference Travel Grant, Northwestern University.

University Fellow, Northwestern University, 2000 - 2001.

Calcutta University Fellowship for Master’s Program, 1998-2000.

 

INVITED SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND CONFERENCES 

Tournaments, Contests, and Relative Performance Evaluation, NC State University, Raleigh, NC (2008)

IESE (2008)

London Business School (2008)

Michigan State University (2008)

North American Summer Meeting of The Econometric Society, Duke University, Durham, NC (2007)

Indian School of Business (2007)

Pennsylvania State University (2006)

North American Summer Meeting of The Econometric Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2006)

Canadian Economic Association 40th Annual Meetings, Concordia University, Montréal (2006)

Fall 2005 Midwest Economic Theory and Trade Conference, Lawrence, KS (2005)

Bates White LLC (2005)

Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (2005)

Rutgers Business School (2005)

Northwestern University, Applied Microeconomics Workshop (2004)

Fall 2004 Midwest Economic Theory and Trade Conference, St. Louis, MO (2004)

IMS/ASA’s SRMS Joint Mini Meeting on Current Trends in Survey Sampling and Official Statistics, Raichak, India (2004)

 

REFERRING

Economic Bulletin, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics.

 

REFERENCES


Professor Michael D. Whinston

Department of Economics

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60208

Phone: 847-491-8260

E-mail: mwhinston@northwestern.edu


Professor Dale T. Mortensen

Department of Economics

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60208

Phone: 847-491-8230

E-mail: d-mortensen@northwestern.edu


Professor Scott Schaefer

David Eccles School of Business

University of Utah

1645 East Campus Center Drive

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Phone: 801-585-1925

E-mail: scott.schaefer@business.utah.edu

Professor Alessandro Pavan

Department of Economics

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60208

Phone: 847-491-8266

E-mail: alepavan@northwestern.edu