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VITA
ARIJIT MUKHERJEE | |
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Department of Economics |
Home: 517-339-0913 |
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Michigan State University |
Office: 517-353-5007 |
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110 Marshall Adams Hall |
Cell: 847-858-0311 |
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East Lansing, MI 48824 |
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Date of birth: 19 March, 1977 Citizenship: Indian |
| Ph.D. | Economics, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, 2005 | |
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Dissertation Title: Essays in Economics of Organization Advisor: Michael D. Whinston |
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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. |
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, 2008-present Senior Consultant, Bates White LLC (Antitrust Practice), Washington DC, 2005-2008 |
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Primary: Secondary: |
Economics of Organization, Personnel Economics, Contract Theory. Industrial Organization. |
PUBLICATIONS
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Disclosure or Secrecy? The Economics of Open
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International Journal of Industrial Organization, accepectd subject to minor revisions (with Scott Stern).
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| 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
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"Optimal Disclosure Policy when Firms Offer Implicit Contracts," 2008. | |
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"Optimal Job Design in the Presence of Implicit Incentives," (with Luis Vasconcelos), 2008. | |
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"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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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)
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REFERRING
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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.
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