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Economic Research Unit

Economic
Research
Unit

Manipushpak Mitra

Professor

Economic Research Unit, Kolkata

Social Sciences Division

Kolkata Headquarters

+913325752608

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Research Interests :

Game theory, Individual and collective choice, Industrial organization, Mechanism design under incomplete information and Social choice theory.

Academic Profile :

Past Positions:
1) Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, June 2006-June 2012.
2) Assistant Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, October 2002-May 2006.
3) Post-doctoral Fellow (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)), Economic
Theory I, University of Bonn, Germany-October 2000 to September 2002.

Academic Qualifications:
1) Ph. D. (Economics) 2000, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India.
2) M. A. (Economics) 1993, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.

Ph. D. Thesis:
1) Thesis Title: Essays on First Best Implementable Incentive Problems.
2) Thesis Supervisor: Professor Arunava Sen, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India.
3) Thesis Referees: Professor Eric Stark Maskin, Harvard University, USA and Professor
Herv´e Moulin, University of Glasgow, UK.

Publications :

Books:

A Course on Cooperative Game Theory. With Satya R. Chakravarty and Palash Sarkar.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge House, Delhi, India, 2015.

Journal Publications:

Egalitarianism in the queueing problem. With Youngsub Chun and Suresh Mutuswami. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 81(2), 48-56 (2019).
Recent developments in the queueing problem. Joint with Youngsub Chun and Suresh Mutuswami. Invited article: TOP, DOI: 10.1007/s11750-019-00499-0.
Incentives and justice for sequencing problems. With Parikshit De. Economic Theory, 64 (2), 239-264 (2017).
Reordering an existing queue. With Youngsub Chun and Suresh Mutuswami. Social Choice andWelfare, 49 (1), 65-87 (2017).
Bidding rings-A bargaining approach. With Kalyan Chatterjee and Conan Mukherjee. John Nash Memorial Special Issue: Games and Economic Behavior, 103, 67-82 (2017).
Privatization, underpricing and welfare in the presence of foreign competition. With Arghya Ghosh and Bibhas Saha. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 17(3), 433-460 (2015).
A characterization of the symmetrically balanced VCG rule in the queueing problem. With Youngsub Chun and Suresh Mutuswami. Note: Games and Economic Behavior, DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2015.04.001.
Strategyproofness and Pareto-efficiency in quasilinear exchange economies. With Mridu Prabal Goswami and Arunava Sen. Theoretical Economics, 9 (2), 361-381 (2014).
An alternative proof of Fishburn’s axiomatization of lexicographic preferences. With Debapriya Sen. Economics Letters, 124 (2), 168-170 (2014).
Egalitarian equivalence and strategyproofness in the queueing problem. With Youngsub Chun and Suresh Mutuswami. Economic Theory, 56 (2), 425-442 (2014).
Subgroup additivity in the queueing problem. With Youngsub Chun. European Journal of Operational Research, 238 (1), 281-289 (2014).
Characterizations of pivotal mechanisms in the queueing problem. With Youngsub Chun and Suresh Mutuswami. Mathematical Social Sciences, 72 (1), 62-66 (2014).
Reversal of Bertrand-Cournot rankings in the presence of welfare concerns. With Arghya Ghosh. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 170 (3), 496-519 (2014).
Group strategyproofness in queueing models. With Suresh Mutuswami. Games and Economic Behavior, 72 (1), 242-254 (2011).
Efficient allocation of heterogenous commodities with balanced transfers. With Arunava Sen. Social Choice andWelfare, 35 (1), 29-48 (2010).
Comparing Bertrand and Cournot in mixed markets. With Arghya Ghosh. Economics Letters, 109 (2), 72-74 (2010).
Statistics of the Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem. With Asim Ghosh, Arnab Chatterjee and Bikas K. Chakrabarti. Focus Issue: Statistical Physics Modelling in Economics and Finance, New Journal of Physics, 12 (075033), (2010).
On the coincidence of the prenucleolus with the Shapley value. With Anirban Kar and Suresh Mutuswami. Mathematical Social Sciences, 57 (1), 16-25 (2009).
The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem and resource utilization. With Anindya Sundar Chakrabarti, Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Arnab Chatterjee. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388 (12), 2420-2426 (2009).
Regulation of an open-access essential facility. With Axel Gautier. Economica, 75 (300), 662-682 (2008).
Regulating a monopolist with limited funds. With Axel Gautier. Exposita Note in Economic Theory, 27 (3), 705-718 (2006).
Incomplete information and multiple machine queueing problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 165 (1), 251-266 (2005).
Simple sequencing problems with interdependent costs. With Roland Hain. Games and Economic Behavior, 48 (2), 271-291 (2004).
Achieving the first best in sequencing problems. Review of Economic Design, 7 (1), 75-91 (2002).
Mechanism design in queueing problems. Economic Theory, 17 (2), 277-305 (2001).

Other journal publications:

The economics of the Kolkata paise restaurant problem. Joint with Priyodorshi Banerjee and Conan Mukherjee. Science and Culture, 84 (1-2), 26-30, (2018).
What is economics that physicists are mindful of it? Joint with Anindya S. Chakrabarti and Sitabhra Sinha. Editorial Column: The European Physical Journal-Special Topics, 225 (17), 3087-3089 (2016).

Edited books and edited journal volume:

Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization: Essays in Honour of Satya R. Chakravarty. Edited with Indraneel Dasgupta. Springer, Forthcoming-June, 2019.
The European Physical Journal. Special Topics, Discussion and Debate: Can Economics be a Physical Science? Edited with Sitabhra Sinha and Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Volume 225 / No 17-18, December 2016.
Econophysics of Order-driven Markets. Edited with Frederic Abergel, Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Anirban Chakrabarti. New EconomicWindow Series, Springer Verlag Italia, Milan, 2011.