I have moved to the University of Texas at Austin.

For up-to date papers, see

 https://sites.google.com/site/vbhaskarut/

 

 

 

Recent Research

 My recent research focuses on the causes and consequences of marriage market imbalances, and is available here.

Here is an article I wrote for the newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, on the subject.

 

 

 

 

Recent Publications

A Foundation for Markov Equilibria in Sequential Games with Finite Social Memory (with George Mailath and Stephen Morris), Review of Economic Studies, July 2013.

Can Observers Predict  Trustworthiness? (with Michele Belot and Jeroen van de Ven), Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2012.

Parental Altruism  and Child Labor: Examining the Historical Evidence from the United States, (with Bishnupriya Gupta), Cliometrica, 2012.

Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination  (with Michele Belot and Jeroen van de Ven),  Journal of Human Resources, 2012.

Sex Selection and Gender Balance. , American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011. (This version incorporates the corrigendum that was published in the May 2011 issue).

Promises and Cooperation, (with Michele Belot and Jeroen van de Ven), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010.

Games Played in a Contracting Environment,  Games & Economic Behavior, 2009.

Commitment and Observability in a Contracting Environment,  Games & Economic Behavior, July 2009.

Rational Adversaries? Evidence from Randomized Trials in One Day Cricket, Economic Journal, January 2009

Purification in Infinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma (with George Mailath and Stephen Morris), Review of Economic Dynamics, July 2008.

India's missing girls: Biology, customs and economic development, (with Bishnupriya Gupta) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007.

The Kinked Demand Curve, forthcoming in the second edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume.
 

Partial Privatization and Yardstick Competition: Evidence from Employment Dynamics in Bangladesh (with Bishnupriya Gupta and Mushtaq Khan), Economics of Transition, 2006.

Is Perfect Price Discrimination Really Efficient? An Analysis of Free Entry (with Ted To), Rand Journal of Economics, December 2004.

Migration and the Evolution of Conventions, (with Fernando Vega-Redondo), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, November 2004..

Oligopsony and the Distribution of Wages (with Ted To), European Economic Review, 47, 371-399. (2003)..

Asynchronous Choice & Markov Equilibria, (with Fernando Vega-Redondo), Journal of Economic Theory, 103, 334-350. (2002).

Oligopsony and Monopsonistic Competition in Labor Markets (with Alan Manning & Ted To),  Journal of Economic Perspectives 16, 155-174. (2002).

On Endogenously Staggered Prices, Review of Economic Studies, 69, 97-116. (2002).

Moral Hazard and Private Monitoring, (with Eric van Damme), Journal of Economic Theory 102, 16-39. (2002).

Belief based Equilibria in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma with Private Monitoring (with Ichiro Obara), Journal of Economic Theory 102, 40-69. (2002).

Egalitarianism and Efficiency in Repeated Symmetric Games, Games and Economic Behavior, 32, 247-262. (2000).

Minimum Wages for Ronald McDonald Monopsonies: A Theory of Monopsonistic Competition, (with Ted To), Economic Journal, 109, 190-203. (1999).

Noisy Communication and the Evolution of Cooperation, Journal of Economic Theory, 82, 110-131. (1998).

Informational Constraints and the Overlapping Generations Model: Folk and Anti-Folk Theorems, Review of Economic Studies, 65, 135-149 (1998).

The Competitive Effects of Price-Floors, The Journal of Industrial Economics, 45, 329-340. (1997).

Privatization and Employment: A study of the Jute Industry in Bangladesh, (with Mushtaq Khan), American Economic Review, 85, 267-273 (1995).

The North, the South and the Environment (edited with Andrew Glyn, Earthscan (London), February, 1995.

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