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Mandar P. Oak

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Education

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Analytical Views of Political Economy
• Game Theory and Information Economics
• Public Choice

Graduate

• Topics in Economic Theory

Research Fields

• Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
• Political Economy
• Public economics

Publications

• “The Signaling Role of Municipal Currencies in Economic Development” (with R. Jayaraman), Economica Vol.72 (November 2005), pp 597-613.
• “Approval Voting with Endogenous Candidates”, (with A. Dellis), Games and Economic Behavior , Vol. 54(1)(January 2006), pp 47-76.
•  “On the Role of the Primary System in Candidate Selection”, Economics and Politics ,Vol. 18(2) (July 2006), pp 169-190
• “A Case for Bundling Contributions to Public Goods” (with S. Ghosh and A. Karaivanov).Journal of Public Economic Theory (forthcoming)
• “Policy Convergence under Approval and Plurality Voting: The Role of Policy Commitment”, (with A. Dellis). Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming).
• “Evolution of Credit Market Regulation in India ”, Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu (Editor), Oxford University Press: New Delhi (forthcoming).

Working Papers

• “Only Twice as much: A Simple Rule for Regulating Lenders” (with A. Swamy), July 2006.
• “Party Formation and Coalitional Bargaining in a Model of Proportional Representation”, May 2006 (with S. Bandyopadhyay). Under revise and resubmit at European Journal of Political Economy.

Work in Progress

• "Electing a Legistlature under Alternative Voting Rules" ( With A. Dellis).
• "Policy Responsiveness to Conflict: the Case of a Hawkish Drift in Leadership?” February 2006 (with S. Bandyopadhyay).
• "On the Weakness of Weak Dominance in Voting Games" (with A. Dellis).
• "Multiple Public Goods Provision under Voluntary Coasian Bargaining."

Referee Work

Seminars/Conferences

• Department of Economics Seminar Series, Williams College (March 2003)
• Public Choice Society Meetings at Nashville (April 2003)
• Department of Economics, University of Birmingham (March 2004)
• Royal Economic Society Meetings at Swansea Wales (April 2004)
• Stony Brook Game Theory Festival (July 2004, July 2005)
• NEUDC at Brown University (September 2005)
• Florida Atlantic University (October 2005)
• Williams College, Dept Seminar (November 2005)
• University of Western Ontario (Nov 2005)
• Cornell University (Feb 2006)
• Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India (June 2006)
• Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India (July 2006)

Grants

• Henry George Research Grant, Department of Economics, Williams College (Summer 2004)
• Oakley center Research Fellowship (Fall 2005)
• Sage Graduate Fellowship and Best TA Award (1997, 2001)

References