Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

347, SSS II

Off. Phone

011-26704448

kgd0302[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, krishnendu.dastidar[at]gmail[dot]com, kgd12[at]yahoo[dot]com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Post-Doctoral Research: 1997-98, Department of Economics, Harvard University, USA, with "Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship" (Supervisor- Prof. Eric Maskin)

Ph.D (Economics): 1993, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Supervisor- Prof. Anjan Mukherji)

MPhil (Economics): 1990, first class, from Jawaharlal Nehru University (Supervisor- Prof. Ramprasad Sengupta)

Master’s (Economics): 1988, first class, from Jawaharlal Nehru University

Bachelor’s (Economics Honours): 1985, first class, from Presidency College, Calcutta University.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Oligopoly Theory, Auction Theory, Game Theory

Experience

Teaching in CESP, JNU since 1995.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. “Basic auction theory revisited” International Journal of Economic Theory vol. 11 (2015)

2. "On Stackelberg games in a homogeneous product market" European Economic Review vol. 48 (2004).

3. "Is a unique Cournot equilibrium locally stable?" Games and Economic Behaviour vol. 32 no. 2 (2000).

4. "Comparing Cournot and Bertrand in a homogeneous product market" Journal of Economic Theory vol. 75, No. 1 (1997)

5. "On the existence of pure strategy Bertrand equilibrium" Economic Theory (vol. 5, 1995)

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. Oligopoly, Auctions and Market Quality”, Springer, Tokyo, Japan (2017)

2. “Nature of Competition and new technology adoption” Pacific Economic Review vol. 20 (2015)

3. “Corruption in delegated public procurement auction” (with D. Mukherjee) European Journal of Political Economy vol. 35 (2014)

4. "Bertrand equilibrium with subadditive costs" Economics Letters vol. 112 (2011)