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Sugato Dasgupta

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

330, SSS-II

Off. Phone

26704467

sugato@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D (Economics), MIT, USA
Ph.D (Political Science), Michigan State University, USA

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political Economics, Public Economics

Experience

Since October 1999: Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
June 1999 - September 1999: Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. "A principal-agent model of elections with novice incumbents: Some experimental results," (with Kenneth C. Williams), Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 14, 2002, 409-438.

2. "The political determinants of fiscal policies in the states of India: An empirical investigation," (with Kausik Chaudhuri), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42, 2006, 240-261.

3. "Coordinated voting in sequential and simultaneous elections: Some experimental evidence," (with Kirk A. Randazzo, Reginald S. Sheehan, and Kenneth C. Williams), Experimental Economics, Vol. 11, 2008, 315-335.

4. "A strategic model of technology adoption and labor specialization," Keio Economic Studies, Vol. 45, 2008, 17-37.

5. "Electoral goals and center-state transfers: A theoretical model and empirical evidence from India," (with Wiji Arulampalam, Amrita Dhillon, and Bhaskar Dutta), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 88, 2009, 103-119.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. "Encompassing interests, regionalism and public investment," (with Bhaskar Dutta and Kunal Sengupta), in S. Guha, R.P. Kundu and S. Subramanian (eds.), Themes in Economic Analysis: Theory, policy and measurement, Routledge, New Delhi, 2015.

2. "The 11-20 money request game and the level-k model: Some experimental results," (with Rajendra P. Kundu and Sanmitra Ghosh), in S.K. Jain and A. Mukherji (eds.), Economic Growth, Efficiency and Inequality, Routledge, New Delhi, 2015.

Patents (if any)