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Welcome to IGIDR Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Pal Rupayan

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Education: Ph.D. (Economics), I G I D R, December, 2006
Office Telephone: +91-22-28416545
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Economics of Information, Labour Economics, Development Economics, Applied Econometrics.

Selected Publications:

I. Industrial Organisation

� Union-Oligopoly Bargaining and Entry Deterrence: A Reassessment of Limit Pricing (Co-author Bibhas Saha), Journal of Economics, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 121-147, 2008. [Springer]

� Cooperative Managerial Delegation, R&D, and Collusion, Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 155-169, 2010. [Blackwell]

� Technology Adoption in a Differentiated Duopoly: Cournot versus Bertrand, Research in Economics, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 128-136, 2010 [Elsevier]

� The Impact of Group Incentives on Performance of Small Firms: Hausman-Taylor Estimates (Co-author Kshitija Dixit), Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol 31, No. 6, pp. 403-411, 2010 [Wiley-Blackwell]

II. Labour Economics

� Wage Commitment, Signalling and Entry Deterrence or Accommodation (Co-author Bibhas Saha), LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol 20, No 4, pp. 625 - 650, 2006. [Blackwell]

� Union-Firm Bargaining Under Alternative Pay Schemes: Does Performance Related Pay Fare Better? Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 103 - 112, 2006

� Impact of `Communist Parties' on the Individual Decision to Join Trade Union: Evidence from India, The Developing Economies, Forthcoming in Vol. 48, No. 4, December 2010 [Wiley-Blackwell]

III. Public Economics / Environmental Economics

� Environmental Standards as Strategic Outcomes: A Simple Model (Co-author R. N. Bhattacharya), Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 408-420, 2010 [Elsevier]

IV. Finance and Development

� The Relative Impacts of Banking, Infrastructure and Labour on Industrial Growth: Evidence from Indian States, Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, [Routledge] (Forthcoming)

� Outreach of Banking Services across Indian Sates: 1981-2007 Converging or Diverging? (with R. R. Vaidya), in D. M. Nachane (Ed.) India Development Report 2010, Oxford University Press, (Forthcoming)

V. Economics and Politics

� A Scrutiny of the MP-LADS in India: Who Is It For? (Co-author Aparajita Das) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 63-68, 2010

Working Papers:

� Delegation and Emission Tax in a Differentiated Oligopoly (IGIDR-WP-2009-007)

� Privatization and Environment (with Bibhas Saha)

� Measuring Financial Inclusion: An Axiomatic Approach (Co-author Satya R. Chakravarty) (IGIDR-WP-2010-003)

� Entry Threats and Inefficiency in �Efficient Bargaining� (with Bibhas Saha)

� How Much Should You Own? Cross-Ownership and Privatization

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