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University of Exeter Business School

Professor Surajeet Chakravarty

Professor Surajeet Chakravarty

Associate Professor in Economics, Director of Postgraduate Research Students (Economics)

 S.Chakravarty@exeter.ac.uk

 3419

 +44 (0) 1392 723419

 Streatham Court 1.26

 

Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK


Overview

Administrative responsibilities

  • Business Economics Programme Director

Qualifications

PhD (University of Southern California)

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Research

Research interests

Surajeet's interests include contract theory, allocation mechanisms and banking. His interest in contract theory is specifically in cases when contracting parties are unable to verify the outcome. His interest in contract theory extends to contract law, tort law and corporate law analysis.

Surajeet is also interesed in the analysis of allocation of goods specifically where price cannot be used to allocate goods. While most goods can be allocated using prices and most economics has focussed on this aspect of allocation in for number of goods prices can not be used.

Research interests

  • Information Economics.
  • Contract theory, Theory of firm, Allocation Mechanisms
  • Banking
  • Law and Economics

Current research activity

Surajeet's present research is focussed on a few topics. Firtsly, on allocation of goods using non-price mechanisms. He is also working on analysis of mechanisms to resolve disputes when contract outcomes are not verifiable. His work in law and economics at present includes analysis of tort law under ambiguity. Finally, his present research includes informational problems in banking and bank fragility.
 

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Publications

Journal articles

Chakravarty S (In Press). Pre-play promises, threats and commitments under partial credibility. Economic Inquiry
Chakravarty S, Kelsey D, Teitelbaum J (In Press). Reverse Bayesianism and Act Independence. Journal of Economic Theory
Chakravarty S, Choo L, Fonseca M, Kaplan T (In Press). Should regulators always be transparent? a bank run experiment. European Economic Review
Chakravarty S (In Press). Tort Liability and Unawareness. International Economic Review
Chakravarty S, Kaplan TR, Myles G (In Press). When Costly Voting is Beneficial. Journal of Public Economics
Chakravarty S, Fonseca MA, Ghosh S, Kumar P, Marjit S (2019). Religious fragmentation, social identity and other-regarding preferences: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 82 Abstract.
Chakravarty S, Kelsey D (2016). Ambiguity and Accident Law. Journal of Public Economic Theory
Chakravarty S, Fonseca MA, Ghosh S, Marjit S (2016). Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Conflict: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India. PLOS ONE, 11(10), e0164708-e0164708.
Chakravarty S, Fonseca MA, Ghosh S, Marjit S (2016). Religious fragmentation, social identity and cooperation: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India. European Economic Review, 90, 265-279. Abstract.
Fonseca MA, Chakravarty S (2015). Discrimination via Exclusion: an Experiment on Group Identity and Club Goods. Journal of Public Economic Theory
Chakravarty S, Kelsey D (2015). Sharing ambiguous risks. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 56, 1-8. Abstract.
Chakravarty S, Fonseca MA, Kaplan TR (2014). An Experiment on the Causes of Bank Run Contagions. European Economic Review, 72, 39-51.
Chakravarty S, Fonseca MA (2014). The Effect of Social Fragmentation on Public Good Provision: an Experimental Study. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 53, 1-9.
Chakravarty S, Kaplan T (2013). Optimal allocation without transfer payments. Games and Economic Behavior, 77(1), 1-20. Abstract.
Makris M, Chakravarty S (2012). Designing Incentives under Multidimensional Performance Measures. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, 168(4).
Chakravarty S, Makris M (2012). Designing Incentives under Multidimensional Performance Measures. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 111(2), 122-124. Abstract.
Chakravarty S, Ghosh S (2011). An experimental investigation of entry cost effects in sealed-bid dollar auctions. Economics Letters, 111(2), 122-124.  Author URL.
Chakravarty S, Kaplan TR (2010). Vote or Shout. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 10(1). Abstract.
Chakravarty S, MacLeod WB (2009). Contracting in the shadow of the law. The RAND Journal of Economics, 40(3), 533-557. Abstract.

Reports

Chakravarty S, Makris M (2008). To Reward Success or Not to Reward?.

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Teaching

Courses I have taught include: Game theory, Industrial Organisation, Banking, and Microeconomics at graduate and undergraduate level.

Modules

2023/24


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