Souvik Dutta

Professor Dutta teaches postgraduate and doctoral level courses in Managerial Economics, Microeconomics, and Game Theory. His research interests primarily lie in areas of Applied Microeconomics, Game Theory, Development and Political Economy. Before joining IIMB in September 2014, he completed his PhD in Economics from Pennsylvania State University. Working Papers:

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Engagement Informal Insurance and Group Size Under Individual Liability Loans (with Somdutta Basu) Ethnic Conflicts, Rumours and an Informed Agent (with Pathikrit Basu and Suraj Shekhar) Work in Progress:

Informal Insurance under Group Lending with Individual Liability: Evidence from India (with Somdutta Basu and Abhirup Sarkar) [Financial Support from International Growth Center, London School of Economics] Forgive and Forget: Optimal Forgiveness in Repeated Interactions (with Somdutta Basu and Suraj Shekhar) Book:

Facilitating Trade and Global Competitiveness: Express Delivery Services in India (co-authored with Arpita Mukherjee, Parthapratim Pal, Subrata Mitra, and Ramneet Goswami), Oxford University Press, 2012.

Grants:

Grant from International Growth Center, London School of Economics: “Informal Insurance under Group Lending with Individual Liability: Evidence from India” Conferences attended/presented:

Winter School 2014, Delhi School of Economics 10th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi