Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Research Interests
Publications
Files

Dr Mandar Oak

Telephone	+61 8 8303 5539
Position	Senior Lecturer
Email	mandar.oak@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8223 1460
Building	Napier
Floor/Room	G 39
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Economics, School of

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Biography/ Background

I received my Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. I joined the School of Economics at Adelaide starting Jan 2008. Before that I taught at Williams College in Williamstown MA.

Qualifications

Ph. D. (2002) Cornell University, Ithaca NY. M.A. (1997) Delhi School of Economics, Delhi. B. Com (1995) Mumbai University, Mumbai.

Research Interests

Public Economics
Political Economy
Applied Microeconomics

Publications

Only Twice as Much: A Rule for Regulating Lenders, (with A. Swamy). Economic Development and Cultural Change (forthcoming).
Party Formation and Coalitional Bargaining in a Model of Proportional Representation, (with S. Bandyopadhyay). European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 24, June 2008, pp 554-561.
Evolution of Credit Market Regulation (in India), Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu (Editor), Oxford University Press: New Delhi (2007).
Policy Convergence under Approval and Plurality Voting: The Role of Policy Commitment, (with A. Dellis). Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 29(2), September 2007, pp 229-245.
A Case for Bundling Contributions to Public Goods (with S. Ghosh and A. Karaivanov). Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 9(3), June 2007, pp 425-449.
On the Role of the Primary System in Candidate Selection. Economics and Politics, Vol. 18(2), July 2006, pp 169-190.
Approval Voting with Endogenous Candidates (with A. Dellis). Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 54(1) (January 2006), pp 47-76.
The Signaling Role of Municipal Currencies in Economic Development (with R. Jayaraman). Economica, Vol. 72, November 2005, pp 597-613.

Files

Here is my CV - Mandar_Oak_CV(aug08).doc [55.5K] (application/msword)

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