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Nirvikar Singh Home  Directory Nirvikar Singh
| Education History | |
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
| Research Focus | |
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Industrial organization, political economy, economic development, hi-tech and innovation. |
| Long Description | |
Nirvikar Singh joined the faculty in 1982. He directs the Business Management Economics program and is codirector of the Santa Cruz Institute of International Economics. He has also taught at the Delhi School of Economics. His visiting research appointments have been at Stanford University; the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi; Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Centre for Development Economics, Delhi; and Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Professor Singh's main current research is on federalism, governance, and economic reform in India. He is working with Dr. Govinda Rao on a book, The Political Economy of Indian Federalism. He has worked on decentralization and local government reform in India for the World Bank. His other research topics include electronic commerce, technology and innovation, the strategic behavior of governments toward multinational corporations, international technology transfer, international water disputes, and economic growth and development in South and East Asia. He has also conducted theoretical research on how asymmetric information affects the structure and performance of markets and organizations, and has done empirical research in energy economics. |
| Selected Publications | |
"Welfare Policy: Cash vs. Kind, Self-selection and Notches"(with R. Thomas), Southern Economic Journal, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 976-990, 2000.
"Rent Seeking and Rent Setting with Asymmetric Effectiveness of Lobbying" (with I. Kohli), Public Choice, Vol. 99, No. 3-4, 275-298, Jun.1999.
"The Composition of U.S.-East Asia Trade and Changing Comparative Advantage" (with T. Carolan and C. Talati), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 57, 361-389, Dec.1998.
"Contest Design and the Objective of the Contest Designer: Sales Promotions, Sporting Events, and Patent Races, (with Donald Wittman) in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Volume 7: Contests, ed. Michael Baye, Stamford, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1998.
"Cultural Conflict in India: Punjab and Kashmir", in The Myth of "Ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "Cultural" Violence ed. B. Crawford and R. Lipschutz. Berkeley: International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1998.
"Two Level Negotiations in Bargaining Over Water" (with A. Richards), in Game Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research, ed. T. Parthasarathy, B. Dutta, J.A.M. Potters, T.E.S. Raghavan, D. Ray and A. Sen, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
"On Federalism and Reform in India", Seminar, no. 459, pp. 54-62, October 1997.
"Nash Bargaining with the Option to Wait", Economics Letters, Vol. 55, No. 1, 69-73, Aug.1997.
"Governance and Reform in India", Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 6 No. 2, 179-208, Jun. 1997.
"Equilibrium Real Interest Rate Linkages: The United States and Japan" (with M. Hutchison), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 208-227, Jun.1997.
"Foreign Technology, Spillovers, and R & D Policy" (with M. Muniagurria), International Economic Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, May 1997.
"The Political Economy of Indian Fiscal Federalism" (with K. Kletzer), in Public Finance: Policy Issues for India, ed. S. Mundle, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. |
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