RAMAKANTA PATRA
41 Alexandra Road, Egham, UK TW20 0RR
Tel: +44 (0) 7445-208969 E-mail: [email protected]
https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/ramakanta-patra/home
Education
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
Ph.D., Economics, Submitted : Nov 2015; Expected : Jan 2016
Thesis: Essays on Price Competition and Statistical Applications
Advisors: Dr. Maris Goldmanis and Prof. Francesco Feri
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
M.S. (Mathematics), 2011; M.S. (Economics), 2008
Thesis: Optimal Control in Hybrid Dynamic Beam Movements with specific
application to wind mills
Advisor: Prof. David L. Russell
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
M.A.(Economics), 2005
Research
Interests
Primary: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization
Secondary: Game Theory, Computational Methods, Applied Econometrics
Working
Papers
1. Collusion with Private Information and Fixed Costs (Job Market Paper )
Work in
Progress
1. Repeated Collusion with Hidden Investment (with Satoshi Fukuda).
2. A Model of Bertrand Duopoly with Unknown Costs (Research Paper )
2. Pure Strategy Equilibrium with One-sided Uncertainty in Bertrand
Games (with Frank Zhou)
3. Stochastic Utility in Ramsey Model (with Hans Werner van Wyk and
V.L. Raju Chinthalapati )
Publications in
Other Fields
References
1. R. Patra and D.M.Heyes, Statistical fluctuations along the LennardJones melting curve, Comp. Meth. Sci.& Techn. (accepted for publication
and currently in press).
Dr. Maris Goldmanis
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 7401309945
B [email protected]
Professor Francesco Feri
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 1784 443378
B [email protected]
Professor Robert Sauer
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 1784 443378
B [email protected]
Dr. Rajeev Sooreea
Dominican University of California
San Rafael, CA 94901
USA
T +1 (415) 482 1855
B [email protected]
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Other Papers
1. Optimal Control in Hybrid Dynamic Beam Movements with specific
application to wind mills (with David L Russell )
Conference
Presentations
• Ph.D seminar, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Nov 2015
• Summer School in Economic Theory (poster talk), The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel
2014, 2015
• Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual Conference, University of
Manchester, UK
Mar 2015
• RES Job-market presentation, UCL, UK
Jan 2015
• Ph.D conference, Royal Holloway, UK
2013, 2015
• Initiative for Computational Economics (ICE) Summer school (poster
talk), University of Chicago, USA
2012
• Kentucky Economic Association Meeting, Louisville, USA
2004
Research
Experience
Research Assistant for Richard Steinberg (LSE), and Sotiris Georganas
(Royal Holloway)
Jan 2013 – Sep 2013
Topic: Experiements in combinatorial auctions
Duties: Literature review, conducting lab experiments, running Z-tree programs
and data collection
Research Assistant for Paul S. Carlin (Indiana University), and Michael
P. Kidd (Deakin University)
May 2004 – May 2005
Topic: Does legal heritage affect obesity? The channel of motor vehicle
dependence
Duties: Collecting and cleaning data from PSID and BHS data sets, running
econometric estimations of various nature using SAS program and writing
reports
Teaching
Experience
Royal Holloway, University of London
Course Lecturer
Econ 5555 - Pre-sessional Math for masters
Econ 3326 - Contracts and Incentives
2014, 2015
Spring 2015
Teaching Associate
Econ 3313 - Industrial Economics
Econ 1102 - Quantitative Methods
2011- present
Spring 2012
Brunel University, London
Course Lecturer
Econ 3066 - Industrial and Managerial Economics
Econ 2604 - Economics of Information
Autumn 2014
Spring 2013
SOAS, University of London
Course Tutor
153400108, Advanced Economic Analysis
153400003, Introduction to Economic Analysis
2013-14
2013-14
London School of Economics and Political Science
Course Tutor
Econ 313 - Industrial Economics
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2012-13
Virginia Tech, USA
Head Teaching Assitant in Economics and Tutoring Center Manager for
all undergraduate courses in economics
2006-08
Radford University, USA
Course Lecturer
Math 125,126 - Mathematics for Business
2010–11
Indiana University, USA
Course Lecturer
Econ 201 - Principles of Microeconomics
Teaching Assistant (for Prof. Subir Chakrabarti)
Econ 521 - Advanced Microeconomics (masters)
2004–06
Referee
service
Economic Modelling
Royal Economic Society (RES) Symposium of Junior Researchers
Spring Meeting for Young Economists
2015
2016
2012–14
Awards
Scholarships
• Reid Fellow (most prestigious fellowship offered to an incoming Ph.D
student at Royal Holloway)
2011-14
• IUPUI scholar, Indiana University, USA
2003, 2004
• National Merit Scholarship, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India ( most
prestigous scholarship for high school matriculates in India)
1992-99
Travel Awards, Summer Fellowships
• Summer School in Economic Theory fellowship (Dynamic Games), The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jun 2015
• RES Conference Grant, RES Annual Meetings, Manchester,
UK
May 2015
• Chicago-Minnesota Theory Conference, University of Chicago, USA (Travel
award made by Royal Holloway)
Sep 2014
• Summer School in Economic Theory fellowship (Market Design), The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jun 2014
• Review of Economic Studies Tour (travel award), Kings College,
Cambridge, UK
May 2014
• ICE Summer Fellowship, University of Chicago, USA
Jul 2012
2002–04
Student Awards – University of London (Royal Holloway)
• Teaching Fellow Prize, Department of Economics
2015
• Economics department nomination for college outstanding post-graduate
teaching award
2012, 2013, 2015
Student Awards (Nomination) – Brunel University, London
• Nominated for College Exceptional Module Award (nominated by the
students for Managerial and Industrial Economics class)
2015
Service
• Personal Adviser, Department of Economics, University of London (Royal
Holloway)
Sep 2014 – Aug 2015
• Student member, Ph.D curriculum committee, University of London (Royal
Holloway)
Oct 2011 – Sep 2014
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• Represented the university Ph.D community in the college curriculum
committee to help plan Ph.D studies, help resolve issues facing Ph.D
students and vote for policies governing Ph.D curriculum
• Secretary, SIAM chapter of Virginia Tech, USA,
2010–2011
• Organized seminars and speakers in the graduate mathematics seminars
Software
Skills
Computer Programming:
• Matlab, Stata, SAS, Mathematica and LaTex
• DynamO
• AMPL, KNITRO, SNOPT, PATH and applications of NEOS solvers
Language
Skills
English (proficient), Hindi(proficient), Odiya (Native), Sanskrit (intermediate)
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