Tridib Sharma
October 2014
Contact:
Centro de Investigación Económica
ITAM
Ave. Santa Teresa # 930
México, D. F. 10700, México
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +52(55) 5 628 4000 Ext. 2963
Fax: +52(55) 5 628 4058
Education:
B.A. (Hons) in Economics, University of Delhi, 1984.
M.A. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1987.
M. Phil in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1990.
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Southern California, January 1996.
Employment:
July 1994 – December 1995, Center for Telecom Management, Los Angeles, Researcher.
August 1996 – July 2002, ITAM, Assistant Professor.
July 2002 – Aug. 2003, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Visiting Prof.
October 2002, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, Visiting Scholar.
August 2002 – August 2007, ITAM, Associate Professor.
November 2008 – August 2010, Director, CIE, ITAM.
August 2010 – August 2012, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, Visiting Professor.
August 2007 – present, ITAM, Professor.
Services:
Editorial board: Estudios Económicos, 2006 – 2010.
Refereeing: Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic
Behavior, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Journal of Mathematical Economics, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy.
Grants:
CONACyT: (Mexican N.S.F.) Grant (ITAM), 1998-1999.
CONACyT: (Mexican N.S.F.) Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Level 2), 2001 –2013.
Asociación Mexicana de Cultura: Research Funding, 2002 – present.
Field of Specialization:
Game Theory, Mechanism design, Experimental Economics.
Courses Taught:
Game Theory, Topics in Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Industrial Organization,
Development Economics, History of Economic Thought, Intermediate Microeconomics.
Publications:
1. “On cost sharing in the provision of a binary and excludable public good” (with J. Massó,
A. Nicolò, A. Sen and L. Ülkü). Accepted, Journal of Economic Theory (2014).
2. “Coordination in teams.” (with R. Torres), in Dimensions of economic theory and policy, essays for
Anjan Mukherji, edited by K. G. Dastidar, H, Mukhopadhyay and U. B. Sinha, (2011),
Oxford University Press.
3. “Interest rate discrimination, tenancy and cost sharing.” (with B. Saha), Indian Growth and
Development Review, (2011), Vol.4 (Iss. 2), 153-165.
4. “Bankruptcy and firm finance.” (with S. Krasa and A. Villamil), Economic Theory, (2008),
Vol. 36 (Num. 2), 239-266.
5. “Recommended play and correlated equilibria: An experimental study.” (with T. Cason),
Economic Theory, (2007), Vol 33 (Num. 1), 11-27.
6. “Portfolio delegation under short-selling constraints.” (with J. P. Gomez), Economic
Theory, (2006), Vol. 28, 173-196.
7. “Health insurance in rural India.” (with J. Mudgal and S.Sarkar), Economic and Political
Weekly of India, (2005), Vol. 41(43), 4640-4646.
8. “Debt contracts and cooperative improvements.” (with S. Krasa and A. Villamil), Journal
of Mathematical Economics, (2005), Vol. 41, 857-874.
9. “Optimal contracts when enforcement is a decision variable: A comment.” Econometrica, (2003), Vol.
71, 387-390.
10. “Enforcing property rights through reputation: Mexico's early industrialization, 18781913.” (with Noel Maurer), Journal of Economic History, (2001), Vol. 61, 950-973.
11. “Durable goods Coasian dynamics and uncertainty: Theory and experiments.” (with T.
Cason), Journal of Political Economy, (2001), Vol. 109, 1311-1354.
Working Papers:
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“Dominated choices.” (with Radovan Vadovic). Under journal submission.
“In praise of secret deliberation.” (with Parimal Bag).
“Money back guarantees.” (with B. McWilliams and L. Ülkü).
“A theory of add-ons.” (with L. Ülkü).
“Correlated predictions.” (with T. Cason and R. Vadovic). Under preparation.
“Mediated communication, a characterization.” (with A. Sen and S. Tarafdar).
Conferences and Seminars:
University of Southern California (2014), Los Angeles.
Monash University (2013), Melbourne.
Econometric Society Australasian Meetings (2013), Sydney.
Delhi School of Economics (2012), New Delhi.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (2011), New Delhi.
Concordia University (2008), Montreal.
Social Choice and Welfare Meetings (2008), Montreal.
University of Glasgow (2007), UK.
University of Nottingham (2007), UK.
South East Asia Meetings of the Econometric Society (2006), India.
Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (2006), Mexico.
Southern Methodist University (2006), USA.
University of Girona (2005), Spain.
Purdue University (2004), USA.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2004), USA.
2004 Latin American Conference (2004), Stanford University, USA.
Society for the Development of Economic Theory Meetings (2003), Greece.
Conference on Game Theory (2003), India.
Fifth Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy (2003), India.
Frontiers in Latin American Political Economy (2002), Stanford, USA.
Western Financial Association Meetings (2001), USA.
First World Congress of the Game Theory Society (2000), Spain.
Erasmus University (2000), Netherland.
Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (1999), Mexico.
Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings (1999), USA.
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society (1998), Montreal.