Welcome!

I am Bharat Goel, a doctoral fellow in Economics at IIM Calcutta. I have defended my doctoral thesis and will start working as a Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc) at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich from June 2018.

Please see my personal Academic Website for more details about my research:

https://goelbharat.weebly.com

Area Of Specialization: Applied Micro Theory (specifically Contest Theory), Public & Political Economics

My photograph: https://goelbharat.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/4/5/114503945/editor/dsc-0022.jpeg?1510256199

I have pursued a doctorate in Economics under the guidance of Professor Arijit Sen [ https://www.iimcal.ac.in/users/arijitsen ].

I have defended my doctoral dissertation titled “Contests between Unequal Opponents: Three Explorations”. My dissertation enquires into the nature and consequences of (bilateral) conflicts between a priori unequal opponents in diverse contexts. Three essays present game-theoretic models of conflicts in three different environments, in each of which an a priori weak contestant is pitted against an a priori strong contestant. I have attempted to answer the following kinds of questions in my dissertation:

• Which, if any, of the two agents gains from the conflict?
• Is the ex post asymmetry in outcomes of the two agents ‘better’ (in some specific senses) than the ex ante asymmetry between them, or is it ‘worse’?
• What are the social consequences of such conflicts, and how do these consequences depend upon the initial asymmetry between the contestants?
• Will the use of supporters by the contestants help or hurt their outcomes?

I will start working as a Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc) at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich from June 2018.

CV: https://goelbharat.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/4/5/114503945/cv.pdf

ACADEMIC WEBSITE: https://goelbharat.weebly.com

[3] FPM (Ph.D.) in Economics, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 06/2012 – 04/2018

Thesis title: Contests between Unequal Opponents: Three Explorations

[Thesis defended] [Principal Advisor: Professor Arijit Sen, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta]

[2] Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 06/2010 – 04/2012

[1] Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 07/2004 – 05/2008

Primary: Applied Microeconomic Theory (especially Contest Theory), Public & Political Economics

Secondary: Information Economics, Industrial Organization, Development Economics

[1] Appropriative Conflicts and the Evolution of Property Rights (with Arijit Sen)

(Working Paper at IIMC named WPS-801; submitted)

https://www.iimcal.ac.in/sites/all/files/pdfs/wps_801.pdf

[2] Bower-birds’ Mate-selection Contests: Analysis and an Application (mimeo)

https://goelbharat.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/4/5/114503945/bower-birds.pdf

[3] Contests with Foot-Soldiers (with Arijit Sen) (mimeo)

https://goelbharat.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/4/5/114503945/foot-soldiers.pdf

2017:

Winter School, Delhi School of Economics

Annual Conference on Economic Growth & Development, ISI Delhi

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata

IMR Doctoral Conference, IIM Bangalore

2016:

Winter School, Delhi School of Economics

27th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University

GAMES 2016, 5th Game Theory World Congress, Maastricht University

Contests: Theory and Evidence, University of East Anglia

2015:

Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI Delhi

Game Theory / Decisions and Games (MBA second-year elective course): Teaching Assistant for Prof Arijit Sen (thrice)

Microeconomics (MBA first-year core course): Teaching Assistant for Prof Arijit Sen (twice)

Research Assistant for Prof Arijit Sen, 03/2017 – 12/2017

Summer Internship, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, 05/2007 – 07/2007

• bharatg12[at]email.iimcal.ac.in
• bharatgoel85[at]gmail.com

[This webpage updated in: April 2018]