Viswanath Pingali

Area

Primary Area : Economics

Secondary Area : Strategy

Contact

Email : viswanath@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 4859

Secretary : Anjali Nair

Phone : +91-79-7152 7742

Website : Personal Website

Education

Ph.D, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, 2007

M. A , Economics, Northwestern University, 2002

M.S, Quantitative Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 2001

Teaching

Firms and Markets (PGPX)
Microeconomics (PGP)
Game Theory and Experiments (PGPX)
Game Theory and Applications (PGP)

Research Area

Applied Game Theory

Applied Econometrics

Behavioral Economics

Regulatory Economics

Pharmaceuticals

Journals

"Expansion and Welfare in Microfinance: A Screening Model," Economic Modelling, Vol. 53, February 2016 (with Ratul Lahkar)

"Does Multiple Borrowing in Microfinance Necessarily Mean Over-Borrowing," Enterprise Development and Microfinance, forthcoming (with Ratul Lahkar and Santadarshan Sadhu) Working paper version

"Strategic Investment in Merchant Transmissions: The Impact of Capacity Utilization Rules," Energy Policy, Vol. 85, October 2015 (with Federico Boffa and Francesca Sala)

"The Consumer Welfare Implications of Patent Protection and Pricing in the Indian Oral Anti-Diabetic Market," Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 44, December 2015 (with Chirantan Chatterjee and Kensuke Kubo)

"Risk Diversification Through Multiple Group Membership in Microfinance," Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 21, Issue 9, 2014 (with Ratul Lahkar)

"Endowment Effect in Bundles," Studies in Microeconomics, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2016 (with Swati Dutta and Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay)

"Increasing Market Interconnection: an Analysis of the Italian Electricity Spot Market," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 28, No. 3, Pages 311 - 322, 2010 (with Federico Boffa and Davide Vannoni)

Working Papers & Projects

"Is 2% the Solution? Experimental Evidence of the New CSR Rule in India," IIMA working paper, 2015, with Naman Desai and Arindam Tripathi (under review)

"Are Investors Ethics Agnostic?" IIMA working paper, 2015, with Saravana Jaikumar and Vineet Virmani (under review)

Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry, IIMA Working Paper, 2012

Other Publications

"Crocin or Paracetamol: What Should the Doctor Prescribe?" Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII, No. 41, 2013 (with Chirantan Chatterjee and Kensuke Kubo)

"Balancing Affordability and Availability in a Drug Patent Regime," Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 41 (with Chirantan Chatterjee)

"Competition and Intellectual Property Policies in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector," Vikalpa, 42 (2): 61 - 79. (with Shamim Mondal)

"The Economics of Competition Law," in Pingali (eds.) Colloquium on Competition Law in India: Perspectives, Vikalpa, 41 (2): 1 - 26. (with Shamim Mondal)

"Internet Search Engines and Two-Sided markets," Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (32): 61-66.

Consulting

Demand Estimation for GSPC Gas , 2013

Economic Impact Assessment of Tata Nano, 2014

An Assessment of Competition Commission of India and Its Advocacy Programs, 2019

Impact Assessment of ONGC's CSR spending, on going

Awards & Honors

2019 - SRK Distinguished PGPX Faculty Aaward

Faculty & Research

Viswanath Pingali