Professor Ananish Chaudhuri
Head of Department
Department:
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 88307
Email: a.chaudhuri@auckland.ac.nz
Web Page: http://homes.eco.auckland.ac.nz/acha192/

Ananish joined The University of Auckland in 2003. He has taught at Wellesley College and Washington State University prior to this. His primary research area is experimental economics with an emphasis on the role of trust, reciprocity and altruism as well as the role of social norms in economic interactions. He also does theoretical and empirical work looking at incentive contracts with applications to franchising and land tenancy contracts.

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Qualifications:
1997 Ph.D. in Economics Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
1992 M.A. in Economics Jawaharlal Nehru University
1990 B.Sc. Honours First Class Presidency College, University of Calcutta
Special Interests:
Applied Microeconomics
Economic Development
Experimental Economics
Positions Held:
FromToInstitutionPosition Held
2009 Now University of Auckland Professor
2005 2009 University of Auckland Associate Professor
2003 2005 University of Auckland Senior Lecturer
1998 2003 Washington State University Assistant Professor
Awards:
2008 Sustained research excellence award, University of Auckland Business School, University of Auckland
Teaching:
2012 ECON 151G Understanding the Global Economy
2012 ECON 201 Microeconomics
2012 ECON 776 Experimental Economics
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2009 CHAUDHURI, A.,  SCHOTTER, A.,  SOPHER, B.,  ‘“Coordination in Inter-generational Minimum Effort Games with Private, Almost‘, Economic Journal, Volume 119, January 2009, 91-122.
2009 CHAUDHURI, A.,  CAMERON, L.,  ERKAL, N.,  GANGADHARAN, L.,  ‘Propensities to Engage in and Punish Corrupt Behavior: Experimental Evidence from‘, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 93, 7-8, 843-851.
2006 CHAUDHURI, A.,  GRAZIANO, S.,  MAITRA, P.,  ‘Social Learning and Norms in a Public Goods Experiment with Inter-generational Advice‘, Review of Economic Studies, 73(2), Apr 2006, 357-380.
2003 CHAUDHURI, A.,  KHAN, S.,  LAKSHMIRATAN, A.,  PY, A.,  SHAH, L.,  ‘Trust and Trustworthiness in a Sequential Bargaining Game‘, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 16, (5), pages 331-340.
2002 CHAUDHURI, A.,  ‘"Information Structure and Contractual Choice in Franchising"(with Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Rutgers University and Chester Spell, Washington State University)‘, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol 58 (4), December 2002, pages 638-663.
2002 CHAUDHURI, A.,  ‘Cooperation in Social Dilemmas, Trust and Reciprocity (with Barry Sopher, Rutgers University and Paul Strand, Washington State University)‘, Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 23(2), March 2002, pages 231-249.
2002 CHAUDHURI, A.,  ‘On the Choice of Tenancy Contracts in Rural India, (with Pushkar Maitra, Monash University)‘, Economica, Vol. 69, Issue 275, August 2002, pages 445-459.
2001 CHAUDHURI, A.,  ‘Formal and Informal Sector Credit Institutions and Interlinkage, (with Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Rutgers University)‘, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 46 (3), November 2001, pages 312-325.
1998 CHAUDHURI, A.,  ‘The Ratchet Principle in a Principal Agent Game with Unknown Costs: An Experimental Analysis‘, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 37(3), November 1998, pages 291-304.
Books
2009 CHAUDHURI, A.,  ‘Experiments in Economics: Playing Fair with Money‘, Routledge, 272.



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