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  • Utteeyo Dasgupta

    Assistant Professor of Economics
    717-358-4767
    Office: STA-332

    Professional Biography

    Education

    Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2006
    M.A. University of Arizona
    M.A. Jawaharlal Nehru University
    B.A. University of New Delhi, India

    Research Interests

    Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Game Theory and Industrial Organization.

    Link to current research: http://edisk.fandm.edu/utteeyo.dasgupta/research.html

    Publications

    Peer Reviewed Articles:

    • "Is There A Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk? A Dual Calibration Critique" (Joint with Jim Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Bodo Vogt), Economic Theory, 2012, (DOI) 10.1007/s00199-012-0712-4.
    • "Are Entry Threats Always Credible?", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Contributions), 2011, Article 73.
    • "Trust and Trustworthiness among Economics Majors" (Joint with Arjun Menon '11), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31 no.4, 2011, pp. 2799-2815.
    • ''Do procedures matter in fairness allocations? Experimental evidence in mixed gender pairings'', Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31 no.1, 2011, pp. 820-829
    • "Nudging Students Forward Towards Backward Induction." Journal of Industrial Organization Education, 2010, Vol. 5 Iss 1, Article 3 
    • “Potential Competition in the Presence of Sunk Entry Costs: An Experiment”, Special Issue: Laboratory experiments in economics, finance and political science, New Zealand Economic Papers, Volume 43, Issue 2 August 2009 , pp 203 - 225.
    • “Contestability and the Significance of the Entrant’s Home Market: Dissertation Abstract”: In Experimental Economics, Volume 10, Number 2 / June, 2007.
    • “When Firms Contest”: In Developments on Experimental Economics: New Approaches to Solving Real-World Problems, Oda, Sobei H. (Ed.), 2007 (Springer).
    • “Minding Your Own Business.” In Proceedings: The Experimental Economics Week in Honour of Dr Vernon L. Smith, Kyoto and Okayama, Japan, 13-17 December 2004, (Eds) Programing Committee of the Hayashibara Forum 2004 and the Open Research Centre of the Graduate School of Kyoto Sangyo University

    Other

    • Book review: “A guide to behavioral economics by Swartz,” Journal of Economics Issues, December 2010.

    Presentations

     Invited Presentations:

    • BEEMA Research Workshop on Experimental Economics, Haverford College, March 2012
    • Workshop on Experimental Economics, Calcutta University, June 14, 2011 
    • Fordham University, Department of Economics, March 2010
    • Invited to present a session on Experimental Design in The Workshop on Experimental Economics, Department of Economics,      Calcutta University, June 2009
    • Rutgers University, Department of Economics, April 2009
    • International Conference on Experimental Economics, Experimental Economics Center, Department of Economics, Jadavpur    University, December 23-25, 2008
    • Center for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2007
    • Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India 2007
    • University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand April 2006
    • Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania January 2006
    • Bank of America, January 2006
    • EES, International Conference on Experimental Economics, 2004 Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan

    Conference Presentations

    • North American ESA Conference, Tucson, Nov. 2012
    • Economic Science Association Conference, New York 2012
    • Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington D.C., 2011
    • North American ESA Conference, Tucson, 2011
    • Annual International Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Chicago, 2011
    • International Atlantic Economic Conference, Athens, 2011
    • Southern Economic Association, Annual Conference, Atlanta, 2010
    • Asia-Pacific ESA conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2010 [Accepted]
    • Econometrics Society Australasian Meetings(ESAM07), Brisbane, Australia, 2007
    • Economic Science Associations, World Meeting at LUISS in Rome, 2007 [Accepted]
    • Southern Economic Association, Annual Conference, Charlotte, 2006
    • Economic Science Association, Regional Meetings, Tucson, 2006
    • Western Economic Association Annual Conference, San Diego, 2006
    • Southern Economic Association, Annual Conference Washington, 2005
    • ESA North America Meetings, Tucson, 2005
    • Western Economic Association conference, San Francisco, 2005
    • ESA North America Meetings 2005, Montreal [Accepted]
    • ESA North America Meetings, Tucson, 2004

    Workshop

    • Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics workshop in San Diego, 2013
    • Workshop on Teaching Innovations Program (TIP) in Economics, Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 6-8, 2008
    • Workshop on using experiments for Teaching, Southern Economic Association, Annual Conference Washington, 2005 

    Student Collaborations

    • Arjun Menon won a summer grant, a decision science grant and presented his project titled "Does Studying Economics Influence Trust or Trustworthiness?" at the 2011 F&M Research Fair. He was also profiled in the "Closer Look". [Advisor].
    • Charles Arayata successfully defended  his thesis Examining Decision-Making in Couples Using Attachment Theory and Game Theory:An Experimental Approach in 2009; [Co-advisor/Dissertation Committee member]. 
    • Nathan Wohl won the Marshall Grant, and presented his project titled "Deal Or No Deal: Game-Theoretic Solutions To The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" at the 2008 F&M Research Fair. [Advisor].

    Course Information

    Courses offered regularly:
    ECO 350 - Game Theory
    ECO 205 - Intermediate Microeconomics
    ECO 100 - Introduction to Economic Principles
     
    Other Courses offered:
    ECO 373 - Industry Structure and Firm Behavior
    ECO 305 - Industrial Organization Theory
    ECO 377 - Economics of Strategy
    FND- Nature of  Human Nature
     
    Other Teaching Interests:
    Experimental Economics, Behavioral Game Theory