Oligopoly, Auctions and Market Quality

1 Introduction.- 2 Allocation of scarce resources.- 3 E¤ects of corruption and incompetence in the quality monitoring process.- 4 On some aspects of scoring auctions.- 5 Some specifc market quality issues in emerging economies.- References.- Index.

Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of specialization are oligopoly theory and auction theory. He was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He pursued his Post-Doctoral research in 1997-98 as a visiting fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University, USA (with a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship). He has been a visiting research scholar at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Japan during April-July, 2010 and during the academic year 2013-14. He has published in leading economics journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, International Journal of Economic Theory, European Economic Review, and Games and Economic Behavior. He is on the editorial board of International Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Quantitative Economics and Arthaniti (Economics).

"This is a book of high quality bringing to bear sophisticated theoretical analysis on problems of practical interest. ... it will be fully appreciated only by specialists, the author makes a sincere effort to make it accessible to non-specialists by providing extensive background material and summaries." (Arunava Sen, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 17, 2019)


"The book is primarily a theoretical contribution to the economics of market quality. Here, the author is in his usual self and has done the job very meticulously. ... this is an interesting reading for the researcher and advanced undergraduate and graduate students who know oligopoly and auction theory. Any researcher having an interest in applied theory related to market quality would find it very useful as there are some open questions which they can pick up and pursue." (Uday Bhanu Sinha, Indian Economic Review, August, 2018)
"The issues and problems dealt with in this book are motivated by real-life examples, mostly from emerging economies. The treatment is entirely theoretical, but possible directions of application are indicated. This book will be extremely useful for graduate students of economics and management sciences for starting a systematic inquiry into this area." (Diganta Mukherjee, Studies in Microeconomics, Vol. 6 (1-2), 2018)