Abhijit Sengupta

Abhijit Sengupta received his PhD from State University of New York and was on the faculty of the University of Western Ontario and of Waterloo University in Canada before joining the University of Sydney. Abhijit's main research interest is game theory. His research has been published in leading journals in economics such as American Economic Review and Journal of Economic Theory.

One of his current research projects on coalition formation is supported by an Australian Research Council Large Grant for years 2000-02. Abhijit was involved in the 1.3 billion dollar mobile telephony spectrum auction that took place in Australia during 2000 as a consultant on bidding strategy.

Research Expertise

• Economic Theory

Research Interests

• Bargaining theory
• Coalition formation
• Game theory

Publications

2008

Journal Article/s

Sengupta A and Sengupta K 2008 'A Hotelling-Downs model of electoral competition with the option to quit', Games and Economic Behavior, vol.62:2, pp. 661-674

1997

Journal Article/s

Sengupta A, Burbidge JB, DePater J and Myer GM 1997 'A Coalition-Formation Approach to Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs', American Economic Review, vol.87:5, pp. 940-56

1996

Journal Article/s

Sengupta A and Sengupta K 1996 'A property of the core', Games and Economic Behavior, vol.12:2, pp. 266-73

1994

Journal Article/s

Sengupta A and Sengupta K 1994 'Viable proposals', International Economic Review, vol.35:2, pp. 347-59