Sambuddha Ghosh Telephone (office): (617) 353 4031 270 Bay State Road E-mail: [email protected] Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 February, 2012
Personal Citizen of India Visa Status: H-1
Education Ph.D. (Economics) 2008 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Financial Economics Master of Arts in Economics 2008 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (MSQE) 2003 Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Rank: first, graduated First division with distinction Bachelor of Science with Honours in Economics 2001 Presidency College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Rank: first, graduated First Class with Honours
Teaching Experience Teaching, Boston University, 2008–2012 Topics in Game Theory for 2nd-year Ph.D. students (Eco 716) in fall 2008-2011 Game Theory (Eco 513) in spring 2009, fall 2010, spring 2012 Game Theory (Eco 403) in spring 2010-2012
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, August 2005–2008
Employment Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University, 2008-2012
Scholarships and Awards Graduate Fellowship, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 2003-2008 Summer Funding, Graduate School, Princeton University, 2003-2007 APGA Summer Travel Fund grant, Princeton University, summer 2007 Goldfeld Fellowship, Princeton University, 2007 and 2008 Mrs. Iyengar Gold Medal, awarded by the Indian Statistical Institute for outstanding performance in MSQE course, 2003 Fellowship, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2001-2003 Graduated First Class First from Presidency College in 2001
Research Interests
Economic Theory, Game Theory, Political Economy
1 Publications and Working Papers
“ Ideologues Beat Idealists” with Vinayak Tripathi, solicited by AEJ: Microeconomics, forthcoming May 2012
“Multiple Opponents and the Limits of Reputation” (2012)
“Reputation with Commitment Types that Mix” (2012)
“Prisoner’s Dilemma with Real Talk,” with Benjamin Bachi, & Zvika Neeman (2011)
“Dynamic Competing Mechanisms,” with Seungjin Han (2012)
“Self Accessibility & Public Randomisation in Repeated Games,” with Ani Dasgupta (2011)
“Optimal Multi-period Health Insurance,” with Ching-to Albert Ma, in progress
Talks
2007: Indian Statistical Institute, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, India, June 2007 Penn State University, Department of Economics, November 2007
2008: Northwestern University, MEDS, January 2008 University of Washington at St. Louis, January 2008 Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, Feb 2008 Boston University, Feb 2008
2009: Indian Statistical Institute, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, India, August 2009 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2009 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, November 2009
2010: Duke University, Durham, USA, May 2010 University of Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2010
2011: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, Jan 2011 Invited lecture, Advances in Economic Theory II, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta and CSSC, Patuli, Dec 2010 Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, February 2011 Arizona State University, USA, November 2011
2 Conferences
Advanced Topics in Game Theory, summer lecture series, Indian Statistical Institute, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, India, June 2007
Social Choice and Welfare, June 2008 (Montreal), and June 2010 (Moscow)
Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2008, SMU, Singapore
North American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Summer Session, Boston, June 2009
European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Summer Session, Barcelona, June 2009
Game Theory and Complexity, Lisbon, November 2009
Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal, May 2010
Stony Brook International Game Theory Festival, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, July 2010
Workshop on Political Economy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, July 2010 (plenary talk)
Econometric Society World Congress, Shanghai, August 2010
Advances in Theory II (ISI and CSSS), Kolkata, Dec 2010
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