Professor Subhasish M. Chowdhury

Department of Economics

Professor of Economics

subhasish.chowdhury@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3319

Room 511, 9 Mappin Street

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Professor Subhasish M. Chowdhury
Department of Economics
Room 511
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

Profile: Subhasish M. Chowdhury joined Sheffield as Professor of Economics in 2022. His areas of research interest cover both theoretical and applied investigations of problems in Conflict, Industrial Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy. Subhasish serves as a Co-Editor of the journals ‘Frontiers in Behavioral Economics’, and ‘Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy’ and is an editorial board member of ‘Studies in Microeconomics’. He has also served as a guest-editor for ‘Economic Inquiry’ and the ‘Journal of Economics Psychology’. His research has been published in journals such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Theory etc.

Publications

Journal articles

Brañas-Garza P, Modak Chowdhury S, Espín AM & Nieboer J (2023) ‘Born this way’? Prenatal exposure to testosterone may determine behavior in competition and conflict. Journal of Economic Psychology.
Chowdhury SM, Esteve‐González P & Mukherjee A (2023) Heterogeneity, leveling the playing field, and affirmative action in contests. Southern Economic Journal, 89(3), 924-974.
Modak Chowdhury S, Mukherjee A & Turocy TL (2022) And the first runner-up is...: comparing winner selection procedures in multi-winner Tullock contests. Review of Economic Design.
Baik KH, Chowdhury SM & Ramalingam A (2021) Group size and matching protocol in contests. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 54(4), 1716-1736.
Chowdhury SM, Jeon JY, Kim C & Kim SH (2021) Gender differences in repeated dishonest behavior: Experimental evidence. Games, 12(2).
Chowdhury SM, Kovenock D, Rojo Arjona D & Wilcox NT (2021) Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contests. The Economic Journal, 131(636), 1593-1619.
Chowdhury SM, Kim C & Kim S (2021) Pre‐planning and its effects on repeated dishonest behavior: An experiment. Bulletin of Economic Research, 73(2), 143-153.
Chowdhury SM (2020) Conflict in the Time of (Post-) Corona: Some Assessments from Behavioral Economics. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 26(3).
Chowdhury SM & Crede CJ (2020) Post-cartel tacit collusion: Determinants, consequences, and prevention. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 70, 102590-102590.
Chowdhury SM, Grossman PJ & Jeon JY (2020) Gender differences in giving and the anticipation regarding giving in dictator games. Oxford Economic Papers, 72(3), 772-779.
Chowdhury SM, Mukherjee A & Turocy TL (2020) That’s the ticket: explicit lottery randomisation and learning in Tullock contests. Theory and Decision, 88(3), 405-429.
Chowdhury SM & Karakostas A (2020) An experimental investigation of the ‘tenuous trade-off’ between risk and incentives in organizations. Theory and Decision, 88(1), 153-190.
Baik KH, Chowdhury SM & Ramalingam A (2020) The effects of conflict budget on the intensity of conflict: an experimental investigation. Experimental Economics, 23(1), 240-258.
Chowdhury SM (2019) The attack and defense mechanisms: Perspectives from behavioral economics and game theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42.
Chowdhury SM, Datta D & Dhar S (2019) Auction Versus Posted Price Mechanisms in Online Sales: The Roles of Impatience and Dissuasion. Studies in Microeconomics, 7(1), 75-88.
Chowdhury SM, Jeon JY & Ramalingam A (2018) PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LOSS AVERSION IN CONTESTS. Economic Inquiry, 56(3), 1492-1511.
Chowdhury SM (2017) The All-Pay Auction with Nonmonotonic Payoff. Southern Economic Journal, 84(2), 375-390.
Chowdhury SM & Kim S-H (2017) “Small, yet Beautiful”: Reconsidering the optimal design of multi-winner contests. Games and Economic Behavior, 104, 486-493.
Chowdhury SM, Jeon JY & Saha B (2017) Gender Differences in the Giving and Taking Variants of the Dictator Game. Southern Economic Journal, 84(2), 474-483.
Balart P, Chowdhury SM & Troumpounis O (2017) Linking individual and collective contests through noise level and sharing rules. Economics Letters, 155, 126-130.
Brown A & Chowdhury SM (2017) The hidden perils of affirmative action: Sabotage in handicap contests. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 133, 273-284.
Chowdhury SM & Martin S (2017) Exclusivity and exclusion on platform Markets. Journal of Economics, 120(2), 95-118.
Chowdhury SM & Moffatt PG (2017) OVERBIDDING AND HETEROGENEOUS BEHAVIOR IN CONTEST EXPERIMENTS: A COMMENT ON THE ENDOWMENT EFFECT. Journal of Economic Surveys, 31(2), 572-576.
Chowdhury SM, Jeon JY & Ramalingam A (2016) Identity and group conflict. European Economic Review, 90, 107-121.
Chowdhury SM & Topolyan I (2016) Best-shot versus weakest-link in political lobbying: an application of group all-pay auction. Social Choice and Welfare, 47(4), 959-971.
Choi JP, Chowdhury SM & Kim J (2016) Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 118(4), 816-840.
Chowdhury SM, Lee D & Topolyan I (2016) The Max-Min Group Contest: Weakest-link (Group) All-Pay Auction. Southern Economic Journal, 83(1), 105-125.
Chowdhury SM & Topolyan I (2016) THE ATTACK‐AND‐DEFENSE GROUP CONTESTS: BEST SHOT VERSUS WEAKEST LINK. Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 548-557.
Chowdhury SM & Gürtler O (2015) Sabotage in contests: a survey. Public Choice, 164(1-2), 135-155.
Chowdhury SM & Sheremeta RM (2015) Strategically equivalent contests. Theory and Decision, 78(4), 587-601.
Chowdhury SM & Kim S-H (2014) A note on multi-winner contest mechanisms. Economics Letters, 125(3), 357-359.
Chowdhury SM, Sheremeta RM & Turocy TL (2014) Overbidding and overspreading in rent-seeking experiments: Cost structure and prize allocation rules. Games and Economic Behavior, 87, 224-238.
Chowdhury SM & Jeon JY (2014) Impure altruism or inequality aversion?: An experimental investigation based on income effects. Journal of Public Economics, 118, 143-150.
Chowdhury SM, Lee D & Sheremeta RM (2013) Top guns may not fire: Best-shot group contests with group-specific public good prizes. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 92, 94-103.
Chowdhury SM, Kovenock D & Sheremeta RM (2013) An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games. Economic Theory, 52(3), 833-861.
Chowdhury SM & Sheremeta RM (2011) Multiple equilibria in Tullock contests. Economics Letters, 112(2), 216-219.
Chowdhury SM & Sheremeta RM (2011) A generalized Tullock contest. Public Choice, 147(3-4), 413-420.
Chowdhury SM & Datta D (2009) Indian Telecom: Regulation, Spectrum Allocation and Dispute Management. IIMB Management Review, 21(4), 287-287.

Chapters

Chowdhury SM & Wandschneider F (2018) Antitrust and the "Beckerian Proposition": The effects of investigation and fines on cartels In Tremblay VJ, Schroeder E & Horton Tremblay C (Ed.), Handbook of Behavioral Industrial Organization (pp. 368-403).

Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries

Chowdhury SM (2021) The Economics of Identity and Conflict. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance Oxford University Press.

Other

Caruso R & Chowdhury SM (2021) 4th Walter Isard Annual Award for the Best Article in Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 27(1), 1-2.
Balafoutas L, Chowdhury SM & Plessner H (2019) Applications of sports data to study decision making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 75, 102153-102153.
Chowdhury SM & Malueg DA (2018) INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM-CONTESTS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE. Economic Inquiry, 56(3), 1445-1446.