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Innovators in auction theory
1 Jan 2022 11:15 PM ISTApart from using game theory to design alternative auction formats, Paul Robert Milgrom and Robert Butler Wilson carried out influential works in...
Festivities over faith
26 Dec 2021 12:30 AM ISTGiven Kolkata’s diversity of religions and cultures, Christmas celebrations are not just restricted to Christians. Non-Christians, in thousands,...
Pacesetters in macroeconomics
18 Dec 2021 10:56 PM ISTWhile William Dawbney Nordhaus incorporated climate change in economic models and emphasised on cooperative multinational policies for tackling the...
The Nobel Series: Exponent of behavioural economics
11 Dec 2021 9:27 PM ISTRichard H Thaler developed Herbert Simon’s concept of bounded rationality to recognise cognitive biases in decision making, apart from assessing the...
Past masters of contract theory
5 Dec 2021 12:10 AM ISTWhile Oliver D’Arcy Hart is best-known for his work on incomplete contracts and allocation of residual rights, Bengt Robert Holmström worked on design...
The welfarist academician
27 Nov 2021 11:46 PM ISTAngus Deaton is known for extensively analysing data around individual consumer choices, and linking it with aggregate consumption, to shape policies...
Proponent of industrial organisation
21 Nov 2021 12:16 AM ISTBuilding upon the concepts regulating monopolies and oligopolies, Jean Tirole used game theory and industrial organisation to present a general theory...
Exponents of asset pricing
14 Nov 2021 12:23 AM ISTWhile Eugene Francis Fama attributed the difficulty in short-run predictions to efficient markets and Robert James Shiller contradicted him by holding...
The matchmakers
6 Nov 2021 10:24 PM ISTWhile the prolific game theorist Lloyd Stowell Shapley laid out the theoretical ground in the form of Gale-Shapley algorithm, Alvin Elliot Roth...
Cause-effect relations
30 Oct 2021 11:32 PM ISTAnalysing the effects of external shocks on macroeconomy, Thomas John Sargent factored in rational expectations and their impact, while Christopher...
Innovators of search market
24 Oct 2021 1:03 AM ISTDiamond, Mortensen and Pissarides formulated a theoretical framework for search markets in which buyers and sellers do not always make contact with...
The Nobel Series: Alternative economic governance
16 Oct 2021 11:57 PM ISTWhile Elinor Ostrom dealt with overcoming collective action dilemmas in managing natural resources, Oliver Eaton Williamson is well-known for building...
The Great Growth Mirage
5 July 2025 11:30 PM ISTPrada’s Sandal Scandal
5 July 2025 11:26 PM ISTCooperatives: The New Face of Rural India
5 July 2025 11:23 PM ISTA Solution in Plain Sight
5 July 2025 11:20 PM ISTEchoes of Melody & Melancholy
5 July 2025 11:19 PM IST
Returning to 'Kyunki...' not just a step back in a role but to a story...
8 July 2025 7:11 PM ISTAmbedkar wanted judiciary to be free from executive interference: CJI...
8 July 2025 6:43 PM ISTEPFO to complete process of crediting interest into members' account...
8 July 2025 6:41 PM ISTTwo CRPF personnel injured in IED blast in Chhattisgarh
8 July 2025 6:40 PM ISTJNU Students' Union urges faculty to join hunger strike in support of...
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