Sarvesh
Bandhu
Dr. Sarvesh Bandhu is an Assistant Professor in the Economics area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). He has received his doctoral degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He did his Masters in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics and Bachelors from Shri Ram College of Commerce at the University of Delhi. His primary research interest lies broadly in theoretical and applied microeconomics and particularly in game theory, behavioral economics, political economy and mechanism design.
In his thesis, he analysed voting mechanisms using different behavioral approaches instead of the standard rationality assumptions in social choice theory. Before joining IIM-Bangalore, he had taught at various premier institutes like Ashoka University, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute and Shri Ram College of Commerce.
Research Interests: Game theory, behavioral economics, political economy and mechanism design.
Published Papers:
- Sarvesh Bandhu and Rohit Kumar. "A characterization of unanimity with status quo: Fixed vs variable population." Economics Letters (2024).
- Sarvesh Bandhu, Abhinaba Lahiri, and Anup Pramanik. "Stochastic same-sidedness in the random voting model." Social Choice and Welfare (2023).
- Sarvesh Bandhu, and Ratul Lahkar. "Survival of altruistic preferences in a large population public goods game". Economics Letters (2023).
- Sarvesh Bandhu, and Ratul Lahkar. "Evolutionary robustness of dominant strategy implementation." Economic Theory (2022)
- Sarvesh Bandhu, Bishwajyoti Mondal, and Anup Pramanik. "Strategy-proofness of the unanimity with status-quo rule over restricted domains." Economics Letters (2021)
- Sarvesh Bandhu, Abhinaba Lahiri, and Anup Pramanik. "A characterization of status quo rules in the binary social choice model." Economics Letters (2020): 109154.
Working Papers:
- A Large Population Approach to Implementing Efficiency with Minimum Inequality" April 2022. (with Ratul Lahkar)
- "Digital Transformation, Risky Investments and Hosting Platform Rivals" Sep 2022. (with Shiva Shekhar and Marshall W. Van Alstyne)
- Voting with Lying Costs: A behavioral Approach to Overcome Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem (Jan 2021)
- Random Strategy-Proof Voting with Lexicographic Extension (Jan 2021)
- Ph.D., Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre.
- M.A. Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
- B.Com.(Hons.), Sri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.