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Dr. Ananish Chaudhuri's Home Page
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Welcome to my page. I am Professor of Experimental Economics in the Department of Economics at The University of Auckland, in the beautiful city of Auckland, in New Zealand. Here is a little bit of information about me. You can look at my Curriculum Vitae if you are interested.
In December 2008, I was awarded the University of Auckland Business School's Sustained Research Excellence Award for research performance over the preceding decade. Here is the citation for the award.
For those interested in my research, here are my published and unpublished Research Papers. You can download copies of my papers in PDF format from this page if you are interested. If you are interested in getting hold of the data for any of my papers, please send me an e-mail.
| I occasionally share my wisdom on various matters pertaining to New Zealand and the rest of the world with others on my blog The Second Groove. Please take a look and feel free to post a comment telling me what you think about the blog or my book (see below), or anything else for that matter. |
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My book Experiments in
Economics: Playing Fair with Money was published by Routledge in January 2009.
This book provides an easy to follow guide to economic experiments and specifically those that explore notions of fairness,
altruism and trust in economic transactions and how findings in the field can change the way we approach a variety of economic problems
such as pricing by firms, written contracts between parties, making voluntary contributions to charity or the provision of micro-credit
to small entrepreneurs. The book draws examples from literature, history and the real world, including issues in environmental and
development economics. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, this book should appeal to a general audience as well as undergraduates
studying experimental economics, microeconomics or game theory. The book should also be of interest to students and practitioners in
social psychology, organizational behaviour, management and other business related disciplines. The book has received
endorsements from a number of leading scholars in the area. You can buy a copy of the book
from Amazon by clicking here.
For customer reviews of the book on Amazon.com click here.
In a recent review, published in the Journal of Economic Psychology in early 2010, the author Giovanna Devetag remarks: The book is fun to read, well written, and different kinds of readers may find it useful: the professional reader can obtain a broad-brush picture of the state of the art in a very lively area of behavioral game theory, getting some idea about the most interesting controversies on the sources of human cooperation. The curious, untrained reader can learn how norm-based behavior may affect economic outcomes and the functioning of important economic institutions such as firms and markets; and, finally, the experimental economist may find this book to be both a valid didactic support when teaching an experimental course to novices (examples may include first year Economics undergraduates, master students in business schools, and students of majors other than Economics) and the perfect gift to get friends, relatives, and colleagues from other departments acquainted with her/his field of research. The most important merit of the book is definitely the author’s attempt at making experimental research (and its many interesting implications) available to a more general public, which is essential, I believe, in filling the gap between academics within the social sciences and society at large. Click here for the full review. |
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I am currently the Editor of the New Zealand Economic Papers which is published by the leading publishing house Taylor and Francis on behalf of the New Zealand Association of Economists. Please go to the journal's website for information about the journal's aims and scopes and about how to submit a paper to the journal. The NZEP is a fully peer-reviewed, high quality, internationally recognized general interest journal that welcomes papers in all areas of economics. |
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I am an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Psychology, which is a leading journal in the area of economic psychology and experimental and behavioural economics. The Journal of Economic Psychology has an impact factor of 0.9 and is ranked 65th out of 191 journals in Economics and 42nd out of 102 journals in Psychology (multi-disciplinary) according to the 2007 ISI-Web of Science Journal Citation Reports. |
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I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Socio-Economics, which is a high quality scholarly journal published by Elsevier. |
I organized the First Summer Workshop in Experimental Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Auckland Business School on January 16 and 17, 2008. The workshop featured Professor Andrew Schotter of New York University as the keynote speaker and had presenters from different universities in New Zealand and Australia. For more information on this workshop please go to the webpage for the workshop.
I maintain a popular page on Experimental Economics in case you are interested in finding out what experimental economics is all about.
I have been sucessful in my class-room teaching enjoying high student evaluation ratings. You can take a look at my Teaching Evaluations from past semesters if you are curious.
Here is a link to my daughter Ishannita's Page.
The really big news of 2008, and the bigger accomplishment, of course, is the birth of our second daughter ANANRITA. Indira gave birth to Ana on August 1, 2008 at 11:01 PM. Here is a link to Ananrita's page.
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a.chaudhuri@auckland.ac.nz
Last updated on January 22, 2010.