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Kislaya Prasad |
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4467 Van Munching Hall Robert H. Smith School of Business |
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University of Maryland |
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College Park, MD 20742 |
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Phone: (301) 405-9637 |
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Email: kprasad at umd.edu |
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Research Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park.
Guest
Scholar, Center for Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution,
Washington D.C.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Professor of Economics, Florida State University (2004-2006); Associate Professor (1993-2004), Assistant Professor (1988-1993).
Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC (2002-2003).
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics
(1999-2000) and Robert H. Smith School of Business (2003-2004),
University of Maryland at College Park.
Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, New York University (Fall 1994).
Visiting Scholar, MEDS Department, Northwestern University (Spring 1995).
Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1991-1992.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1988.
M.S. Computer Science, Syracuse University, 1988.
M.A. Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse
University, 1986.
B.A. Economics, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, 1982.
RECENT Publications:
The Rationality/Computability Trade-off in Finite Games, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
Social Interactions and the ‘Digital Divide’: Explaining Regional Variations in Internet Use, Information Systems Research, forthcoming (with Ritu Agarwal and Animesh Singh)
Price Asymptotics, Review of Economic Design, forthcoming.
The Diffusion of a Medical Innovation: Is Success in the Stars? Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 73 (3), 2007. (With Mary A. Burke and Gary M. Fournier).
The Emergence of Local Norms in Networks, Complexity, 11 (5), 2006. (With Mary A. Burke and Gary M. Fournier).
Imitation and Long Run Outcomes,
Topics in Theoretical Economics, Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 7, 2004. (With Jayasri Dutta).
Observation, Measurement and Computation in Finite Games, International Journal of Game Theory, 32 (4), 2004, 455-470.
Non-robustness of Some Economic Models, Topics in Theoretical Economics, Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 1, 2003, 1-7.
Stable Risk Sharing, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 38, 2002, 411 – 439, (with Jayasri Dutta).
An
Evolutionary Model of Debt, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002, 49, 1407
- 1438 (with Mary Burke).
RECENT WORKING PAPERS:
Self-Selection and Market Power in Risk-Sharing Contracts (with Tim Salmon)
Relative Wealth Concerns and Entrepreneurship (with Manoj Atolia)
Egoboo
Physician Social Networks and Regional Variation in Medical Practice (with Gary Fournier and Mary Burke)
Contracts with Social Multipliers (with Mary Burke)
The
Difficulty with Deliberation: Computational Complexity and Choice under
Uncertainty
RECENT GRANTS: