The intro chapter to our Sudipta Sarangi special issue of economic modelling is free access for limited time. We provide a thorough review of link between crises and corruption, and insights from some of the experts. authors.elsevier.com/c/1j5a6yGFsagEK

Hector Tzavellas has been named the Hans H. Haller Faculty Fellow in Economics by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. Learn more about the fellowship and Hector here: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

New working paper w/ Ben Smith on measuring bias when students peer grade each other. Our results indicate a significant bias against female students, matching past work on bias in teaching evaluations. It contrasts some studies on peer grading. ➡️ papers.ssrn.com/abstract=48588…

I will be presenting our paper with Matthew Jackson Hector Tzavellas & Promit Kanti Chaudhuri at IIM Ahmedabad’s NSE Centre for Behavioral Science hosted by the gracious Pritha Dev. We introduce a framework for Bayesian game a la Harsanyi with arbitrary type spaces & how incomplete info matters for strategic behav

Sergio Barrera (Sergio E Barrera) and co-authors discuss four ideas from the education literature in STEM fields in a recent article from the Journal of Economic Perspectives (AEA Journals): aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Had a great time attending the JET SET’24 at Virginia Tech. Met a number of wonderful people and learnt a lot about the new innovative ways to teach. Planning to integrate some of them, next time I teach. Thank you Jadrian Wooten for organizing this. Virginia Tech Economics Virginia Tech Science #JETSET24

Red Salute to Comrade #SitaramYechury!

Sitaram Yechury was a delightful human being with a wonderful sense of humor. He had a great ability to listen to other points of view, even though he was fiercely devoted to the communist ideology, says Jairam Ramesh, Cong MP #SitaramYechury #CPM #NewsToday | Rajdeep Sardesai

My piece on the Econ Nobel Prize in The Indian Express : State dependent institutions… Virginia Tech Economics Virginia Tech Science Kevin Pitts

An experiment on RUMORS in NETWORKS. We find even for messages with no emotional or political content (Heads or Tail), people like to: 1. Overshare 2. Care about who they are sharing with. People are good at using the network as filter. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #econtwitter

Looking forward to hosting this event with several senior scholars and budding economists from around the world.

Looking forward Virginia Tech Economics welcomes you all …

Wrapping up the past few days of presentations with great food and even better company! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Midwest International Trade & Theory Conference at Virginia Tech.

Thrilled to share my first publication in PhD in #JDS, with Anubhab Gupta, Heng Zhu and Cristobal Mingo! #EconTwitter We evaluate the impact of a financial literacy training for #refugee youth in Uganda, leveraging the program's staggered rollout: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🧵 (1/n)

Lovely rendering of Tagore’s song with allusion to Radha & Krishna. This was one of Vivekananda’s favorite songs. Sung beautifully by Bangladesh’s Rejoyana Choudhury, it’s a tribute to the kind of syncretic culture the world needs. youtu.be/sTZjZhHrxqA?si… via YouTube

Looking forward to speaking on “Democracy, Authoritarianism and Collective Moral Responsibility” at the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics & Economics, on Wednesday.

Had the privilege to meet Dr. Kaushik Basu (Kaushik Basu ) and attend his talk on “Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Collective Moral Responsibility”. Enlightening and thought provoking. Sudipta Sarangi Nandini Das Virginia Tech Economics

Swami Vivekananda: “What a queer thing religious bigotry is; it makes a mess of truth and untruth.” “Kick out the priests who are always against progress...They are the offspring of centuries of superstition.”

We're excited to announce our 2025 Teaching Award Winners! Congrats to each of them for their outstanding contributions to our department!