Sandeep Kapur

Research Interests

• Financial Intermediation
• Regulation
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Economics of E-Commerce
• Pensions

Recent Research

See homepage for details and other downloadable research, incl working papers

• Regulatory Missions: Targets vs Budgets
  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2009 (with Heyes)
• Persistent Gaps and Default Traps,
  Journal of Development Economics, 2009, (with Catão & Fostel)
• Internationalization of Firms from China and India: Trends, Motivations and Strategy, 
  Industrial and Corporate Change, 2009, (with Athreye)
• An Economic Model of Whistleblower Policy, 
  Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2009, (with  Heyes)
• Industrial Concentration in a Liberalising Economy,
  Journal of Development Studies, 2006, (with Athreye)
• Missing Link: Volatility and the Debt Intolerance Paradox,
  IMF Staff Papers, 2006 (with Catao)
• Relative Performance Evaluation Contracts and Asset Market Equilibrium,
  Economic Journal, 2005 (with  Timmermann)

Selected Earlier Papers: See homepage for details

• The Management of Digital Rights in Pay TV, 2006, (with Cowie).
• Default and Efficient Debt Markets,
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2002, (with Dutta)
• Developing Countries in the New Economy: the role of demand-side initiatives, 2001, WIDER paper
• Pricing on the Internet,
  Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2001, (with Daripa)
• A Two-Location Inventory Model with Transshipment,
  Management Science, 2001 (with Rudi & Pyke)
• Private Foreign Investment in India: pain or panacea,
  The World Economy, 2001 (with Athreye)
• A portfolio approach to the optimal funding of pensions,
  Economics Letters, 2000 (with Dutta & Orszag)
• Foreign-Controlled Manufacturing Firms in India: Long-Term Trends,
  EPW, 1999, (with Athreye)
• Liquidity preference and financial intermediation,
  Review of Economic Studies, 1998 (with Dutta)
• Technological Diffusion with Social Learning,
  Journal of Industrial Economics, 1995
• Markov-Perfect Equilibria in a N-Player War of Attrition,
  Economics Letters, 1995
• Late-Mover Advantage and Product Diffusion,
  Economics Letters, 1993.

Teaching Material

• Quantitative Techniques for MSc Economics
• Banking and Regulation (MSc for Economics)

CV

Education
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
BA (Econ), Delhi University

Professional Experience
Reader in Financial Economics, Birkbeck, University of London
Programme Director, Executive Education, School of Economics, Birkbeck
Founder Director, Postgraduate Programmes in E-commerce, 1999-2008
Visiting Associate Professor, George Washington University, 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, UPenn, 1996
Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1991-92
Consultant, United Nations, 2001-02