Professor Swapnendu Banerjee

Professor Swapnendu Banerjee was the Subir Chowdhury Fellow 2015-16 at the LSE Asia Research Centre.

Swapnendu Banerjee is Professor at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His areas of interest are Microeconomic Theory, Applied Game Theory, Economics of Contracts and issues around Quality Innovation. Professor Banerjee completed his PhD at Jadavpur University and subsequently did his Postdoctoral Research at the National University of Singapore (2004-2005). He was also a Ford Foundation Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Professor Banerjee has given invited lectures at universities including Cornell, National University of Singapore, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi School of Economics, IIM Kolkata and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research amongst others. 

At LSE Professor Banerjee revisited the relationship between trade liberalisation and product quality innovation both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. His empirical portion focussed on India and Bangladesh.

Research Interests

• Economics of contracts
• Microeconomic theory and game theory
• Industrial organisation theory
• Quality innovation and trade liberalisation
• Economics of institutions, markets and organisations

Selected Publications

• Banerjee, S. and Pramanick, A. (Forthcoming). Optimal Organization of Surrogacy Contracts and Underinvestment. Journal of Quantitative Economics.
• Banerjee, S. and Sarkar, M. (Forthcoming). Other Regarding Principal and Moral Hazard: The Single Agent Case. International Journal of Economic Theory.
• Banerjee, S., Halder, S. and Mukherjee, V. (eds.) (2015). Understanding Development: An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy. Springer, New Delhi.
• Banerjee, S. and Pramanick, A. (2015) Surrogacy Contracting with Intermediation. In Banerjee, S., Halder, S. and Mukherjee, V. (eds.) Understanding Development: An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy. Springer, New Delhi. 
• Banerjee, S. and Dey, O. (2014). Status Incentives with Discrete Effort: A Note. Economics Bulletin, 34(2): 1205-1213.
• Banerjee, S. (2013). Gestational Surrogacy Contracts: Commercial or Altruistic? A Contract Theoretic Approach. The Manchester School, 81(3): 438–460.
• Banerjee, S. (2013). Innovation Complementarity in a Vertically Differentiated Monopoly: A Note.  Indian Economic Review,XLVIII(2): 263-274.
• Banerjee, S. and Acharyya, R. (2012). On Tariff and Quality Innovation in a Market with Discrete Preferences. Economic Modelling, 29(3): 917-925.
• Banerjee, S. and Basu, S. (2009). Rent a Womb: Surrogate Selection, Investment Incentives and Contracting. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 69(3): 260-273.
• Banerjee, S. and Kabiraj, T. (2008). Optimal Patent Length in a North-South Framework: A Comment. Singapore Economic Review,56(1): 51-59.
• Banerjee, S. and Acharyya, R. (2006). Does Input Sector Liberalization Promote Quality Innovation and Exports?International Review of Economics and Finance,  15(4): 443-462.
• Banerjee, S. and Acharyya, R. (2004). Process and Product Innovation: Complementarity in a Vertically Differentiated Monopoly with Discrete Consumer Types. Japanese Economic Review, 55(2): 175-200.