Economics of Asymmetric Information is an edited volume out of selected papers presented in one of the technical sessions of the 85th Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Thiruvananthapuram. It contains altogether 17 papers presented in 5 groups. These groups and the respective authors are: Institutional Implications of Asymmetric Information Theories (U. Sankar, Nirmal Sengupta, T.V.S. Ramamohan Rao, T. Lakshmanaswamy), General Positive or Normative Issues, General Macro-economic Issues, Issues Relating to Banking and Financial Sectors, and Other Important Sectoral Applications. It also contains an Editorial Introduction by Dilip M. Nachane and Biswajit Chatterjee and Forword by Raj Kumar Sen. This book is expected to be an important addition to the growing literature on information related problems in economics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Biswajit Chatterjee
Biswajit Chatterjee is Professor, Department of Economics, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is also a Vice-Presidient of the indian Society of Labour Economics, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Indian Econometric Society, and an Editor of The Indian Economci Journals. His other books inlcude Indian Economy: Agenda for the 21st Century (2002), In Search of District Development Index (2002) and Towards the District Development Report for West Bengal (2003). He has also published numerous articles in professional journals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dilip M. Nachane
Dr. Dilip M. Nachane is Senior Professor of Economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and was the Chairman of the Technical Session on "Economics of Asymmetric Information" held at IEA 85th Conference, Thiruvananthapuram.
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