Sumit Sarkar

Experience Detail

• Full Professor, XLRI, from January 2019
• Associate Professor, XLRI, from August 2009 to December 2018
• Assistant Professor, XLRI, from June 2007 to July 2009
• Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, India, from June 2006 to June 2007.
• Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode, India from June 2004 to June 2006.
• Sr. Lecturer, Centre for Economics and Management Sciences in the Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon,India, from August 2001 to June 2004. (London School of Economics External Program).

Area of RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Applied Game Theory (specifically Contract theory)
• Experimental and Behavioural Economics
• Behavioural Operations
• Industrial Organization and Network Economics
• Sports Economics and Performance Analysis in Sports

## Journal Articles-Refereed

1. Bose, A. S., & Sarkar, S. (2019). Indias e-Reverse Auctions (2017-2018) for Allocating Renewable Energy Capacity: An Evaluation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 112, 762-774. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2019.06.025

2. Sarkar, S. (2019). Gratitude, conscience, and reciprocity: models of supplier motivation when quality is non-contractible. European Journal of Operational Research 277(2), 633-642. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.02.047

3. Sarkar, S. & Bose, A. S. (2019). Gift-selection for close recipients: how perceived similarity of preferences affect givers attitude. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 36(1), 24-32. DOI: 10.1108/JCM-12-2017-2473

4. Mitra, A., Sarkar, S. & Vijayaraghavan, T. A. S. (2019). How cooperative is cooperative investment? Supply chain contracting in presence of epistemic quality uncertainty, International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, 10(1), 46-64. DOI: 10.4018/IJSDS.2019010104

5. Sarkar, S. & Chakraborty, S. (2019). Stakeholder fairness under an induced veil of ignorance: findings from a laboratory experiment. International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, 10(1), 65-81. DOI: 10.4018/IJSDS.2019010105

6. Sarkar, S. & Bharathkumar, S. R. (2018). Incorporating a no claim bonus in insurance agency contract. Managerial and Decision Economics, 39(6), 682-689. DOI: 10.1002/mde.2959

7. Sarkar, S. & Bose, A. S. (2018). Partially altruistic choice in presence of consensus bias. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 16(3), 853-861. DOI: 10.1007/s40953-018-0117-8.

8. Sarkar, S. (2018). Paradox of crosses in association football (soccer) a game-theoretic explanation. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 14(1), 25-36. DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2017-0073

9. Sarkar, S. & Chakraborty, S. (2018). Pitch actions that distinguish high scoring teams - Findings from five European football leagues in 2015-16. Journal of Sports Analytics, 4(1), 1-14. DOI: 10.3233/JSA-16161

10. Sarkar, S. (2012). Strategic R&D in systems industry: a network externality-based theory. International Journal of Management and Network Economics, 2(3), 236-256. DOI: 10.1504/IJMNE.2012.048513

11. Mittal, M. and Sarkar, S. (2011). Multihoming behavior of users in social networking web sites: a theoretical model. Information Technology and People, 24(4), 378-392. DOI: 10.1108/09593841111182250

12. Sarkar, S. (2005). Patent licensing by a standard auction in presence of network externality. The Manchester School, 73(2), 228-245. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2005.00443.x

13. Sarkar, S. (2005). On vertical differentiation, network externality and compatibility decisions: existence of incompatible networks an example. Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Sciences, 1(2)

Visiting Faculty

• IIM Indore during the academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11
• IIM Ranchi during the academic year 2013-14 and 2018-19
• IMT Ghaziabad during the academic year 2016-17
• National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT), Nagpur, during the season 2016-17, for the 69th batch of Indian Revenue Services (IRS).