Vivek Bhattacharya

Professor Bhattacharya specializes in industrial organization, with a focus on merger analysis, auction design and procurement, and the regulation of financial markets. His research examines the effects of mergers and the reliability of merger-simulation methods; the effects of auction design on buyers and sellers, including how contingent payments in oil and gas lease auctions affect bidding and drilling outcomes; and how contractual and regulatory frameworks shape entry, competition, and consumer choice in markets for retirement and other consumer financial products. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Theory, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the RAND Journal of Economics. He serves on the board of editors of the Journal of Economic Literature and is an associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and of the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania.