Welcome to the Home Page of
Pankaj Tandon

How to reach me:

Boston University Department of Economics
270 Bay State Road, Room 526
Boston, MA 02215

Telephone: (617) 353-3089
Fax: (617) 353-4449
e-mail: ptandon@bu.edu

My Office Hours (Fall 2009):
 Mon 9-10:30, Wed 8-9:30
For appointments at other times, please e-mail me


COURSE INFORMATION:

          EC 501, Fall 2009



SOME BACKGROUND:

          Ph.D., Harvard University. Thesis: Aspects of Optimal R&D Policy.

RESEARCH FIELDS:

·         Numismatics, Technological Change, Microeconomic Theory, Public Enterprise, Economic Development

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

·         BOOKS

·         The Welfare Consequences of Selling Public Enterprises (with A. Galal, L. P. Jones, and I. Vogelsang), Oxford University Press, 1994.

·         Selling Public Enterprises: A Cost-Benefit Methodology (with L. P. Jones and I. Vogelsang), MIT Press, 1990.

·         ARTICLES

·         "Efficiency of Privatised Firms: Evidence and Implications," Economic and Political Weekly, December 1997.

·         "Divestiture and Deregulation: The Case of Mexico's Airlines," in Ravi Ramamurti (ed.): Privatizing Monopolies, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996.

·         "Welfare Effects of Privatization: Some Evidence from Mexico," Boston University International Law Journal, Fall 1995.

·         "A Note on Optimal Pricing of Publicly Produced Intermediate Inputs," Atlantic Economic Journal, September 1989.

·         "Innovation, Market Structure and Welfare," American Economic Review, June 1984.

·         "Rivalry and the Excessive Allocation of Resources to Research," Bell Journal of Economics, Spring 1983.

·         "Optimal Patents with Compulsory Licensing," Journal of Political Economy, June 1982.


MY NUMISMATIC WEBSITE:

          



MY NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS:

·         An Important New Copper Coin of Gadahara, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 200 (Summer 2009), p. 17-20.

·         Pracandendra, not Pracatunde: An Improved Reading of Some Coins of the Yashaaditya Series, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 197 (Autumn 2008), p. 30.

·         More Early Medieval Portrait Coins of the Yashaaditya Series, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 195 (Spring 2008), pp. 17-23.

·         Some Unlisted Coins of the Bengal Presidency, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 194 (Winter 2008), pp. 37-38.

·         Some Magadha Series I overstrikes from Sasaram, Numismatic Digest, Volume 31 (2007), pp. 17-45.

·         A Gold Coin of the Pala king Dharmapala, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 166, 2006, pp. 327-333.

·         New Light on the Paratarajas, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 166, 2006, pp. 173-209.

·         "Suktimati: A New Coin and History of the City-State," (with Prashant P. Kulkarni), Indian Coin Society Newsletter , No. 32, April 2004.

·         "Some New Coin Types of the Kushan King Kanishka II," Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter, No. 172, Summer 2002.


MY FAMILY:




                            With my wife, Karen Clark, and daughters Xandra, Olivia and Lily.



Last update: August 2009


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