Dr Anindya Bhattacharya
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

• BSc(Calcutta)
• PhD(Indian Statistical Institute)

I studied in the University of Calcutta and the Indian Statistical Institute. Before joining York I was a CNRS postdoctoral fellow in GEMMA, Universite de Caen and a CORE fellow in CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain.

Departmental roles

• Visiting and exchange students Co-ordinator

Research

Overview

My research interest is in game theory (especially in games with group play), political economy (some microeconomic aspects) and some issues of microeconomics of developing countries.

Publications

Selected publications

Selected publications

Some further details of publications can be found at RePEc

"On mechanism design with expressive preferences: an aspect of the social choice of Brexit" (with Debapriya Sen). (2026). Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics.

"A look back at the core of games in characteristic function form: some new axiomatization results". (2025). Mathematical Social Sciences. Vol. 138. Article: 102447.

“How sensitive are the results in voting theory when just one other voter joins in? Some instances with spatial majority voting” (with Francesco Ciardiello). (2024). Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 09/34, University of York. 

 "Asymmetric networks, clientelism and their impacts: households' access to workfare employment in rural India" (with Anirban Kar and Alita Nandi). (2021).  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.04236.pdf

"Labour policy and multinational firms: the “race to the bottom” revisited" (with Debapriya Sen). (2021). Review of Development Economics, 25: 1515-1537.

"Patronage and power in rural India: a study based on interaction networks" (with Anirban Kar, Sunil Kumar and Alita Nandi).  (2019). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.05002

"Stable and Efficient Networks with Farsighted Players: the Largest Consistent Set''. (2009). Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 09/34, University of York. 

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Advanced Microeconomics
• Information, Strategy and Institutions
• Microeconomics for Research
• Topics in Development Economics