Rajiv Vohra
Professor and Dean of the Faculty:
Economics
Phone: +1 401 863 9525
Rajiv_Vohra@Brown.EDU
Rajiv Vohra's work in economic theory ranges widely, encompassing general equilibrium theory, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, information economics and implementation theory. His theoretical work has served as the conceptual foundation for developing policy in many areas of practical importance, from regulation of public utilities to pollution controls to the formation of cartels. His research has been regularly supported by the National Science Foundation.
Biography
Rajiv Vohra, professor and former department chair of economics at Brown University, currently serves as dean of the faculty.
A graduate of St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, Vohra earned his master's at the Delhi School of Economics in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1983. He came to Brown in 1983 as an assistant professor economics, becoming a full professor in 1989. He served as chair of the Department of Economics for four years, from 1991 to 1995.
Vohra's work in economic theory ranges widely, encompassing general equilibrium theory, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, information economics and implementation theory. His theoretical work has served as the conceptual foundation for developing policy in many areas of practical importance, from regulation of public utilities to pollution controls to the formation of cartels. His research has been regularly supported by the National Science Foundation.
Vohra has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Indian Statistical Institute and served as the Morgenstern Visiting Professor of Economic Theory at New York University. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Game Theory, the Journal of Mathematical Economics and the Journal of Public Economic Theory.
Affiliations
Econometric Society
Funded Research
National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-0133113, Cooperation and Incentives in Models with Asymmetric Information, 2002-2004.
National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-9414142, Binding Agreements, 1994-1997.
National Science Foundation Grants, No. SES-8605630 and No. SES-8646400, Theory of Resource Allocation in Nonclassical Environments, 1986-1988.
National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-8410229, Theory of Resource Allocation with Increasing Returns and Public Goods, 1984-1986.
