Biography
Dr Samarth Vaidya is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. Samarth has over 10 years of experience in teaching subjects involving microeconomic analysis.
His research fields are the political economy and public choice and do theoretical research on topics such as corruption, media and governance and persuasion and lobbying using applied game theory.
Read more on Samarth's profileResearch interests
- Applied Microeconomic Theory
- Political Economy
- Public Choice
Teaching interests
- Microeconomic Analysis
- Political Economics
- Public Choice
Units taught
- MAE201 - Competition and Industry
- MAE403 - Advanced Issues in Economics
Professional activities
Projects
- Joint projects on corruption, tax evasion and media slant with D. Banerjee
- Joint projects on persuasion contests and lobbying with S. Skaperdas
Publications
Why did pre-modern states adopt Big-God religions?
S Skaperdas, S Vaidya
(2020), Vol. 182, pp. 373-394, Public choice, New York, N.Y., C1
Contested Political Persuasion
Samarth Vaidya, Stergios Skaperdas
(2019), Vol. 1, pp. 651-651, Oxford Handbook of Public Choice - Volume 1, New York, N.Y., B1
Anticorruption reforms, tax evasion, and the role of harassment
D Banerjee, S Vaidya
(2019), Vol. 21, pp. 62-80, Journal of public economic theory, Chichester, Eng., C1
Corruption via media capture : the effect of competition
S Vaidya, R Gupta
(2016), Vol. 82, pp. 1327-1348, Southern economic journal, Hoboken, N.J., C1
Difference-form persuasion contests
S Skaperdas, A Toukan, S Vaidya
(2016), Vol. 18, pp. 882-909, Journal of public economic theory, Chichester, Eng., C1
Contest functions : theoretical foundations and issues in estimation
H Jia, S Skaperdas, S Vaidya
(2013), International journal of industrial organization, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
S Skaperdas, S Vaidya
(2012), Vol. 51, pp. 465-486, Economic theory, Berlin , Germany, C1
Influencing the public and efficiency in bureaucratic provision
S Vaidya
(2009), Vol. 14, pp. 259-274, Pacific economic review, Oxford, England, C1
The nature of corruption deterrence in a competitive media sector
S Vaidya
(2006), Vol. 7, pp. 229-243, Economics of governance, Berlin, Germany, C1
Corruption in the media's gaze
S Vaidya
(2005), Vol. 21, pp. 667-687, European journal of political economy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Mohammad Shihab Khan
Thesis entitled: Electoral Behaviour in Bangladesh:1991-2008
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics