Dr Samarth Vaidya
Present Position:
Lecturer in Economics
Phone: +61 3 9251 7372
Email: svaidya@deakin.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood
Academic Qualifications: BSc(Hons) in Economics, Presidency College, U Calcutta MA in Economics, Delhi School of Economics, PhD UC Irvine
Commenced at Deakin: 2003
Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995
Research interests:
- Public Choice with a focus on Media Politics and Corruption
Publication Highlights
- Influencing and Efficiency in Bureaucratic Provision. forthcoming at Pacific Economic Review.
- The nature of corruption deterrence in a competitive media sector. Economics of Governance, v.7, 229-243, 2006.
- Corruption in the Media’s Gaze, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 21, Issue 3, pages 667-687, 2005.
Current research projects
- Evidence Dispersion and Media Capture with R. Gupta
- Persuasion as a Contest Joint with S. Skaperdas (UC Irvine)
Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin
- MAE201 Competition and Industry
- MAE301 Microeconomic Theory and Policy