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Samarth Vaidya

Dr Samarth Vaidya

Senior Lecturer in Economics

BSc(Hons) in Economics, Presidency College, U Calcutta MA in Economics, Delhi School of Economics, PhD UC Irvine

Tel: +61 3 9251 7372

Email: samarth.vaidya@deakin.edu.au
Office location: Melbourne Campus at Burwood
Commenced at Deakin: 2003
Teaching Interests/
units taught at Deakin		 MAE201 Competition and Industry
MAE301 Microeconomic Theory and Policy
Research interests Public Choice with a focus on Media Politics and Corruption
Link to Research Output
Publication Highlights
  • Influencing the Public and Efficiency in Bureaucratic Provision, Pacific Economic Review, volume 14, issue 2, 2009, pages 259-274.
  • 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)