VIMAL KUMAR

CURRENT PROFILE
+91 9532093988 vk@iitk.ac.in http://vimalk.googlepages.com Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Assistant Professor of Economics. June 2009-Present Working Area: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Economic Growth and Development

PAST EXPERIENCE

Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Economist, Global Research Services, Delhi. Working Area: Pension Economics, Financial Economics

August 2008-May 2009

EDUCATION
University of California at Irvine. Ph.D. Candidate in Department of Economics. September 2003 June 2008
Dissertation Title: On the Dynamics of Property Rights Fields of Interest: Economics of Conflict, Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics, Political Developed a model using dynamic optimization to analyze the evolution of property rights in Developed and empirically tested a game theoretic model to analyze Presidential positive Developed an endogenous growth model to study the Product Life Cycle and its impact on

Economics, Economic Growth and Development, Game Theory relatively lawless economies. power in U.S. Congress. wage inequality.

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Bachelor in Technology & Master in Technology in Mechanical Engineering August 1998 July 2003
Designed and fabricated a low-cost novel refrigerating system for the use at small-scale textile

production units.

PAPERS Production, Appropriation and the Dynamic Emergence of Property Rights (Job Market

Designed and fabricated a low-cost solar drier to cater the need of rural farmers.

Paper) Growth and Inequality in Closed Economy: The Role of the Product Cycle. On the Economics of Organized Crime (With Stergios Skaperdas). Forthcoming in Nuno Garoupa edited Criminal Law and Economics (Handbook). Practicing Presidential Leadership: A Model of Presidents' Positive Power in U.S. Lawmaking (with Matthew Beckmann) (Under Review in Journal of Theoretical Politics). Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in U.S. Senate, 1953-2006 (with Matthew Beckmann) Continuous Product Cycle and International Trade [Working Paper] Growth and The Endogenous Emergence of Governance in The Shadow of Conflict. [Working Paper]

TEACHING/WORK EXPERIENCE

University of California Irvine, USA. Instructor Summer 2006 Designed and taught a course in the elements of money and banking to upper-division undergraduates.

Teaching Assistant September 2004 March 2008 For courses in Probability & Statistics, Money & Banking, Investment, Intermediate Microeconomics, and Managerial Accounting. Taught classes, lead discussions, provided out-of-class student support and graded exams. Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, India Intern Summer 2001 Numerical Simulation of Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) in Advance Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR).

CONFERENCES

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Peer Reviewed Paper Presentations at Conferences Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Social Choice and Behavioral Sciences (May 26, 2006), sponsored by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California Irvine. Democracy and its Development, The Fourth Annual CSD Graduate Student Conference (2007-08), Organized by The Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of California, Irvine. The Fourth Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development(December 1718, 2008), Organized by Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. [International Conference] International Workshops. Invited participation at European Science Days 2005 in Steyr, Austria. Invited participation at the Workshop on New Techniques in Applied Economic Research on December 15-17, 2008, organized by The Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave.
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WORKSHOPS

AWARDS

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University of California at Irvine, USA. Social Science Merit Fellowship 2003-08: $40,000/year. Social Science Summer Fellowship: 2004($5000), 2006($3000), 2007($5000). Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Science: 2004($750), 2007($500). Center for the Study of Democracy Research Grant, 2005($2000). CGPACS-Graduate Student Grant 2007-08: ($1500). Misc. Recipient of the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE Scholarship 1995, awarded each year to 750 class 10 students from all over India. 3rd Place in All India School Quiz 93-94, organized by the Public School Association of India.

HONORS

LEADERSHIP University of California, Irvine. Founding member of Interdisciplinary Study group on Political Economy. Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay. As one of 20 Core Group Members of Mood Indigo 2001, raised over $100,000 and led a team of 200 people in organizing India's largest student event.

As Core Group Member (Finance) of Mood Indigo 2002 oversaw catering and hospitality groups. Led both groups to profitability for the first time in the events 25 year long history.

Hostel 2, IIT Bombay. Presided over the convention to frame the hostel constitution. Conducted Hostel Elections. Got special recognition for voluntary services to Hostel.

MATHEMATICAL & ECONOMIC EXPERTISE.

Dynamic Programming, Optimal Control, and Calculus of Variation. Game Theory, Differential Games, and Strategy. Analytical and Numerical Techniques in Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Various Econometrics Estimation methods including ANOVA & Parametric Analysis, Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation.

TECHNICAL TOOLS
MATLAB, MAPLE, STATA. LATEX, Microsoft Office. C/C++, Fortran 90.