Prof Lata Gangadharan - Researcher Profile

Lata Gangadharan

Address

Department of Economics
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 52345

Email: Lata.Gangadharan@monash.edu


Biography

Lata Gangadharan is a Professor in the Department of Economics.

Lata obtained her PhD in 1998 from the University of Southern California. She is an experimental economist and her research encompasses experiments in markets and auction design, and experiments on social preferences.

Her research in the area of environmental economics has direct relevance to formulating policies for improving environmental quality locally as well as globally. She has designed experiments to understand attitudes towards corruption, design appropriate institutions for credit provision in developing countries and measure trust and trustworthiness between individuals in economic transactions.

She has published extensively in reputed journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management among others. She is currently an associate editor for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (the journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) and Agricultural Economics (the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists).

Lata’s research interests include experimental economics, environmental economics, institutions and development.

Keywords

Economic Experiments, Environment and Sustainability, Social Preferences, Development

Qualifications

PHD (ECONOMICS)
Institution: University of Southern California USA
Year awarded: 1998
MA (ECONOMICS)
Institution: Delhi School of Economics INDIA
Year awarded: 1992
BA (HONS)
Institution: University of Delhi INDIA
Year awarded: 1990

Publications

Books

Wong, T., Ross, A., Beringer, J., Deletic, A., Fletcher, T., Gangadharan, L., Gernjak, W., Jakob, C., O'Loan, T., Reeder, M., Tapper, N., walsh, c., 2012, Stormwater Management in a Water Sensitive City: Blueprint 2012, The Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Australia.

Book Chapters

Cameron, L., Gangadharan, L., Ashok, S., 2010, Kuznets curve, in Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics, eds Mark Blaug and Peter Lloyd, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK, pp. 439-446.

Duke, C., Gangadharan, L., Cason, T., 2008, A test bed experiment for water and salinity rights trading in irrigation regions of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia, in Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods, eds Todd L Cherry, Stephen Kroll and Jason F Shogren, Routledge, Oxon, UK, pp. 77-99.

Journal Articles

Lefebvre, M., Gangadharan, L., Thoyer, S., 2012, Do security-differentiated water rights improve the performance of water markets?, American Journal of Agricultural Economics [P], vol 94, issue 5, Oxford University Press, Cary NC USA, pp. 1113-1135.

Friesen, L., Gangadharan, L., 2012, Individual level evidence of dishonesty and the gender effect, Economics Letters [P], vol 117, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 624-626.

Cason, T., Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., 2012, Moral hazard and peer monitoring in a laboratory microfinance experiment, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization [P], vol 82, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 192-209.

Burfurd, I., Gangadharan, L., Nemes, V., 2012, Stars and standards: Energy efficiency in rental markets, Journal Of Environmental Economics And Management [P], vol 64, issue 2, Academic Press, Maryland Heights USA, pp. 153-168.

Cason, T., Gangadharan, L., Nikiforakis, N., 2011, Can real-effort investments inhibit the convergence of experimental markets?, International Journal of Industrial Organization [P], vol 29, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 97-103.

Cason, T., Gangadharan, L., 2011, Price discovery and intermediation in linked emissions trading markets: A laboratory study, Ecological Economics [P], vol 70, issue 7, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 1424-1433.

Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L., Nikiforakis, N., 2011, Relative earnings and giving in a real-effort experiment, American Economic Review [P], vol 101, issue 7, American Economic Association, Nashville USA, pp. 3330-3348.

Gangadharan, L., Nikiforakis, N., 2009, Does the size of the action set matter for cooperation?, Economics Letters [P], vol 104, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 115-117.

Gangadharan, L., Nemes, V., 2009, Experimental analysis of risk and uncertainty in provisioning private and public goods, Economic Inquiry [P], vol 47, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, Hoboken USA, pp. 146-164.

Alatas, V., Cameron, L.A., Chaudhuri, A., Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L., 2009, Gender, culture, and corruption: Insights from an experimental analysis, Southern Economic Journal [P], vol 75, issue 3, Southern Economic Association, Richmond USA, pp. 663-680.

Cameron, L.A., Chaudhuri, A., Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L., 2009, Propensities to engage in and punish corrupt behavior: Experimental evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore, Journal of Public Economics [P], vol 93, issue 7-8, Elsevier BV North-Holland, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 843-851.

Duke, C., Gangadharan, L., 2008, Salinity in water markets: An experimental investigation of the Sunraysia salinity levy in Australia, Ecological Economics [P], vol 68, issue 1-2, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 486-503.

Alatas, V., Cameron, L.A., Chaudhuri, A., Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L., 2008, Subject pool effects in a corruption experiment: A comparison of Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students, Experimental Economics [P], issue 1, Springer New York LLC, New York USA, pp. 1-20.

Chaudhuri, A., Gangadharan, L., 2007, An experimental analysis of trust and trustworthiness, Southern Economic Journal [P], vol 73, issue 4, Southern Economic Association, Chattanooga USA, pp. 959-985.

Cason, T., Gangadharan, L., 2006, An experimental study of compliance and leverage in auditing and regulatory enforcement, Economic Inquiry [P], vol 44, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, Hoboken USA, pp. 352-366.

Cason, T.N., Gangadharan, L., 2006, Emissions variability in tradable permit markets with imperfect enforcement and banking, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization [P], vol 61, issue 2, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 199-216.

Gangadharan, L., 2006, Environmental compliance by firms in the manufacturing sector in Mexico, Ecological Economics [P], vol 59, issue 4, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 477-486.

Cason, T., Gangadharan, L., 2005, A laboratory comparison of uniform and discriminative price auctions for reducing non-point source pollution, Land Economics [P], vol 81, issue 1, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison USA, pp. 51-70.

Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., 2003, Testing for son preference in South Africa, Journal of African Economies, vol 12, issue 3, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 371-416.

Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., 2003, The effect of education on the timing of marriage and first birth in Pakistan, Journal of Quantitative Economics, vol 1, issue 1, Indian Econometric Society, India, pp. 114-133.

Gangadharan, L., Valenzuela, R., 2001, Interrrelationships between Health, Income and the Environment: Extending the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis, Ecological Economics, vol 36, issue 3, Elsevier Science BV, Netherlands, pp. 513-531.

Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., 2001, Two aspects of fertility behavior in South Africa, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol 50, issue 1, University of Chicago, Chicago USA, pp. 183-200.

Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., 2000, Does Child Mortality Reflect Gender Bias? Evidence from Pakistan, Indian Economic Review, vol xxxv issue 2, University of Delhi, India, pp. 113-131.