Welcome to the Home Page of
Pankaj Tandon

How to reach me:

Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road, Room 526
Boston, MA 02215

Telephone: (617) 353-3089
e-mail: ptandon@bu.edu

My Office Hours:
Tu 9-10:30, Th 8-9:30


COURSE INFORMATION:

           EC 501, Fall 2014

SOME BACKGROUND:

          Ph.D., Harvard University. Thesis: Aspects of Optimal R&D Policy.

RESEARCH FIELDS:

·         Numismatics, Technological Change, Microeconomic Theory, Public Enterprise, Economic Development

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

·         BOOKS

·         The Welfare Consequences of Selling Public Enterprises (with A. Galal, L. P. Jones, and I. Vogelsang), Oxford University Press, 1994.

·         Selling Public Enterprises: A Cost-Benefit Methodology (with L. P. Jones and I. Vogelsang), MIT Press, 1990.

·         ARTICLES

·         "Efficiency of Privatised Firms: Evidence and Implications," Economic and Political Weekly, December 1997.

·         "Divestiture and Deregulation: The Case of Mexico's Airlines," in Ravi Ramamurti (ed.): Privatizing Monopolies, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996.

·         "Welfare Effects of Privatization: Some Evidence from Mexico," Boston University International Law Journal, Fall 1995.

·         "A Note on Optimal Pricing of Publicly Produced Intermediate Inputs," Atlantic Economic Journal, September 1989.

·         "Innovation, Market Structure and Welfare," American Economic Review, June 1984.

·         "Rivalry and the Excessive Allocation of Resources to Research," Bell Journal of Economics, Spring 1983.

·         "Optimal Patents with Compulsory Licensing," Journal of Political Economy, June 1982.

Full CV


MY NUMISMATIC WEBSITE:

          



MY NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS:

·         The Coins of Purugupta, Numismatic Digest, (forthcoming).

·         The Identity of Prakasaditya, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (forthcoming).

·         Sculptural Parallels in the Coinage of Vijayanagar, Studies in South Indian Coins, (forthcoming).

·         Two New Types of Kushan Forgeries, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, (forthcoming).

·         The Succession after Kumaragupta I, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, No. 4, October 2014, pp. 557-572.

·         How to read the legends on coins of the Western Kshatrapas: A Beginner's Guide, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 220, Summer 2014, pp. 43-47.

·         An Enigmatic Coin from Mewar, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 36-37, 2012-13 (published 2014), pp. 138-145.

·         Horseman Coins of Candragupta III, Numismatic Chronicle, 173 (2013), pp 171-185.

·         Notes on the Evolution of Alchon Coins, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 216, Summer 2013, pp. 24-34.

·         Tentative Attributions of some gold fanams of the Eastern Gangas, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 34-35, 2010-11 (published 2012), pp. 78-100.

·         The Lion Conqueror Type of Kumaragupta I, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 212, Summer 2012, pp. 22-23.

·         The Location and Kings of Paradan, Studia Iranica, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 25-56.

·         The Crowns on Kanishka's Bronze Coins and Some Additional Shiva Images on Kushan Coins, in Shailendra Bhandare and Sanjay Garg (eds.): Felicitas: Essays in Numismatics, Epigraphy and History in Honour of Joe Cribb, Mumbai: Reesha Books International, 2011.

·         A Simple Two Mint Model for Western Kshatrapa Coinage, Numismatic Digest, Vols. 32-33, 2008-09 (published 2011), pp. 33-78.

·         A Hoard of Kushan Coins from Mingora, Numismatic Chronicle 170, Coin Hoards, 2010, pp. 427-431.

·         The Coins of the Paratarajas: A Synthesis, Supplement to the Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society 205: A Seminar on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Numismatic Society of India, Autumn 2010, pp. 15-31.

·         A Spate of New, Tooled Forgeries of Kushan and Parataraja Coins," Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 204 (Summer 2010), pp. 17-20.

·         Fifty Coins in 2,500 years: A Numismatic Walk through Indian History, The Celator, Part I: July 2010, Part II: August 2010.

·         The Channapatna plates: A new set of copper plates of the Western Gangas (with Andrea Schlosser), Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, Band 26 (2009), pp. 219-247.

·         The Western Kshatrapa Damazada, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 169 (2009), pp. 173-187.

·         Further Light on the Paratarajas: An Absolute Chronology of the Brahmi and Kharoshthi Series, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 169 (2009), pp. 137-171.

·         Isvaradeva: A New Western Kshatrapa King, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 201 (Autumn 2009), pp. 10-11.

·         An Important New Copper Coin of Gadahara, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 200 (Summer 2009), p. 17-20.

·         Pracandendra, not Pracatunde: An Improved Reading of Some Coins of the Yashaaditya Series, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 197 (Autumn 2008), p. 30.

·         More Early Medieval Portrait Coins of the Yashaaditya Series, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 195 (Spring 2008), pp. 17-23.

·         Some Unlisted Coins of the Bengal Presidency, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 194 (Winter 2008), pp. 37-38.

·         Some Magadha Series I overstrikes from Sasaram, Numismatic Digest, Volume 31 (2007), pp. 17-45.

·         A Gold Coin of the Pala king Dharmapala, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 166, 2006, pp. 327-333.

·         New Light on the Paratarajas, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 166, 2006, pp. 173-209.

·         "Suktimati: A New Coin and History of the City-State," (with Prashant P. Kulkarni), Indian Coin Society Newsletter , No. 32, April 2004.

·         "Some New Coin Types of the Kushan King Kanishka II," Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter, No. 172, Summer 2002.


WORK IN PROGRESS:

·         A Course in Microeconomic Theory, textbook under review.

·         Kushan Coins: A Catalogue based on the Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun coins in the British Museum, 1st-5th centuries AD (with Joe Cribb, Robert Bracey, Gul Rahim Khan and Duncan Hook), British Museum Publications, in preparation.

·         The Simple Analytics of Cash versus Food Price Subsidies, November 2011.

·         An Integrated Approach to the Theory of Externalities: An Exposition, (July 2011).


MY FAMILY:



With my wife, Karen Clark, daughters (L to R) Lily, Olivia (the bride) and Xandra
along with son-in-law Brian Vecci.
(July 27, 2013)


Last update: October 2014


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