Technology, Operations and Decisions Sciences
Research Interests: Political Economy (Formal Theory and Modeling), Theoretical Development Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Decision Sciences
Profile
Professor Abhinandan Sinha has a Bachelor’s in Science with Honors in Statistics from Calcutta University, and a Masters in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata (lSI). After briefly working as a researcher at Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) India, on Multidimensional Poverty Indices, he went on to earn a PhD in Quantitative Economics from his alma mater, the Indian Statistical Institute, to pursue his interest in social science. His research interest lies in the political economy of development, with mathematical modelling of game theoretical applications. He also devotes time for research and policy-based startups and writes occasional columns on relevant issues.
Publications
1. 2022, Clientelism and Violence: The Politics of Informal Economy
Abhirup Sarkar, Abhinandan Sinha.
Economic Modelling, 105906, ISSN 0264-9993,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105906.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999322001523)
Journal Impact Factor in 2020: 3.127
Journal rank: Q1 quartile (76.53 percentile), 89 out of 377 (or 95 out of 549) economics
journals
ABDC Rank in 2020: A
Academic Journal Guide/ABS Rank in 2021: 2
2. 2023, Strategic Analysis of Griefing Attack in Lightning Network
Subhra Mazumdar; Prabal Banerjee; Abhinandan Sinha; Sushmita Ruj; Bimal Kumar
Roy.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 105906, ISSN
0264-9993,
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2022.3230768.
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9993793)
Journal Impact Factor in 2022: 4.758
Journal rank: Q1 quartile , Rank: 33 in the category of ’computer networks and
communications’
CiteScore: 7.2
Awards and Scholarships
2019, Travel Grant for 2nd Development Economics Conference at University of Lincoln, UK from Indian Statistical Institute
2017 Senior Research Fellowship, Indian Statistical Institute
2015 Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Statistical Institute
2014 Second Prize in Best Paper Competition in Eastern India at Census Data Dissemination Workshop by United Nations Population Program - Census Directorate of India
2011 Stipend scholarship for Masters program at Indian Statistical Institute
Teaching
2025 ECO502: Game Theory for Economics with Applications (Postgraduate
course, Ahmedabad University)
2024 TOD504: Mathematics for Economics (Postgraduate course, Ahmedabad
University)
2024 Data Analysis, Foundation Development Program: Democracy and
Justice (Undergraduate course, Ahmedabad University)
2024, 2023 ECO701: Game Theory with Applications (PhD course, Ahmedabad
University)
2023, 2022 ECO501: Intermediate Microeconomics (Postgraduate course,
Ahmedabad University)
2023, 2022 ECO507: Models of Political Economy (Postgraduate course, Ahmedabad
University)
2023, 2022 ECO300: Models of Political Economy (Undergraduate course,
Ahmedabad University)
2025, 2022 STA100: Probability (Undergraduate course, Ahmedabad University)
2020 Teacher, M2: Introductory Economics (Postgraduate course, Indian Statistical
Institute)
2018 Teaching Assistant, B2: Microeconomics (Undergraduate course, Indian Statistical
Institute)
2017 Teaching Assistant, B2: Microeconomics (Undergraduate course, Indian Statistical
Institute)
2014 Guest Lecturer, M1: Probability Theory (Postgraduate course, Ramkrishna
Mission Vivekananda University, Belur, India)
Working Papers
1. Investments and Democracy
Abhirup Sarkar, Abhinandan Sinha.
(Under Review)
2. Land and Rights: The Dilemma of Development
Abhirup Sarkar, Abhinandan Sinha.
(Under Review)
3. Elites, Lobbying and Capture: A Theory of Public Electoral Finance
Abhinandan Sinha, Prarthna Iyer.
4. Identity versus Economics?
Abhinandan Sinha.
Work in Progress
1. Thickness of Information, Inequality and Growth Traps
Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Abhinandan Sinha