Dr. Kameshwari Shankar is an Associate Professor of Economics and Business at the Colin Powell School, CCNY and an affiliated faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. She received her economics doctoral degree from Cornell University and her undergraduate and masters degree in Economics from Delhi University, India. She brieflly worked in Antitrust Consulting before joining City College.
Her main area of research is Applied Microeconomic Theory, specifically, Industrial Organization and Labor and Personnel Economics. She has published in top field journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and Economic Inquiry. Her work has been cited in the New York Times. Dr. Shankar teaches courses in Microeconomics and related fields such as Game Theory and Industrial Organization at the undergrduate, graduate and Ph.D. levels.
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- M.A. Economics, 2000, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India
- B.A. Economics, 1998, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India
Courses
- Principles of Microeconomics (ECO 10250)
- Microeconomics (ECO 20250)
- Math for Economics and Business (ECO 10002)
- Game Theory, Industrial Organization, MA Microeconomics (ECOB0000)
Selected Publications:
- “Price discrimination through cause related marketing,” (with Suman Ghosh) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12478
- “Evidence on Online Higher Education: The Promise of COVID-19 Pandemic Data,” (with Punit Arora and M.C. Binz-Scharf) Management and Labour Studies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0258042X211064783
- “Optimal Enforcement of Covenant Not to Compete Agreements,” (with Suman Ghosh), Economic Inquiry, Vol 55, No. 1, May 2016, pp. 305-318.
- “Developers’ Incentives and Open Source Software Licensing: GPL vs. BSD,” (with Vidya Atal), B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 15, No. 3, March 2015, pp. 1381-1416.
- “Red, White and Pink: Linking Public Good Contributions to Private Good Sales,” (with Suman Ghosh), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 88, April 2013, pp. 96-108.
