Recent publications (from most recent)

2025

1. Bhattacharya, H., Dugar, S., & Sarkar, S. (2025). Bargaining over taking from a powerless third party: The role of social preferences, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 119, 102429. https://doi.org.10.1016/j.socec.2025.102429 [ABDC A]
2. Bose, A. S & Sarkar, S. (2025). Parental spending on higher education: Incorporating guilt aversion in intergenerational transfers. Journal of Quantitative Economics, (Online). https://doi.org.10.1007/s40953-025-00485-3 [ABDC B]
3. Mishra, S. K., Sarkar, S., & Guha, A. (2025). Should Both Platforms Be Kept Operational After a Merger of Two Social Media Businesses?, Managerial and Decision Economics, Ahead of print (February), https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4508 [ABDC B]

2024

1. Acha, R. K., Sarkar, S., Guha, A., & Ayyalusamy, K. (2024). A Model of Insolvency Resolution: When is Bankruptcy Inefficient? American Business Review 27(2), 549-572. https://doi.org/10.37625/abr.27.2.549-572 [ABDC A]
2. Guan, T., Sarkar, S. & Swartz, T. (2024). Comparison of individual playing styles in football. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 20(4), 351-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/jqas-2024-0041 [Scopus Q1]
3. Bose, A. S., & Sarkar, S. (2024). Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers. Applied Economics Letters, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2024.2302868 [ABDC B; Scopus Q2]
4. Acha, R. K., & Sarkar, S. (2023). A note on bankruptcy auction with a fair bidder, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 22, 211-221. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-023-00372-9 [ABDC B]

2023

1. Mishra, S. K., & Sarkar, S. (2023). Can social media platforms charge their users?, Economics Letters233 (December), 2069909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111415 [ABDC A; ABS 3]
2. Acha, R. K., & Sarkar, S. (2023). A note on bankruptcy auction with a fair bidder, Journal of Quantitative Economics, (online first). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-023-00372-9 [ABDC B]
3. Sarkar, S., & Kamath, S. (2023). Does luck play a role in the determination of the rank positions in football leagues? A study of Europe’s ‘big five’. Annals of Operations Research325, 245–260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04369-6 [ABDC A; ABS 3]

2022

1. Mitra, A., & Sarkar, S. (2022). Efficient Supply Chain Contracting with Loss-averse Players in Presence of Multiple Plausible Breaches, American Business Review, 25(2), Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37625/abr.25.2.270-292 [ABDC A]
2. Sarkar, S. (2022). Collaborative cheating and group confession: Findings from a natural experiment, Cogent Social Sciences, 8(1), 2069909 (Online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2022.2069909 [Scopus Q2]
3. Kejriwal, S., Sheth, S., Silpa, P. S., Sarkar, S., & Guha, A. (2022). Attaining herd immunity to a new infectious disease through multi-stage policies incentivising voluntary vaccination. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 154C, 111710. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.111710 [Scopus Q1]
4. Bose, A. S., & Sarkar, S. (2022). Delight or Disappointment? A Model of Signal-Based Other-Pleasing Choice. Journal of Choice Modelling, 42, 100327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2021.100327 [ABDC B; Scopus Q1]

2021

1. Sarkar, S., & Bhala. S. (2021). Coordinating a closed loop supply chain with fairness concern by a constant wholesale price contract. European Journal of Operational Research, 295(1), 140-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.02.052 [ABDC A*; ABS 4]

2020

1. Sarkar, S. & Bhadouria, A. (2020). Manufacturer competition and collusion in a two-echelon green supply chain with production trade-off between non-green and green quality. Journal of Cleaner Production 253(C), 119904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119904 [ABDC A, Scopus Q1]

2019

1. Bose, A. S., & Sarkar, S. (2019). India`s e-Reverse Auctions (2017-2018) for Allocating Renewable Energy Capacity: An Evaluation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 112, 762-774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.06.025 [Scopus Q1]
2. Sarkar, S. (2019). Gratitude, conscience, and reciprocity: models of supplier motivation when quality is non-contractible. European Journal of Operational Research 277(2), 633-642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.02.047 [ABDC A*; ABS 4]
3. Sarkar, S. & Bose, A. S. (2019). Gift-selection for close recipients: how perceived similarity of preferees affect giver`s attitude. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 36(1), 24-32. https://do.org/10.1108/JCM-12-2017-247 [ABDC A; Scopus 1]

1. Sarkar, S (2015) Outthink - How to use Game Theory to outsmart your competition Publisher: Sage Publications, November, 2015
2. Sarkar, S (2009) Network Industries Economic Aspects of Compatibility, Technology Licensing and R&D Investments in Systems Market, Publisher: VDM Publishing House, Germany; July 2009

1. 2019. Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 4-7, 2019. Paper title: Altruistic Choice under Incomplete Information About the Others Preference and Expectation.
2. 2019. Conference on Economic Theory and Policy, at the Department of Economics, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), March 29-30, 2019. Paper title: Non-contractible Quality in Absence of Reputation Effect.
3. 2017. MathSport International Conference, at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy, June 25-28, 2017. Paper title: Paradox of Crosses - A Game-Theoretic Explanation.
4. 2016. 28th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO 2016, in Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, July 3-6, 2016. (Attended by co-author S. Chakraborty) Paper title: Determinants of Non-penalty Goals Scored per Game by Football Teams in Europe`s Elite Leagues.
5. 2016. 7th International Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE), ESSEC Business School in Cergy-Pontoise, France, June 9-10, 2016. Paper title: Does Rawls` `Original Position` Induce Fairness? Experimental Findings on Selection Criteria in a Discrete Nash Demand Game Played from Behind the `Veil of Ignorance` /o:p>
6. 2015. Forum on Industrial Organization and Marketing at Lisbon, Portugal, June 29-30, 2015. Paper title: Can Continuous Product Upgrading Deter Entry?

1. European Journal of Operational Research
2. International Journal of Production Economics
3. International Journal of Production Research
4. Bulletin of Economic Research
5. Annals of Operations Research
6. Transactions in Operational Research
7. Operations Research Perspectives
8. Journal of Economic Psychology
9. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
10. Journal of Quantitative Economics
11. Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift)
12. The Manchester School

1. IIM Indore during the academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11
2. IIM Ranchi during the academic year 2013-14 and 2018-19
3. IMT Ghaziabad during the academic year 2016-17
4. National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT), Nagpur, during the season 2016-17, for the 69th batch of Indian Revenue Services (IRS).