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Venkataraman Bhaskar
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 84
Citations - 2425
Venkataraman Bhaskar is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Repeated game & Stochastic game. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 84 publications receiving 2265 citations. Previous affiliations of Venkataraman Bhaskar include University of Texas System & University of Essex.
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Oligopsony and monopsonistic competition in labor markets
TL;DR: The authors argue that models of oligopsony or monopsonistic competition provide insights and explanation for many empirical phenomena in labor markets, such as the existence of wage dispersion, the persistence of labor market discrimination, market failures in the provision of training and the anomalous employment effects of minimum wages.
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Minimum Wages for Ronald McDonald Monopsonies: a Theory of Monopsonistic Competition
Venkataraman Bhaskar,Ted To +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed a model of monopsonistic competition with free entry to analyse the effects of minimum wages and found that a rise in the minimum wage raises employment per firm, causes firm exit and may increase or reduce industry employment.
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Belief-based equilibria in the repeated prisoners' dilemma with private monitoring
TL;DR: This article analyzed repeated prisoners' dilemma games with imperfect private monitoring and constructed mixed trigger strategy equilibria, where a player's action only depends upon her belief that her opponent(s) are continuing to cooperate.
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Informational Constraints and the Overlapping Generations Model: Folk and Anti-Folk Theorems
TL;DR: In this article, the sustainability of intergenerational transfers in Samuelson's consumption-loan model when agents are imperfectly informed about past events is analyzed, and it is shown that with mild informational constraints, transfers cannot be supported by pure-strategy equilibria.
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Privatization and employment: a study of the Jute industry in Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of privatization on employment in the Bangladeshi jute textile industry has been analyzed and the extent of employment reduction has been substantially greater among clerical workers and managers as compared to manual workers.