Download PDF

Academic appointments
Associate professor of economics at CIDE (2013-present)
Assistant professor of economics at CIDE (2006-2012)
Marie Curie research fellow at CORE (2004-2006)
Assistant professor of economics at Universidad de Guanajuato (2003-2004)

Academic degrees
PhD in economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2003
MS in quantitative economics at Indian Statistical Institute, 1998
BSc (honors) in economics at St. Xavier's College, 1996

Research
Contract theory; Corporate finance; Industrial organization; Matching.

Selected publications
Kaniska Dam and David Pérez-Castrillo (2006), The principal-agent matching market, Frontiers of Theoretical Economics, 2(1): article 1. Winner of the Arrow prize in theoretical economics.

Kaniska Dam and Daniel Ruiz-Pérez (2012), On the existence of share contracts under limited liability, Economics Letters, 117(3): 552-555.

Kaniska Dam (2015), Incentives and income distribution in tenancy relationships, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 171: 512-543.

Kaniska Dam (2015), Job assignment, market power and managerial incentives, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 57: 222-233.