Rachel Kranton
Professor
Department of
Duke
Research
Rachel Kranton studies how institutions, networks, and the
social setting affect economic outcomes. Her teaching and research span
several fields including microeconomics, industrial organization, economic
development, and behavioral economics. In 2001-2002 she was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 1996-1997, she was a fellow at
the Russell Sage Foundation in
Book Manuscript and Working Papers
"More than
Money: Economics and Identity," with George Akerlof.
Under contract,
"Risk Sharing Across
Communities," with Yann Bramoullé, January 2007
"Vertical Merger and Specific Investments: A
Tale of the Second Best," with Deborah Minehart,
September 2004.
"Identity and the Economics of
Organizations," with George Akerlof,
September 2003. (Includes modeling that does appear in the JEP version).
Publications
"Contracts, Hold-Up and Exports:
Textiles and Opium in Colonial India," with Anand
Swamy, July 2007, forthcoming American Economic
Review.
"Public Goods in
Networks," with Yann Bramoullé,
Journal of Economic Theory, 135(1), July 2007, pp. 478-494.
"Risk Sharing Networks,"
with Yann Bramoullé, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64 (3-4), November-December 2007,pp. 275-294.
"The Formation
of Industrial Supply Networks," with Deborah Minehart,
in James Rauch (ed.), The Formation and Decay of Networks, (
"Identity and the Economics
of Organizations," with George Akerlof,
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall/Winter 2004.
"Social
Divisions within Schools: How school policies can affect students' identities
and educational choices," with George Akerlof,
forthcoming in Christopher Barret (ed.), The Social
Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Groups, Communities and Networks,
"A Model of
Poverty and Oppositional Culture," with George Akerlof,
in Kaushik Basu, Pulin Nayak, and Ranjan Ray (eds.), Markets and Governments, Oxford
University Press, 2003.
"Competition and the
Incentive to Produce High Quality," Economica,
70 (279) August 2003, pp. 385-404.
"Identity and Schooling: Some
Lessons for the Economics of Education," with George Akerlof, Journal of Economic Literature, 40(4), December
2002, pp.1167-1201.
"A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks,"
with Deborah Minehart, American Economic Review
91(3), June 2001, pp.485-508.
"Competition for Goods in
Buyer-Seller Networks," with Deborah Minehart,
Review of Economic Design, 5(3), September 2000, pp. 301-331.
"Economics and Identity," with George
Akerlof, Quarterly Journal of Economics CXV(3), August 2000, pp. 715-733.
"Networks versus Vertical Integration,"
with Deborah Minehart, RAND Journal of Economics,
31(3), Autumn 2000, pp.570-601.
"The Hazards of Piecemeal Reform: British
Civil Courts and the Credit Markets in Colonial India," with Anand Swamy, Journal of
Development Economics, 58(1), February 1999, pp. 1-24.
"Reciprocal Exchange: A Self-Sustaining System,"
American Economic Review, 86(4), September 1996, pp. 830-851.
"The Formation of
Cooperative Relationships," Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization, 12(1), April 1996, pp. 214-233.
Technical
Appendices
Technical Appendix for "Economics
and Identity," with George Akerlof.
Technical Appendix for "Identity and
Schooling," with George Akerlof.