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Vishavdeep Sharma

Vishavdeep Sharma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) at The Ohio State University, where he also serves as a Graduate Research Associate jointly at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and AEDE. He studies firms and industry, combining oligopoly theory with applied microeconomics to examine how competition and strategic interactions shape market outcomes, with work spanning industrial organization, the economics of regulation, and development economics.
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When is Corporate Bribery a Good Investment?

Vishavdeep Sharma
In new research, Vishavdeep Sharma and Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar analyze corporate corruption through the lens of market competition. Firms often bribe officials to block rivals from entering their markets, and their incentive to do so depends less on how competitive a market is than on what kind of competition it has.

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