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	'''Debraj Ray'''<ref>{{cite web \|title=Debraj Ray \|url=https://debrajray.com/ \|website=Debraj Ray, Department of Economics, New York University \|accessdate=24 June 2021}}</ref> (born 3 September 1957) is an Indian-American economist ~~whose~~ focus is [[development economics]] and [[game theory]]. ~~Since 2002,~~ Ray is a Julius Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Professor of Economics at [[New York University]] since 1999. He is Co-~~Editor~~ of ~~the ''~~[[~~American Economic Review~~]]''.		'''Debraj Ray'''<ref>{{cite web \|title=Debraj Ray \|url=https://debrajray.com/ \|website=Debraj Ray, Department of Economics, New York University \|accessdate=24 June 2021}}</ref> (born 3 September 1957) is an Indian-American economist, who is currently teaching and working at [[New York University]]. His research interests focus on [[development economics]] and [[game theory]], and was the [[Co-editor]] of ''[[American Economic Review]]''.

			Ray is Julius Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Professor of Economics at [[New York University]] since 1999. At the same time, he is a Part-Time Professor at [[University of Warwick]]. Ray is a council member of [[Game Theory Society]] and he is also a board member in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD).

	==Education==		==Education==
	Ray graduated ~~with a bachelor of arts degree in economics~~ from ~~the~~ [[University of Calcutta]] in 1977. He obtained a ~~master's degree~~ (1981) and a ~~PhD~~ (1983) from [[Cornell University]], where his doctoral supervisor was Mukul Majumdar. The title of his Essays in [[Intertemporal choice\|Intertemporal Economics]].		Debraj Ray graduated from [[University of Calcutta]], where he earned a B.A. in Economics in 1977. After that, Ray obtained a M.A. (1981) and a Ph.D. (1983) both from [[Cornell University]], where his doctoral supervisor was Mukul Majumdar. The title of his Essays in [[Intertemporal choice\|Intertemporal Economics]].

	==Academic Career==		==Academic Career==
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	Ray has served on the [[editorial board]] of ''[[Econometrica]]'', the ''[[Journal of Economic Theory]]'', the ''[[Journal of Development Economics]]'', the ''Journal of Economic Growth'', the ''[[Japanese Economic Review]]'', ''[[Games and Economic Behavior]]'', ''[[American Economic Journal Microeconomics]]''. He has served as a Foreign Editor of the ''[[Review of Economic Studies]]'', and as Co-editor of the ''[[Econometric Society]]'' journal, ''[[Theoretical Economics]]''.		Ray has served on the [[editorial board]] of ''[[Econometrica]]'', the ''[[Journal of Economic Theory]]'', the ''[[Journal of Development Economics]]'', the ''Journal of Economic Growth'', the ''[[Japanese Economic Review]]'', ''[[Games and Economic Behavior]]'', ''[[American Economic Journal Microeconomics]]''. He has served as a Foreign Editor of the ''[[Review of Economic Studies]]'', and as Co-editor of the ''[[Econometric Society]]'' journal, ''[[Theoretical Economics]]''.

	~~== Books ==~~		Ray has received many teaching rewards from universities around the world and other honorary rewards from different institutions.
	*~~''A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation''~~, ~~London: Oxford~~ University ~~Press~~, ~~2007.~~		* Mahalanobis Memorial Medal of the Indian Econometric Society, 1989
	*~~''Contemporary Macroeconomics''~~, ~~edited with A. Bose and A. Sarkar, New Delhi: Oxford~~ University ~~Press~~, ~~2001.~~		* Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]], 1993
	*~~''Readings in~~ the ~~Theory~~ of ~~Economic Development'', edited with D. Mookherjee~~, ~~London: Blackwell, 2000.~~		* Gittner Teaching Award from [[Boston University]], 1996
	*''~~Development Economics~~'', [[~~Princeton~~ University ~~Press~~]], ~~1998~~. ~~Spanish edition, 2002, Antoni Bosch~~. ~~Chinese edition 2002, Beijing University Press~~. ~~Indian edition 1998,~~ Oxford University Press. ~~[http://press~~.~~princeton~~.~~edu/titles/6315~~.~~html Description]~~ and ~~excerpt, [http://assets~~.~~press~~.~~princeton~~.~~edu/chapters/s6315.pdf ch. 1.]{{ISBN~~\|~~9781400835898~~}}		* [[Guggenheim Fellow]], 1997
	*~~''Game~~-~~Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research'', edited with~~ B. ~~Dutta,~~ J. ~~Potters, T.~~ Parthasarathy, T. ~~Raghavan, and~~ A. ~~Sen, Theory~~ and ~~Decision Library C, Volume 18, [[Springer Science+Business Media~~\|Kluwer Academic Publishers~~]], 1997.~~		* Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching from [[Stanford University]], 1985
	*~~''Theoretical Issues~~ in Economic Development~~'', edited with B~~. ~~Dutta, S~~. ~~Gangopadhyay and D. Mookherjee,~~ New Delhi: Oxford University Press~~, 1993~~.		* Fellowship by the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], 2016
	*~~''Game Theory and~~ Economic ~~Applications: Proceedings'', edited with B~~. ~~Dutta,~~ D. ~~Mookherjee, T~~. ~~Parthasarathy, T~~. ~~Raghavan,~~ S. ~~Tijs, Springer Verlag, 1992~~.		* ''Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa'' from [[University of Oslo]], 2011
	*''Economic ~~Theory~~ and ~~Policy: Essays in Honour~~ of ~~Dipak Banerji'', edited with B~~. ~~Dutta, S~~. ~~Gangopadhyay~~ and D. ~~Mookherjee~~, ~~New Delhi~~: ~~Oxford University Press, 1990~~.		* Fellowship by the [[Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory]], 2011
			* Golden Dozen Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching from [[New York University]], 2017

			== Bibliography ==
			===Books===
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|editor1-last=Dutta \|editor1-first=B. \|editor2-last=Gangopadhyay \|editor2-first=S. \|editor3-last=Mookherjee \|editor3-first=D. \|title=Economic Theory and Policy: Essays in Honour of Dipak Banerji \|year=1990 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|location=New Delhi}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|editor1-last=Dutta \|editor1-first=B. \|editor2-last=Mookherjee \|editor2-first=D. \|editor3-last=Parthasarathy \|editor3-first=T. \|editor4-last=Raghavan \|editor4-first=T. \|editor5-last=Tijs \|editor5-first=S. \|title=Game Theory and Economic Applications \|year=1992 \|publisher=Springer Verlag \|location=New Delhi}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|editor1-last=Dutta \|editor1-first=B. \|editor2-last=Gangopadhyay \|editor2-first=S. \|editor3-last=Mookherjee \|editor3-first=D. \|title=Theoretical Issues in Economic Development \|year=1993 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|location=New Delhi}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|editor1-last=Dutta \|editor1-first=B. \|editor2-last=Potters \|editor2-first=J. \|editor3-last=Parthasarathy \|editor3-first=T. \|editor4-last=Sen \|editor4-first=A. \|title=Game-Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research \|year=1997 \|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|title=Development Economics \|year=1998 \|publisher=Princeton University Press}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|editor1-last=Mookherjee \|editor1-first=D. \|title=Readings in the Theory of Economic Development \|year=2000 \|publisher=Blackwell \|location=London}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Bose \|first2=A. \|last3=Sarkar \|first3=A. \|title=Contemporary Macroeconomics \|year=2001 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|location=New Delhi}}
			* {{cite book \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|title=A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation \|year=2008 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|location=New York}}

			===Journal articles===
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Genicot \|first2=G. \|title=Aspirations and Inequality \|journal=Econometrica \|year=2017 \|volume=85 \|pages=489–519}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|title=Kenneth Arrow \|journal=El Trimestre Economico \|year=2017 \|volume=84 \|pages=761–769}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Robson \|first2=A. \|title=Certified Random: A New Order for Co-Authorship \|journal=American Economic Review \|year=2018 \|volume=108 \|pages=489–520}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Anderson \|first2=S. \|title=Missing Unmarried Women \|journal=Journal of the European Economic Association \|year=2019 \|volume=17 \|pages=1585–1616}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Vohra \|first2=R. \|title=Maximality in the Farsighted Stable Set \|journal=Econometrica \|year=2019 \|volume=87 \|pages=1763–1779}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Lou \|first2=Y. \|last3=Parsa \|first3=S. \|last4=Li \|first4=D. \|last5=Wang \|first5=S. \|title=Information Aggregation In a Financial Market With General Signal Structure \|journal=Journal of Economic Theory \|year=2019 \|volume=183 \|pages=594–624}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Philip \|first2=M. \|last3=Subramanian \|first3=S. \|title=Decoding India’s Low COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate \|journal=Journal of Human Development and Capabilities \|year=2020 \|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2020.1863026}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Vohra \|first2=R. \|title=Games of Love and Hate \|journal=Journal of Political Economy \|year=2020 \|volume=128 \|pages=1789–1825}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Subramanian \|first2=S. \|title=India’s Lockdown: An Interim Report \|journal=Indian Economic Review \|year=2020 \|volume=55(S1) \|pages=31–79}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Genicot \|first2=G. \|title=Aspirations and Economic Behavior \|journal=Annual Review of Economics \|year=2020 \|volume=12 \|pages=715–746}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Espinosa \|first2=F. \|last3=Vohra \|first3=R. \|title=A Principal-Agent Relationship With No Advantage to Commitment \|journal=Pure and Applied Functional Analysis \|year=2021 \|volume=6 \|pages=1043–1064}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Mookherjee \|first2=D. \|title=Growth, Automation, and the Long-Run Share of Labor \|journal=Review of Economic Dynamics \|year=2021 \|url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2021.09.003}}
			* {{cite journal \|last1=Ray \|first1=Debraj \|last2=Mayoral \|first2=Laura \|title=Groups in Conflict: Private and Public Prizes \|journal=Journal of Development Economics \|year=2021}}

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'''Debraj Ray'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Debraj Ray |url=https://debrajray.com/ |website=Debraj Ray, Department of Economics, New York University |accessdate=24 June 2021}}</ref> (born 3 September 1957) is an Indian-American economist whose focus is [[development economics]] and [[game theory]]. Since 2002, Ray is a Julius Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Professor of Economics at [[New York University]] since 1999. He is Co-Editor of the ''[[American Economic Review]]''.

==Education==
Ray graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1977. He obtained a master's degree (1981) and a PhD (1983) from [[Cornell University]], where his doctoral supervisor was Mukul Majumdar. The title of his Essays in [[Intertemporal choice|Intertemporal Economics]].

==Academic Career==
Prior to joining NYU, Ray held academic positions at [[Stanford University]], the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], and at [[Boston University]], where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Development. He has held visiting appointments at [[Harvard University]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], the [[Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]], the [[Renmin University of China|People's University of China]] in Beijing, the [[London School of Economics]], [[Columbia University]], and the Instituto de Análisis Económico in [[Barcelona]]. He is a part-time professor at the [[University of Warwick]].

==Professional affiliations and awards==
Ray is a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[Econometric Society]], a [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellow]], a recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, and a recipient of the Outstanding Young Scientists Award in mathematics from the [[Indian National Science Academy]]. He received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford University and the Gittner Award for Teaching Excellence in Economics from Boston University. He was awarded a ''Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa'' from the [[University of Oslo]].

Ray has served on the [[editorial board]] of ''[[Econometrica]]'', the ''[[Journal of Economic Theory]]'', the ''[[Journal of Development Economics]]'', the ''Journal of Economic Growth'', the ''[[Japanese Economic Review]]'', ''[[Games and Economic Behavior]]'', ''[[American Economic Journal Microeconomics]]''. He has served as a Foreign Editor of the ''[[Review of Economic Studies]]'', and as Co-editor of the ''[[Econometric Society]]'' journal, ''[[Theoretical Economics]]''.

== Books ==
*''A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation'', London: Oxford University Press, 2007.
*''Contemporary Macroeconomics'', edited with A. Bose and A. Sarkar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
*''Readings in the Theory of Economic Development'', edited with D. Mookherjee, London: Blackwell, 2000.
*''Development Economics'', [[Princeton University Press]], 1998. Spanish edition, 2002, Antoni Bosch. Chinese edition 2002, Beijing University Press. Indian edition 1998, Oxford University Press. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6315.html Description] and excerpt, [http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s6315.pdf ch. 1.]{{ISBN|9781400835898}}
*''Game-Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research'', edited with B. Dutta, J. Potters, T. Parthasarathy, T. Raghavan, and A. Sen, Theory and Decision Library C, Volume 18, [[Springer Science+Business Media|Kluwer Academic Publishers]], 1997.
*''Theoretical Issues in Economic Development'', edited with B. Dutta, S. Gangopadhyay and D. Mookherjee, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.
*''Game Theory and Economic Applications: Proceedings'', edited with B. Dutta, D. Mookherjee, T. Parthasarathy, T. Raghavan, S. Tijs, Springer Verlag, 1992.
*''Economic Theory and Policy: Essays in Honour of Dipak Banerji'', edited with B. Dutta, S. Gangopadhyay and D. Mookherjee, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.debrajray.com Debraj Ray's homepage at New York University]
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