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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 Económico |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}}


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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