Experts & Expertise

• Competition policy
• Environmental economics
• Environmental policy
• Industrial organization
• Mergers and acquisitions

• Ph.D. in Economics, McGill University, Canada, Thesis: Mergers under Trade Liberalization, Supervisor: Hassan Benchekroun, 2008
• M.A. in Economics, McGill University, Canada, August 2002
• B.Sc. Honours in Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK, July 2001

• Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Tilburg University (since September 2007)
• Lecturer/Research Assistant, McGill University (2002-2007)

Working Papers:

• Benchekroun, H., & Ray Chaudhuri, A. (2009). On Cleaner Technologies in a Transboundary Pollution Game. (TILEC Discussion Paper, 2009-014) pp. 1-14. (Free access)(More)
• Baksi, S., & Ray Chaudhuri, A. (2008). Transboundary Pollution, Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxes. (TILEC Discussion Paper, 2008-033)(Free access)(More)
• Benchekroun, H., & Ray Chaudhuri, A. (2008). Collusion Inducing Taxation of a Polluting Oligopoly. (CentER Discussion Paper, 2008-80) pp. 1-23. (Free access)(More)
• Ray Chaudhuri, A., & Benchekroun, H. (2008). Welfare Effect of Mergers and Trade Liberalization. (TILEC Discussion Paper, 2008-009) (Free access)(More)
• Ray Chaudhuri, A. (2008). A Dynamic Model of Endogenous Mergers and Trade Liberalization. (TILEC Discussion Paper, 2008-005) (Free access)(More)

Work in Progress:

• "Regional trade agreements and environmental policy", co-author Soham Baksi (University of Winnipeg)

• "Bertrand competition with asymmetric costs: Experimental evidence", co-authors Jan Boone and Wieland Mueller (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Referee

Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Environmental and Resource Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis

Research Grants

2008-2011 The Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grant in collaboration with Yazid Dissou and Hassan Benchekroun

2006 - 2007 Fond Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC): Doctoral Award

2005 - 2006 The Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC): Doctoral Fellowship

2004 - 2005 J.W. McConnell & Neil Croll McGill Major Fellowship

Presentations at Conferences

2010 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Montreal

2010 MidWest International Economics Study Group Mettings, Chicago

2010 11th Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics, Amsterdam 

2009 European Association for Environmental & Resource Economics Conference, Amsterdam

2008 European Economic Association Conference, Milan

2008, 2006 Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 & 2004 Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings

2007 CEF Society for Computational Economics, Montreal
2007 Spring Meeting Young Economists, Hamburg
2007 NAKE Research Day, Utrecht
2006 Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Annual Workshop,Wolfville
2006 & 2005 CIREQ Ph.D. Students' Conference, Montreal
2004 - 2007 CIREQ Natural Resources and Environmental Economics Workshop, Montreal

Invited Seminar Presentations

2009 McGill University, Canada : CIREQ Natural Resources and Environmental Economics Workshop 

2008 University of Limerick, Ireland

2007 Guelph University, Canada; Ryerson University, Canada; York University, Canada; Memorial University, Canada; Windsor University, Canada; Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; University of Regina, Canada.
2006 Strathclyde University, U.K.