R K Amit

Associate Professor
Office: DoMS 504
Phone: 2257 4575(O)
Email:rkamit@iitm.ac.in

PhD, Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India Dissertation: Topics in Demand Management, December 2009
M.Tech., Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India, 2000
B.Tech., Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India, 1998 Minor in Environmental Engineering

Bargaining Mechanisms with Refusal Cost.
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Anchoring Bias in Forecast Information Sharing in a Supply Chain.
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R.K.Amit and B. Vipin, "Loss Aversion and Rationality in the News vendor Problem under Recourse Option”, European Journal of Operational Research, 2016
R K Amit and P. Ramachandran, “Aspects of Exchangeability in the Shapley value”, International Game Theory Review, 15(4), 2013.
L. Devangan, R K Amit, P. Mehta, S. Swami, and Kripa Shankar, “Individually Rational Buyback Contracts with Inventory Level Dependent Demand”, International Journal of Production Economics, 142(2):381-387, 2013.
R K Amit and P. Ramachandran, “A Relational Contract for Water Demand Management under Market Failure”, Urban Water Journal, 10(3):209-215, 2012.
R K Amit and P. Mehta, “Repeated Contracts for Supply Chain Coordination under Asymmetric Information: A Review and Future Directions”, Technology, Operations and Management, 1(2): 31-36, 2010.
R K Amit and P. Ramachandran, “A Fair Contract for Managing Water Scarcity”, Water Resources Management, 24(6):1195-1209, 2010.

R. R. Tripathi and R K Amit, ””Stability of Coalitional Games in Partition Function Form”, 9th Spain- Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (SING9), Vigo (Spain), July 8-10, 2013.
P. Kumar, A. K. Singh, and R K Amit, “Priority Functions in Recurrent Combinatorial Auctions”, GAMES 2012—The FourthWorld Congress of the Game Theory Society, Istanbul, July 22-26, 2012.
N. Karthikram, R. K. Rajagopal, G. Janarthanan, and R K Amit, ”Anchoring Bias in Forecast Information Sharing in a Supply Chain“, FUR XV—The Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory, Atlanta, June 30-July 03, 2012.
R K Amit and P. Ramachandran, “Aspects of Exchangeability in the Shapley value”, International Conference on Game Theory, Operations Research and their Applications (GTORA 2012), Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai, January 5-7, 2012.
D. Deepak, R K Amit, and P. Mehta, “ Efficiency Analysis of Relational Contracts in Three Level Supply Chain”, XV Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Calcutta, December 16-18, 2011.
P. Kumar, A. K. Singh, and R K Amit, “Priority Functions in Recurrent Combinatorial Auctions”, UECE Lisbon Meetings 2011 in Game Theory and Applications, November 3-5, 2011.
R K Amit and P. Ramachandran, “Dynamic Contract for Demand Management in Urban Water Supply Systems”, EAERE 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 24-27 2009.

Employment
- Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, December 2010—present
- Assistant Professor, IME Department, IIT Kanpur, July 2010—December 2010
- Visiting Faculty, IME Department, IIT Kanpur, December 2009—July 2010

Teaching Experience
- At IIT Kanpur
  - Introduction to Game Theory (IME 636, )
  - Quantitative Models for Decision Making (MBA 651, MBA Core Course)
  - Economic Analysis for Management (MBA 606, MBA Core Course)
- At IIT Madras
  - Business Research Methods (MS 535, MBA Core Course)
  - Microeconomics (MS 511, MBA Core Course)
  - Macroeconomics (MS 501, MBA Core Course)
  - Introduction to Game Theory (MS 354, UG Course)
  - Topics in Decision Theory (MS 721, Graduate Level Course)

At IIT Kanpur
- Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
  - Mr. Trilochan Khambra (completed in 2010)
  - Mr. Desh Deepak (completed in 2011)
  - Mr. Bhopendra Nagar (completed in 2011)
At IIT Madras
- Master of Science (MS by Research)
  - Mr. John Mathew (Submitted)
  - Mr. R. R. Tripathi (ongoing)
  - Ms. S. Aniruda (ongoing)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
  - Mr. K. R. Ramkishore (ongoing)
  - Mr. Vipin B. (ongoing)

“Analysis and Modeling of Repeated Contracts for Supply Chain Coordination”. (IIT Madras New Faculty Seed Grant; Funding: Rs. 5,00,000).
“Simulation of In-Plant Vehicle Traffic and Parking for Gujarat Fluoro Chemicals Limited”. (Client: Trimble Mobility Solutions India Limited; Project Cost: Rs. 2,15,640; co-PI: Dr. Arshinder Kaur).
“Improving Supply Chain Efficiency for Food Security”. (IIT Madras Socially Relevant Project; Funding: Rs. 2,50,000; PI: Dr. Usha Mohan).
“Buyer’s time-preferences in electronic procurement interactions: Effect of situational involvement, and elicitation models”. (ICSSR; Funding: Rs. 5,00,000; PI: Dr. R. P. Sundarraj).
“Coping strategies and coping costs for accessing safe water in Chennai, India”. (SANDEE; Funding: Rs. 11,25,084; co-PI: Dr. S. Subash).

Award and Honours

Received the Academic Senate citation for teaching excellence as an instructor for the course “In troduction to Game Theory” (IME 636) taught during Jan-Apr 2010 at IIT Kanpur.
Awarded as one of the three commendable presentations at the Doctoral Symposium held in conjunction with IISc-IBM Research Third Operations Research and Data Analytics Workshop, Bangalore, March 2008

Agricultural Economics, Economics Bulletin; IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering; Journal of Operational Research Society; OPSEARCH; International Journal of Production Economics; International Game Theory Review; Information Technology and Management.