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Professor Neelam Jain is a faculty member at City St George's, University of London, where she holds the position of Professor in the Department of Economics within the College of Business. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1995 and has previously taught at the University of Virginia, Rice University, and the University of Auckland.
Her research lies at the intersection of microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, and financial economics. Key areas of interest include asymmetric information, financial intermediation, entry deterrence, managerial incentives, and dynamic contracting. She has made significant contributions to econometric methodology, particularly in demand estimation without instrumental variables.
Her recent publications show a strong trend in empirical and theoretical work on differentiated products models, Bayesian estimation of dynamic discrete choice, and the role of debt and information in corporate finance. Her work frequently appears in top-tier journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Academy of Management Journal, and International Journal of Industrial Organization.
- Instrument-free identification and estimation of differentiated products models using cost data (Journal of Econometrics, 2022)
- Bayesian estimation of dynamic discrete choice models (Econometrica, 2009)
- Innovation, Appropriability, and the Underpricing of IPOs (Academy of Management Journal, 2007)
She served on the editorial board of Studies in Microeconomics from 2016 to 2018. Professor Jain has advised on various aspects of managerial compensation, learning under uncertainty, and the strategic use of debt. Her work combines rigorous theoretical modeling with empirical applications, particularly in banking and industrial markets.
