Kabir Rahul Vaidya
Email - k.vaidya.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9792-3228
Research title: How Elite Capture leads to Structural Violence and its Economic Implications on Development and Inequality.
Research summary
I am an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of political economy, development, and inequality. My reasech examines the functioning of decentralized democratic institutions, with a particular focus on how democratic systems shape economic and social outcomes.
My primary theoretical framework draws on electoral competition model, I complement this theoretical framework with structural estimation.
Research Interests :
- Microeconomic Theory
- Development Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Political Economy
- Game Theory
- Electoral Competition
- Structural Violence
Grants
COSS (College of Social Science) PhD Scholarship - 2021-2026
Conferences
- APR 2026 - Scottish Economic Soceity (SES) Annual Conference, University of Glasgow
- MAY 2026 - 2nd South West Economics PhD Conference , University of Exeter.
- JUN 2026 - Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual Conference, Newcastle Univeristy.
- AUG 2026 - Econometric Society European Meeting (EEA-ESEM 2026), Dublin, Ireland
Teaching
Academic Year 2022-2023
- ECON 1012 - Introductory Mathematics for Economists (Fall Semester)
- ECON 1013 - Introduction to Statistics for Economists (Winter Semester)
Academic Year 2023-2024
- ECON 1012 - Introductory Mathematics for Economists (Fall Semester)
Academic Year 2024-2025
- ECON 1012 - Introductory Mathematics for Economists (Fall Semester)
- ECON 1001 - Economics 1A (Fall Semester)
- ECON 1002 - Economics 1B (Winter Semester)
- ECON 2002 - Economics 2B (Winter Semester)
- ECON 4032 - Contemporary Issues in Inequality (winter Semester)
Academic Year 2024-2025
- ECON 1001 - Economics 1A (Fall Semester)
- ECON 1002 - Economics 1B (Winter Semester)
- ECON 2002 - Economics 2B (Winter Semester)
- ECON 4032 - Contemporary Issues in Inequality (winter Semester)
