Sacha Kapoor
Associate Professor of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam


Research


Publications

Does exposure to losses intensify loss aversion? Evidence from a competitive industry

(December 2025, joint with Julian Emami-Namini, Forthcoming, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty)  


Regionalism and Tribal Insecurity in India

(joint with Arvind Magesan) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, Vol. 73, Issue 3. 

Invited Summary: India Spend, Ideas for India

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Add-On Pricing over Regional Business Cycles: Evidence from Extended Warranties 

(joint with Branko Boskovic and Agnieszka Markiewicz and Barry Scholnick) International Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 65, Issue 4, pp. 2019-2046.

The Price of Forced Attendance

(joint with Matthijs Oosterveen and Dinand Webbink) Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 209-227.

 

Inefficient Incentives and Nonprice Allocations: Experimental Evidence from Big-Box Restaurants

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp. 401-419.

 

Having it Easy: Discrimination and Specialization in the Workplace

(joint with Arvind Magesan) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, Vol. 166, pp. 153-173. 

 

Independent Candidates and Political Representation in India

(joint with Arvind Magesan) American Political Science Review, 2018, Vol. 112, Issue 3, pp. 678-697. 

Media Coverage in Print: Livemint

Invited Summary: Ideas for India

 

Paging Inspector Sands: The Costs of Public Information

Online Appendix

(joint with Arvind Magesan) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 92-113.

Media Coverage in Print:Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star

Media Coverage in Print and on TV: City, CTV, Global, CBC

Blogs: Marginal Revolution, The Undercover Economist (also found at Financial Times Magazine)                          

Radio: NPR

Invited Summary: LSE US Politics and Policy

 

Working Papers

Are markets loss averse? Theory and evidence from a competitive industry

(Feb 2025, joint with Julian Emami-Namini, In preparation for submission)  
Does loss aversion predict firm survival?
(Dec 2025, joint with Julian Emami-Namini, Submitted)

These two working papers and our working paper on whether losses intensify loss aversion are a split of our previous working paper:

Are firms loss averse? Are markets? Theory and evidence from a competitive industry

(Dec 2024, joint with Julian Emami-Namini)  


Can Teachers and Machines Predict the Long-Run Academic
Performance of Young Children?
(Nov 2025, joint with Max Coveney and Dinand Webbink).


Discrimination in Firing (Nov 2025, joint with Jan Kabatek and Sander Kraaij and Dinand Webbink).

The returns to migration with multiple destinations (Nov 2025, joint with Fatma Palut and Dinand Webbink)


The effects of economic sanctions on political unrest (slides, do not cite, preliminary and incomplete)

(June 2024, joint with Julian Emami-Namini and Aksel Erbahar)