Research Areas:

The New Institutional Economics; International Business, Corporate Strategy; International Economics; The Theory of the Firm; Emerging Economies 

Current Projects:

Middlemen
Outsourcing
Institutional Corruption
Multinational Investment in Pharmaceutical Industry: Global Division of Labor
Emerging Economy Multinational Firms
Cross Border Mergers
Vertical Integration
Convergence and Divergence

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: 2003-present
Associate Professor, Department of International Economics and Management, Cpenhagen Business School 1999-2003
Fulbright Scholar University of California Berkeley 1998-99
Assistant Professor, Economics, IIM Ahmedabad 1994-1998

Awards:
Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, United Nations University, 1993

Other Professional Appointements:
Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of California at Berkeley September 1998- June 1999
Doctoral researcher at the United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies, Maastricht, the Netherlands, from May 1993 to September 1993
Economist at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, India, from January 1991 to March 1992
Consultant to Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), New Delhi, India, 1992; For CII, a project on 'Competition Policy for Indian Industry' was completed. A conceptual part of this project was published in Economic and Political Weekly, November 28, 1992
Research Associate at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, from September 1983 to January 1991

Distinctions:

Listed among top authors in Law and Economics by Academic Search International with H-Index of 3

Significant Publications:

Books:

- Patibandla, M, Evolution of Markets and Institutions: A Study of an Emerging Economy, Routledge and Taylor and Francis, New York, London,  2006. Reviewed by Lord Meghnad Desai in Economica, 75(298), May 2008. Paper back, 2009.

- Rajesh Kumar and Murali Patibandla (eds) Institutional Dynamics and the Evolution of the Indian Economy Palgrave and MacMillan New York, forthcoming March 2009

Academic Papers:

-Patibandla M 2012, The New Institutional Economics: Its Relevance, Listed and praised by mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com. Listed among top papers by SSRN. Forthcoming in Economic and Political weekly.

-Patibandla M 2012, Foreign Direct Investment in the Retail Industry: Some Issues, Listed among top papers by SSRN. Under review by Economic and Political Weekly.

-Patibandla M and D Sinha, 2012, Policy Reforms and Evolution of Market Structure, under review by the Indian Economic Review.

- Patibandla M, 2012, Dynamics of Joint Ventures, under review with Jindal Journal of Business Research.

-Shaleen Gopal and Murali Patibandla 2011, Evolution of Labor Contracts in India's Software Industry, under review.

- Rafiq Dossani and Murali Patibandla 2010 'Preparing India's Workforce for Knowledge Economy' in   Dimimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Elias G. Carayannis and Rafiq Dossani 'Knowledge  Perspective: a Comparative Approach', Springer Book Series.  

-Rafiq Dossani and Murali Patibandla, 2009 'Technology and Educational Challenges in a Globalizing World- A Case Study of India' in the Handbook of Technology Management

-Patibandla M and A Sanyal, 2009' Corruption: Market Reforms and Technology' in Rajesh Kumar and  M Patibandla, Institutional Dynamics and Evolution of the Indian Economy Palgrave.  

-Patibandla, M, 2007, Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies: A Comparative Analysis of China and India, International Journal of Management and Decision Making.

-Patibandla, M, 2006, Equity Pattern, Corporate Governance and Performance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 59, 29-44. Rated among the top ten papers by the Science Direct.

-Patibandla, M and A. Sanyal, 2005, Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers, Review of Applied Economics, January.

-Patibandla, M and B. Petersen, 2004, Role of Transnational Corporations in the Evolution of a High-Tech Industry: The Case of India's Software Industry- A Reply, World Development, March.

-Patibandla, M and T Sastry, 2004, Capitalism and Cooperation, Economic and Political Weekly, July 3

-Patibandla, M and B. Petersen, 2002, Role of Transnational Corporations in the Evolution of a High-tec Industry: The Case of India's Software Industry, World Development, Sept   30(9). Reprinted in Klaus Meyer 2009 'Multinationals and Host Countries' Edward-Elgar.

-Patibandla, M. 2002, Policy Reforms, and Evolution of Market Structure in an Emerging Economy,  The Journal of Development Studies, February, vol.38, no.3, 95-118.

-Patibandla, M 2002, Product Differentiation and Market Demand for Transnational Corporations in an Emerging Economy, the Indian Economic Journal, January-March.

-Patibandla, M, 2002, Import of Food Products and the Need for High Tariffs, Economic and Political  Weekly, May.

-Patibandla, M, 2002. Foreign Direct Investment in China: A New Perspective, Economic and Political Weekly, November 23.

-Patibandla, M and B.V. Phani 2002, Market Reforms and Industrial Productivity: An Explanation, Economic and Political Weekly, January.

-Ghemawat, P., and M. Patibandla, 2000, India's Exports Since the Reforms: Three Analytic Industry Studies, Political Economy of India's Reforms, edited by Jeffrey Sachs and A. Varshney, N Bajpai, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

-Patibandla, M., Deepak Kapur and Bent Petersen 2000, Import Substitution with Free Trade: the case of India's Software Industry, Economic and Political Weekly, April (This paper was discussed in Foreign Policy, 2000 summer).

-Patibandla, M., and P. Chandra, 1998, Organizational Practices and Employee Performance: The Case of the Canadian Primary Textile Industry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 37(4), 431-442.

-Patibandla, M. 1998, Structure, Organizational Behavior and Technical Efficiency: The Case of an Indian Industry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.  March, 34(3) 419-434.

-Patibandla, M. 1995, Firm Size and Export Behaviour: An Indian Case Study, the Journal of Development Studies, August, Vol.31 No.6.

-Ghemawat, P and M. Patibandla, 1998, India's Exports Since Reforms, Economic and Political Weekly, May 16-22.

-Patibandla, M and R.Prusti, 1998, The East Asian Crisis as a Result of Institutional Failures: Lessons for India, Economic and Political Weekly, February 28-March 6, 469-472.

-Patibandla, M, 1998, Economic Reforms and The Criticality of Institutions: A Few Issues in the Indian Context, paper presented in a conference organized by Indian Merchant Chambers and Times Guarantee, 3 February, Bombay.

-Patibandla, M. 1997, Economic Reforms and Institutions, Economic and Political Weekly, May 24.

 -Patibandla, M. 1996, International Trade and Long Term Economic Growth: A Few Issues of Growth Strategy for India, Economic and Political Weekly, November 30, No .48.

-Patibandla, M. 1996, Exports and Liberalization: A Simple Industrial Organization Approach, the Indian Economic Journal, January-March.

-Patibandla, M. 1994, New Theories of International Trade: A Survey of Literature, the Indian Economic Journal, January-March.

-Patibandla, M. 1994, Economic Policy Reforms in India, Economic and Political Weekly. November 5-12.

-Patibandla, M., and H.K. Amarnath, 1994, An Analysis of Short Run Price Instability of Cotton Yarn, Economic and Political Weekly, August 27.

-Patibandla, M. 1993, Factor and Product Market Distortions, Production Efficiency and International Trade, Economic and Political Weekly, November 27.

-Patibandla, M. 1992, Industrial Decontrol and Competition Policy: A Few Conceptual Issues, Economic and Political Weekly, November 28.

-Patibandla, M. 1992, Scale Economies and Exports in an Import Substituting Regime: Some Observations for Indian Industry, Economic and Political Weekly, Feb. 29.

-Patibandla, M. 1988, Role of Large and Small Firms in India's Engineering Exports, the Industry and Management Review, Economic and Political Weekly, May 28.

Case Studies:

- With Pankaj Ghemawat and William Couglin, 2002, India's Software Industry, Harvard Business School, Case: 9-700-036
- Emerging landscape and New value propositions in the Civil Aviation Sector: In conversation with Captain Gopinath, MD, Air Deccan, IMR Review