Dr. Debdatta Pal is an Associate Professor in the Economics and Business Environment area at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. Dr. Pal has served Indian Bank, IIM Indore and IIM Raipur before joining IIM Lucknow. He conducts empirical research in energy economics, agricultural economics, choice modelling, and public choice. His research has been published in World Development, Public Choice, Energy Economics, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, Journal of Policy Modeling, Transportation Research Part A, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Choice Modelling.