CURRICULUM
VITAE
NAME Maitreesh Ghatak
Contact Details
Department of Economics, London School of Economics, Houghton
Street, London WC2A 2AE, U.K, Telephone: (44) 207 852 3568, Email: m.ghatak@lse.ac.uk.
Field/Area of specialisation Development
Economics, Organizational Economics, Public Economics
Education and Degrees
1996, PhD in Economics, Harvard University.
1991, MA in Economics, Delhi School of Economics,
University of Delhi, First Class First.
1989, BSc in Economics, Presidency College, University
of Calcutta, First Class First.
Principal Current Position
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics,
London School of Economics (2004-present)
Principal Previous Positions
Reader in Economics, Department of Economics, London
School of Economics (2002-2004)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of
Economics, University of Chicago (1996-2002)
Honours & Awards
Fellow of the British Academy, 2018 (Member of Standing Committee, 2020
– 2023)
Fellow of the International Economic Association, 2021
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton,
2000-01.
Editorship
Co-Editor (2016 - present) Economica.
Co-Editor (2022 – present) Ideas for India
Editor in Chief (2009-2015) Journal of Development
Economics.
Managing Editor (2003-2006) Review of Economic
Studies.
Co-editor (2003-2005) Economics of Transition.
Co-Editor (2008 –2009): Journal of
Development Economics.
Member of Editorial Board (2002-2011): Review of
Economic Studies
Associate Editor (2009-2012): Journal of
Comparative Economics
Associate Editor (1998-2004): Economica
Other Positions
PhD Programme Director, Department of Economics (2022
– present)
Director (2005 – present): Development Economics (DE)
programme, STICERD, LSE
Member, School Promotions Committee (2020 - 2022)
Deputy Head of Department of Economics, Research, LSE
(2016-2019)
Member of Departmental REF Committee
(2016 - present), LSE
Research Programme Director - IGC India (2008 - 2016)
South Asia Centre, LSE, Faculty Advisory Group
(2016-2018)
Management Committee, Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social
Entrepreneurship, LSE (2017-present)
Member of School REF Strategy
Committee, LSE, 2013-14
Chair of Junior Recruitment, LSE, 2011-12
Chair of Placement, LSE, 2003-07
Professional Activities
British
Science Association - Economics Section, President, 2022.
Member,
US Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation Economic Advisory Council,
2023-24
Research
Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK
Member,
India Policy Forum Research Panel, NCAER, India & Brookings, Washington
D.C.
Advisory
Panel, Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy, IIM-Ahmedabad
Honorary Adjunct Professor, Indian Statistical
Institute (2013 - 2018).
Distinguished Visitor: Indian School of Business,
Hyderabad (2013 - 2018).
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of
Development (B.R.E.A.D.) : Senior Fellow (since inception in 2002), Board
Member (2008-2018), Member of Executive Council (2011 - 2017)
Research Fellow: Centre for Economic Policy
Research (C.E.P.R.), Programmes in Development Economics (DE), Macroeconomics
and Growth (MG), and Public Economics (PE)
Lead Economist (2010 - 2017): International Growth
Centre, India: Bihar Programme.
External Member (2013-2016): World Bank Research
Committee.
Research Associate (2017 - ): Research network on
Economic Research on Identity, Norms and Narratives (ERINN).
Member (2016 -
): Economic Development and Institutions (EDI) Network, University of Namur and Paris School of Economics.
External Visiting Professor (2010 – Present): Centre
of Research in the Economics of Development, University of Namur.
Research Associate: The Centre on Competitive
Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), Warwick University.
Research Network Initiatives
Co-Founder and Member of Organizing Committee (2016 -
) : Annual Conference on Economics of Social Sector Organizations, joint
initiative of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Booth School of Business,
University of Chicago and the Marshall Institute, LSE.
Co-founder and Core Member (2011 - ): Theoretical
Research in Development (ThReD).
Co-founder and Core Member (2010 - ): Non-profits,
Governments, and Organizations (NGO) research network.
Fellowships & Invited
Short-Term Visiting Positions
Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, and
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Oxford University (January-March, 2020).
Visiting Professor, Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad, August 2019.
Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Department of Economics, December 2016.
Honorary Visiting Professor, Presidency University,
Kolkata, August 2016
Visiting Professor, Stanford University: Stanford
Centre for International Development, February 2016.
Social Enterprise Initiative Visiting Fellow:
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, March 2015.
Visiting Professor, CTRPFP Programme: Centre for
Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Jan-Feb 2015
Visiting Professor: MIT, May 2012
Visiting Professor: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
January–April 2008
Visiting Professor: Yale University, April 2007.
Visiting Scientist: Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata, July-August 2006.
Visiting Fellow: International/Development
Visitor Program, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, March 2004.
Bhabatosh Datta
Visiting Fellow: Center for Studies in Social
Sciences, Calcutta, May-July 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor: London School of
Economics, January-March 1999.
Post-Doctoral Fellow: STICERD, London School of
Economics, July-September 1996
Grants
DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme (DEGRP) Large
Grant ES/L012103/1: Micro-credit, financial access
and growth, (with T. Besley and K. Burchardi), 2014-2018.
International Growth Centre (IGC) Grant: Cash
Transfer Versus In-Kind Transfers: A Conceptual Framework & Preliminary
Evidence from Bihar, 2012.
STICERD Grant “Regulating Microfinance: Theory and
Policy in Light of the Indian Crisis”, 2012.
International Growth Centre (IGC) Grant
(RST-U145): Land Acquisition for Business and Compensation of Displaced
Farmers, 2019-2012
STICERD Grant “Beyond Joint Liability: Topics in
Microfinance”, 2010.
Microsoft Corporation Grant “Motivation and Incentives
in Organizations”, 2007-2009.
ESRC Large Grant RES-000-23-0717 “Competition and
Incentives in Public Service Provision” (with T. Besley) 2004-06.
University of Chicago, Social Science Division Dean's
Research Grant, 2001-02.
Mellon Cultural Training and Research Grant for field
survey in West Bengal, 1999, University of Chicago.
The Simon
Kuznets Award, 1993, Harvard University
Invited Special Lectures
R.C.
Dutt Memorial Lecture, Centre of Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
Foundation
Day Lecture, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
Presentation
on “Direct Transfer Policies for the Poor” in the Kautilya Conclave: “Redefining the
Future”, Organized by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and the
Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi, July 2022.
Invited
Lecturer, Advanced Graduate Workshop on Globalization, Development and Poverty,
Azim Premji University, Bangalore, July 2022, 2023.
Eighth
Golden Jubilee Lecture "On the Design on Anti-Poverty Policies",
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, May 2022.
Eminent
Speaker Series, Ashoka University, March 2021
Inspiration Lecture Series, O. P. Jindal Global
University, September 2020.
N.
K. Majumdar Memorial Lecture, Presidency University, Calcutta, December 2019
Special
Lecture, Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Jadavpur
University, Calcutta, December, 2019.
Public
Lecture, JSW School of Public Policy IIM-Ahmedabad, August,
2019.
D.T. Lakdawala
Memorial Lecture, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, August 2019.
Inaugural Lecture,
ICG Annual Lectures, International Centre, Goa, April 2019.
Fifth Prof Suresh
Tendulkar Memorial Lecture, Symbiosis International University, Pune, August
2018
Keynote speaker,
Conference on "New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical
Economics", Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, August 2018
Plenary Speaker, The
Micro and Macro Foundations of Conflict, January 19-20 (Fri-Sat), 2018;
University of Bath, UK
Invited speaker,
conference on "Political Economy Issues in Public Policy related to the
Indian Economy", University of Mumbai, December 2017
Seventh B.G. Kumar
Memorial Lecture, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, March 23, 2016.
Invited Speaker, 24th
Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Jadavpur
University, India, December 2015.
Keynote Speaker, 2015
RCEA Growth and Development Workshop, Rimini, Italy, May 2015.
Keynote Speaker,
Workshop on Economic Growth in West Bengal, Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, December 27, 2014.
Invited Speaker, 23rd
Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Jadavpur
University, India, December 2014.
Keynote Speaker,
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics: The Role of Theory in
Development Economics, Washington DC, June 2014.
Keynote Speaker, The
Impact of Institutions and Regulation on Public Services Conference, University
of Bristol, Bristol, June 2014.
Fudan-HSBC Lectures,
Fudan University, Shanghai, March 2014.
Keynote Lecture, The
Fourth Annual Conference on the Chinese Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai,
December 2013.
Plenary Lecture, 9th
Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical
Institute, Delhi, December 2013.
Plenary Lecture,
Conference on Empirical Issues in International Trade and Finance, Indian
Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, January 11, 2013.
Plenary Lecture,
Workshop on Economic Growth in West Bengal, Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, January 8, 2013.
The Fourth Dipak
Banerjee Annual Memorial Lecture, Presidency College, Calcutta, January 6,
2011.
Plenary Lecture,
International Growth Centre (IGC), India-Bihar Conference, Patna, December
2010.
Public Lecture,
Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and Bangalore University,
Bangalore, September 2, 2010.
Invited Lecture
Series, Winter School, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, December 2008.
Plenary Lecture,
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, Bled, Slovenia, May
2007.
Research Publications
Refereed Publications
1. Why do People
Stay Poor? (with C. Balboni, O. Bandiera, R. Burgess, and J.A. Heil). Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Volume 137, Issue 2, Pages 785–844, May 2022.
2. Motivating
Information Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance? (with E. Berg,
R. Manjula, D. Rajasekhar, S. Roy). Economic Journal, Volume 129,
Issue 617, pp 110–142, 2019.
3. Commercialization
and the Decline of Joint Liability Microcredit, (with J. de Quidt, T.
Fetzer), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 10, pp 411-438, 2018.
4. Market
Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance, (with J. de Quidt, T.
Fetzer), Economic Journal, Volume128, Issue 610, May 2018, Pages 1019-1046.
5. Profit with
Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise, (with Tim Besley). American Economic
Journal - Economic Policy. Vol. 9, No.3, 2017, Pages 19-58.
6. Credit Market
Frictions and Political Failure (with Madhav Aney and
Masismo Morelli). Journal of Monetary Economics,
Volume 81, August 2016, Pages 48–64.
7. Group Lending
without Joint Liability, (with J. de Quidt, T. Fetzer). Journal of
Development Economics. Volume 121, July 2016, Pages 217-236.
8. Land
Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers, (with
D. Mookherjee). Journal of Development Economics, Volume 110, Pages 239-249,
September 2014.
9. Contractual
Structure in Agriculture with Endogenous Matching, (with Alexander
Karaivanov), Journal
of Development Economics,
Volume 110, Pages 303-312, September 2014.
10. Marry for
What? Partner Selection in Modern India, (with A.V. Banerjee, E. Duflo, J. Lafortune). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
5 2: 33-72, 2013.
11. Trade and the
Allocation of Talent with Capital Market Imperfections, (with R. Bonfatti). Journal
of International Economics, 89 1: 187-201, 2013.
12. Incentives and
the de Soto Effect, ((with T. Besley, K. Burchardi). Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 127 1: 237-282, 2012.
13. Thanks for
Nothing? Welfare Effects of Not-for-Profits with Endogenous Matching, (with H.
Mueller). Journal of Public Economics, 95 1-2: 94-105, 2011.
14. Entrepreneurial
Talent, Occupational Choice, and Trickle Up Policies, (with M. Morelli, T.
Sjostrom). Journal of Economic Theory, 137 1: 27-48, 2007.
[Reprinted in Parker, Simon C (2011). Entrepreneurship in Recession. Edward
Elgar, Cheltenham].
15. Wealth
Inequality and Collective Action, (with P. Bardhan and A. Karaivanov). Journal
of Public Economics, 91 9: 1843–1874, 2007.
16. Retailing
Public Goods: The Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility, (with T.
Besley). Journal of Public Economics, 91 9: 1645–1663, 2007.
[Lead article] [Reprinted in Markets and
Morals: Ethical Issues in Economics, Volume 14, Part 3 of History of science,
philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization, Editor Ashok S. Guha, Project
of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Centre for Studies in
Civilizations, 2011]
17. Subcontractors
for Tractors: Asset Specificity and Contracting in a Manufacturer-Supplier
Network, (with T. Andrabi, A. Khwaja). Journal of Development
Economics, 79 2: 273-492, 2006. [Lead
article]
18. Competition
and Incentives with Motivated Agents, (with T. Besley). American Economic
Review, 95 3: 616-636, 2005
19. Joint
Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect, (with S. Gangopadhyay and R.
Lensink). Economic Journal, 115 506: 1005-1115, 2005.
20. Eviction
Threats and Investment Incentives, (with A.V. Banerjee). Journal of
Development Economics, 74 2: 469-488, 2004.
21. Can Unobserved
Heterogeneity in Farmer Ability Explain the Inverse Relationship between Farm
Size and Productivity? (with J. Assuncao). Economics Letters, 80 2:
189-194, 2003.
22. Empowerment
and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, (with A.V. Banerjee and P.
Gertler). Journal of Political Economy, 110 2: 239-280, 2002. [Lead article]
23. A Simple Model
of Inequality, Occupational Choice and Development,
(with N. Jiang). Journal of Development Economics, 69 1: 205-226, 2001.
24. Government
versus Private Ownership of Public Goods, (with T. Besley). Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 116 4: 1343 – 1372, 2001.
25. Occupational
Choice and Dynamic Incentives, (with M. Morelli, T. Sjostrom). Review of
Economic Studies, 68 4: 781-810, 2001.
26. Financially
Interlinked Business Groups, (with R. Kali). Journal of Economics and
Management Strategy. 10 4: 591-619, 2001.
27. Contract
Choice in Agriculture with Joint Moral Hazard in Effort and Risk, (with P.
Pandey). Journal of Development Economics, 63 2: 303-326, 2000.
28. Screening by
the Company You Keep: Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect. Economic
Journal, 110 465: 601-631, 2000.
29. The Economics
of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice, (with T. Guinnane). Journal
of Development Economics, 60 1: 195-228, 1999. [Reprinted
in Readings in the Theory of Economic Development (ed.s)
D. Mookherjee and D. Ray, London: Blackwell (2000)]
30. Group Lending,
Local Information and Peer Selection. Journal of Development Economics,
60 1: 27-50, 1999.
Other Academic Publications
1. Revisiting the
Eswaran-Kotwal Model of Tenancy (with Dilip Mookherjee), Working Paper, Last
Revised September 2023. Forthcoming in the Special Issue of Studies in
Microeconomics in Memory of Ashok Kotwal.
2. Direct Transfer Policies
for the Poor, Working Paper, Last Revised November 2023. Forthcoming in Journal of Social and
Economic Development.
3. Acquiring Land from
Traditional Communities: Bottlenecks, Misallocation, and Second-Best
Considerations (with Dilip Mookherjee), Oxford Open Economics, 2023, 2, 1–5.
4. Inequality and Identity
Salience, (with Thierry Verdier). Indian Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 58 (Suppl
1), pp.
181–191.
5. Trends in Economic
Inequality in India, (with Ramya Raghavan and Linchuan
Xu) The India Forum, September 19, 2022.
6. The COVID-19 Shock and the
Indian Economy—A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis (with Ramya Raghavan), Chapter 3 in
Dutta, M., Husain, Z., Sinha, A.K. (eds) The Impact of COVID-19 on India and
the Global Order. Springer, Singapore.
7. Economic Theories of the
Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise. LSE Public Policy
Review. 2021; 1(3): 2, pp. 1–9.
8. Is Funding a Large
Universal Basic Income Feasible? A Quantitative Analysis of UBI with Endogenous
Labour Supply” (with Xavier Jaravel), LSE Public
Policy Review, 1(2): 3, pp. 1–11. 2020
9. What Would Make India’s
Growth Sustainable?” (with Ashok Kotwal and Bharat Ramaswami), The India Forum, August
15, 2020.
10. The Twin
Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them” (with Ananda Lal Roy), The India
Forum, April 28, 2020, reprinted in India and the Pandemic: The First
Year, Essays from The India Forum, Orient BlackSwan,
2020.
11. An Inclusive Growth Dividend:
Reframing the Role of Income Transfers in India’s Anti-Poverty Strategy, India
Policy Forum 2019, Volume 16 (ed.s) Shekhar Shah,
Barry Bosworth, and Karthik Muralidharan. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2021.
12. "Property
Rights and Productivity of Resource Allocation in Developing Countries",
in Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle and Eric
Verhoogen (ed.s) Development, Distribution, and
Markets - Essays in Honour of Pranab Bardhan, Oxford University Press,
2021.
13. Growth and the
Subsidy-Raj in India: Re-examining the Bardhan Hypothesis, (with Ritwika Sen),
Chapter 4 in Elizabeth Chatterjee and Matthew McCartney (ed.s)
Class and Conflict – Revisiting Pranab Bardhan’s Political Economy of
Development in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020.
14. Economic Theories of the
Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise, Chapter 13 in Walter W.
Powell and Patricia Bromley (ed.s)
The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook,
3rd edition, Stanford University Press, 2020.
15. Universal Basic Income
Proposal - Some Theoretical Aspects with
François Maniquet). Annual Review of
Economics, 11:895–928, 2019.
16. “Social Protection”
and “Land Market Reforms” in Abhijit Banerjee, Gita Gopinath, Raghuram Rajan
and Mihir S. Sharma (ed.s) What the Economy Needs Now, New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2019.
17. Measures of
Development—Concepts, Causality, and Context, in P. Ray, R. Sarkar, and A. Sen
(ed.s) Economics,
Management and Sustainability - Essays in Honour of Anup Sinha, Singapore:
Springer, 2018.
18. Pro-social
Motivation and Incentives, (with Tim Besley), Annual Review of Economics,
Volume 10, pp 411-438, 2018.
19. Is the credit worth it? For-profit Lenders in
microfinance with rational and behavioral borrowers
(with Jon de Quidt), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume
89, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 175-199.
20. Economic
determinants of the Maoist Conflict in India, (with Oliver Van den Eynde). Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol.
52, Issue No. 39, September 30, 2017.
21. Persistence of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies, in The Economics of Poverty Traps, ed.s C. Barrett, M. Carter, and J.-P. Chavas, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
22. Public-Private
Partnership for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to
NGOs (with Tim Besley). Research in Economics, 71 (2): 356-371, June
2017.
23. Cash versus
Kind: Understanding the Preferences of the Bicycle-Programme Beneficiaries in
Bihar, (with Chinmaya Kumar and Sandip Mitra), Economic and Political Weekly
of India, Vol. 51, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2016, p. 51-60.
24. Theories of
Poverty Traps and Anti-Poverty Policies, World Bank Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings of the ABCDE, Vol 29 (Supplement 1):
S77-S105, August 2015.
25. Two States: A
Comparative Analysis of Gujarat and Bihar’s Growth Performance Between
1981-2011 (with Sanchari Roy), India Review, Special Issue on India’s
Economy: Growth, Governance, and Reform, ed. N. Singh, Volume 14, Issue 1,
Pages 26-42, 2015.
26. Land
Acquisition and Compensation in Singur: What Really Happened? (with S. Mitra,
D. Mookherjee, A. Nath). Economic and Political Weekly of India, 48 21:
32-44, 2014.
27. Did Gujarat
Switch to a Higher Growth Trajectory Relative To India
under Modi? A Rejoinder (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political Weekly of
India, May 3, 2014.
28. Growth in the
time of UPA: Myths and Reality (with Parikshit Ghosh & Ashok
Kotwal), Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 19, 2014.
(Reprinted in Economic Growth and its Distribution in India (ed.s) Pulapre Balakrishnan,
Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015.)
29. Did Gujarat’s
Growth Rate Accelerate under Modi? (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political
Weekly of India, April 12, 2014.
30. Bailouts and
the Optimal Taxation of Bonus Pay, (with T. Besley). American Economic
Review, Papers and Proceedings, 103 3: 163–167,
2013.
31. The Land
Acquisition Bill: A Critique and a Proposal, (with P. Ghosh). Economic and
Political Weekly of India, 46 41: 65-72, 2011.
32. Implementing
Health Insurance: The Rollout of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Karnataka, (with R. Durgam, E.
Berg, R. Manjula, S. Roy). Economic and Political Weekly of India, 46
20: 56-63, 2011.
33. Spanning the
Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research, (with G. Fischer).
In The Handbook of Microfinance (ed B. Armendáriz,
M. Labie). Singapore: World Scientific, 59-71, 2011.
34. Property
Rights and Economic Development, (with T. Besley). In The Handbook of
Development Economics Volume V (ed D. Rodrik, M. Rosenzweig). The
Netherlands: North-Holland, 4525-4595, 2010.
35. Status
Incentives, (with T. Besley). American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 98 2: 206-211, 2008.
36. Reforming
Public Service Delivery, (with T. Besley). Journal of African Economics,
16 1: 127-156, 2007.
37. Land Reform
and Agricultural Productivity in India: A Review of the Evidence, (with S.
Roy). Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23 2: 251-269, 2007.
38. Land Reform.
In The Oxford Companion to Economics in India (ed K. Basu). New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 328-332, 2007.
39. Sorting with Motivated
Agents: Implications for School Competition and Teacher Incentives, (with T.
Besley). Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 4 2–3:404–414, 2006.
40. Public Goods
and Economic Development, (with T. Besley). In Understanding Poverty (ed
A.V. Banerjee, R. Benabou, D. Mookherjee), New York:
Oxford University Press, 285-302, 2006.
41. Inequality and
Collective Action, (with P. Bardhan, A. Karaivanov). In Economic Inequality,
Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability (ed P. Bardhan, S.
Bowles, J. M. Baland). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 36-59, 2006.
42. Who should
provide public goods? A Perspective from the Theory of Organizations? In Development,
Displacement and Disparity - India in the Last Quarter of the Century (ed
S. Marjit, N. Banerjee). New Delhi: Orient Longman, 98-138, 2005.
43. Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations, (with T. Besley).
In Organizational Encounters with Risk (ed B. Hutter, M. Power).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 149-166, 2005.
44. Incentives and
Accountability in the Provision of Public Services, (with T. Besley). Oxford
Review of Economic Policy, 19 2: 235-249, 2003.
45. Recent Reforms
in the Panchayat System in West Bengal: Toward Greater Participatory
Governance? (with M. Ghatak). Economic and Political Weekly of India, 37
1: 45-58, 2002. Reprinted in Decentralisation: Institutions and Politics in
Rural India (ed.s) Satyajit Singh and Pradeep K.
Sharma, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
46. Diversified Business Groups in Emerging Economies, (with R. Kali). Money and Finance, 2 4: 20-31, 2000.
Working Papers
1.
Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities:
Theory and Experimental Evidence from India (with Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg,
and Antonella Bancalari), Submitted.
2.
Motivational Investments and Financial Incentives
(with Z. Wahhaj), Revise and resubmit.
3.
Estimating poverty in India in the absence of NSS
consumption expenditure data (with Rishabh Kumar).
4.
The Role of Finance in the Process of Development:
Improving Access versus Reducing Frictions, (with T. Besley and K. Burchardi).
Working Paper. Latest version: April 2021.
5.
The Evolution of Motivation, (with T. Besley). Working
Paper. January 2023.
6.
Markets
and Values: Cultural Evolution and Intrinsic Motivation, (with Tim Besley).
Latest version: February 2016.
7.
Should all voluntary exchanges be legal? Latest
version: September 2, 2014
8.
Repayment Frequency and Lending Contracts with
Present-Biased Borrowers, (with Greg Fischer). Working Paper. Last Revised:
September
2016.
Work
In Progress
2. Inequality Traps
in Convex and Convexified Economies (with Andrew F. Newman).
3. The Large
Effects of Vanishingly Small Bias (with Debraj Ray).
4. Can Taste for
Discrimination Persist in Competitive Markets? (with Zaki Wahhaj).
5. Non-homothetic
Preferences and Persistent Inequality: A Dynamic Model (with Linchuan Xu).
6.
Mobility
and the Allocation of Talent (with Amartya Lahiri and Ramya Raghavan)
7. Quantity vs
Quality : Examining the State of the Indian Labour Market (with Mrinalini Jha
and Jitendra Singh).
8. Design of
Surveys in the Presence of Budget Constraints (with Rohit Lamba).
9. Sustainable
Investment (with Tim Besley).
10. Revisiting the Effect of
Operation Barga on Agricultural Productivity in West Bengal Using New Yield
Data (with Sanchari Roy).
11. Relaxing
Credit and Tenure Security Constraints: Credit and Land Titling in Uganda (with
Markus Goldstein, James Habyarimana, Joao Montalvao, Michael O’Sullivan,
Christopher Udry).
12. The Welfare
Effects of Informal Finance (with T. Besley and K. Burchardi).
13. Missing Markets and
Backward Bending Supply Curve of Land, (with Madhav Aney
and Sanjay Banerji).
14. Regulating Asset Sales:
Mandating Golden Parachutes? (with Dilip Mookherjee).
Older
Working Papers
1.
Reputation, Information Externalities, and
Discrimination, Version: September 2014.
2.
Solving Agency Problems: Intrinsic Motivation,
Incentives, and Productivity (with Tim Besley). Background paper for the World
Development Report 2015. Last Revised: January 2014.
3. Microfinance,
Market Structure, and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance: Regulatory Lessons from
the Indian Crisis (with Jon de Quidt and Thiemo Fetzer), Working Paper, March
2012.
4. Gun Control
and the Self Defense Argument, Version: January 2001
5. Taxation and
Regulation of Bonus Pay, (with Tim Besley). C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper No. 8532,
2011
6. Credit
Rationing, Wealth Inequality, and Allocation of Talent, (with Massimo Morelli
and Tomas Sjostrom). STICERD Theoretical Economics Discussion Paper
TE/2002/441, 2002.
Selected
Essays
1. The simmering debate over
poverty rate, Mint, May 4, 2023
2. Estimation of poverty in
India, Introduction to an e-Symposium for Ideas for India, October 10,
2022
3. A simple
realistic solution to the paywall problem, Hindustan Times, May 27,
2022.
4. How has
Covid-19 affected India’s economy? Economics Observatory, June 30, 2021.
5. India's
Inequality Problem, The India Forum, July 2, 2021.
6. The real
problem is of unequal opportunities, Forbes India, 12th Anniversary
Special Issue, May 21, 2021.
7. 2021 West
Bengal Assembly election: Did the Covid-19 surge matter? Ideas for India,
May 12, 2021.
8. West Bengal’s
economic performance relative to India over the last three decades, Ideas
for India, May 1, 2021.
9. Relentlessly
pursuing growth can uproot the tree that bears us fruit, The Economic Times,
December 23, 2020.
10. Comparing
Rishi Sunak's Plan for the UK To India's Steps to Deal with the Covid-19
Crisis, in NDTV.com, July 20, 2020.
11. A blueprint to
protect labour rights without constraining capital, Hindustan Times,
July 4, 2020.
12. The World
Health Organization: A GRID for reform, in VoxEU.org, May 30, 2020.
13. The Twin
Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them, The India Forum, April 28,
2020.
14. The World Has
a $2.5 Trillion Problem. Here’s How to Solve It. The New York Times,
April 20, 2020.
15. Coronavirus
Will Upend the 'Profits Over People' Mantra of Globalisation, The Wire,
April 4, 2020.
16. Vital
additions to empirical research, The Hindu, October 18, 2019.
17. What Lies
Behind Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel, The Open, October 17, 2019.
18. Why Do We
Insist on Debating Politics with Our Friends and Family? The Wire, May
22, 2019.
19. Not long-term
solution to poverty but useful ‘first-aid’, NYAY e-Symposium, Ideas for India,
May 1, 2019.
20. Poverty and
Inequality in a ‘Principles of Economics’ Textbook, Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol. 53, Issue No. 24, 16 Jun, 2018
21. Pricing Social
Returns in Economic Growth, Business Standard, October 19, 2018.
22. With Thaler’s
Nobel Win, Behavioural Economics Has Officially Made Its Way into the
Mainstream, The Wire, October 13, 2017.
23. India Needs to
Create Greater Economic Opportunities for all, The Economic Times,
October 9, 2017.
24. Combating
poverty in developing countries with a universal basic income, VoxDev.org,
July 17, 2017
25. Nobel Prize in Economics
2016: The Economy as a Nexus of Contracts. Ideas for India, October 20,
2016.
26. Is India ready for a
universal basic income scheme? Ideas for India, September 2, 2016.
27. Angus Deaton - The Real World Economist. The Indian Express, October 16,
2015
28. Moving beyond the growth-versus-redistribution
debate. Ideas for India, August 14, 2015.
29. Yes, a Land Acquisition Act
Can Address Both Justice and Prosperity (with Parikshit Ghosh). The Wire,
June 1, 2015.
30. Mirror, mirror
on the wall, which is the most dynamic state of them all? (with Sanchari Roy), Ideas for India, March 23, 2014
31.
Beyond
Nandigram: Industrialization in West Bengal (with A.V. Banerjee et al). Economic
and Political Weekly of India, April 28, 2007.
32.
Strategy
for Economic Reform in West Bengal (with A.V. Banerjee et al). Economic and
Political Weekly of India, October 12, 2002.
The
complete list of essays and op-eds with links available at:
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ghatak/essay.html
Media
Regular columnist, NDTV.com, The Hindustan
Times
Regular contributor, Anandabazar
Patrika (Bengali), The India Forum, The Wire
Regular contributor and Co-Editor, Ideas for India
Founding contributor, VoxDev.Org
Occasional contributor: The New York Times, VoxEU.org,
The Guardian, The Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindu, The Economic
Times, Scroll.in, The Open, Business Standard, The Print, The Outlook, Mint,
The Financial Express, The Tribune, The Telegraph, DNA.
Completed Theses Supervised
Principal Advisor to: Jay Lee
(Assistant Professor, University of Stockholm), Claudio Schilter (Postdoctoral
Fellow, University of Zurich), Munir Squires (University of British Columbia,
Assistant Professor), Rocco Macchiavello (Professor of Economics, Warwick
; Post-doc, Nuffield College, Oxford), Masayuki Kudamatsu
(Assistant Professor, IIES, Stockholm), Emmanuel Frot
(Assistant Professor, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics), Paolo Masella
(Assistant Professor, University of Sussex), Sanchari Roy (Assistant Professor,
University of Sussex), Konrad Burchardi (Assistant Professor, IIES, Stockholm),
Selim Gulesci (Assistant Professor, Bocconi), Erlend
Berg (Lecturer, University of Bristol), Madhav Aney
(Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University), Giacomo Rodano (Bank
of Italy), Hannes Mueller (Post-Doc IAE-CSIC, Barcelona),
Anett Hoffman (Assistant Professor, CREST-ENSAE, Paris), Thiemo
Fetzer (Assistant Professor, Warwick), Jonathan de Quidt (Assistant Professor,
IIES, Stockholm), Neville Nien-Huei Jiang (Assistant Professor,
Vanderbilt University).
Member of
Thesis Committee: Christian Ahlin (Professor, Michigan State; Assistant
Professor, Vanderbilt University), Xavier Gine (World Bank), Hyeok Jeong
(Assistant Professor, University of Southern California), Alexander Karaivanov
(Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University), Priyanka Pandey (Assistant
Professor, Penn State), Kenichi Ueda (I.M.F.), Ankur Vora (Boston Consulting
Group), Kumar Aniket (Lecturer, Murray Edwards & Newnham College,
University of Cambridge), Fernando Aragon (Simon Fraser, Assistant Professor).