Maitreesh Ghatak

Maitreesh Ghatak

Professor of Economics

Director, Development Programme, STICERD

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Welcome to my website. My areas of interest are development economics, economics of contracts and organizations, and public economics, but they spill over to several other areas of applied theory, applied micro, labour economics, growth and macro development, and public policy. I also write extensively on issues relating to the Indian economy.

I have been at the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for more than two decades. Earlier I was in the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago after completing my PhD from Harvard University. I am an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, an elected Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the International Economic Association, and Research Fellow at research networks such as CEPR, BREAD, IFS, CAGE, the India Policy Forum, and a founder member of ThReD, a research network of theoretical research in development economics. I am an editor of Economica, having served in the past as editors of the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Development Economics.

In addition to my academic work, I write regularly on economic, political, cultural, and policy issues for a broader audience in various newspapers, magazines, and blogs in both English and my native language, Bengali.

Below you will find a link to CV, my brief bio, research publications, working papers, slides from recent talks, and all my non-academic writings.

CV (pdf , html)

Bio