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.
1989, BSc in Economics, Presidency College, University
of Calcutta
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
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton,
2000-01.
Journal Editorship
Co-Editor (2016 - present) Economica.
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
Deputy Head of Department of Economics, Research, LSE
(2016-2019)
Member of Departmental REF Committee
(2016 - present), LSE
Director (2005 – present): Development Economics (DE) programme,
STICERD, 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 Affiliations
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-present), 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
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. 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.
2. Commercialization
and the Decline of Joint Liability Microcredit, (with J. de Quidt, T.
Fetzer), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 10, pp 411-438, 2018.
3. Market
Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance, (with J. de Quidt, T.
Fetzer). Volume128, Issue 610, May 2018, Pages 1019-1046, Economic Journal.
4. Profit with
Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise, (with Tim Besley). American Economic
Journal - Economic Policy. Vol. 9, No.3, 2017, Pages 19-58.
5. Credit Market
Frictions and Political Failure (with Madhav Aney and
Masismo Morelli). Journal of Monetary Economics,
Volume 81, August 2016, Pages 48–64.
6. Group Lending
without Joint Liability, (with J. de Quidt, T. Fetzer). Journal of
Development Economics. Volume 121, July 2016, Pages 217-236.
7. Land
Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers, (with
D. Mookherjee). Journal of Development Economics, Volume 110, Pages 239-249,
September 2014.
8. Contractual
Structure in Agriculture with Endogenous Matching, (with Alexander Karaivanov), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 110, Pages
303-312, September 2014.
9. 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.
10. Trade and the
Allocation of Talent with Capital Market Imperfections, (with R. Bonfatti). Journal of International Economics, 89 1:
187-201, 2013.
11. Incentives and
the de Soto Effect, ((with T. Besley, K. Burchardi). Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 127 1: 237-282, 2012.
12. 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.
13. 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].
14. Wealth
Inequality and Collective Action, (with P. Bardhan and A. Karaivanov).
Journal of Public Economics, 91 9: 1843–1874, 2007.
15. 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]
16. 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]
17. Competition
and Incentives with Motivated Agents, (with T. Besley). American Economic
Review, 95 3: 616-636, 2005
18. Joint
Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect, (with S. Gangopadhyay
and R. Lensink). Economic Journal, 115 506:
1005-1115, 2005.
19. Eviction
Threats and Investment Incentives, (with A.V. Banerjee). Journal of
Development Economics, 74 2: 469-488, 2004.
20. 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.
21. 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]
22. A Simple Model
of Inequality, Occupational Choice and Development, (with N. Jiang). Journal
of Development Economics, 69 1: 205-226, 2001.
23. Government
versus Private Ownership of Public Goods, (with T. Besley). Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 116 4: 1343 – 1372, 2001.
24. Occupational
Choice and Dynamic Incentives, (with M. Morelli, T. Sjostrom). Review of
Economic Studies, 68 4: 781-810, 2001.
25. Financially
Interlinked Business Groups, (with R. Kali). Journal of Economics and
Management Strategy. 10 4: 591-619, 2001.
26. Contract
Choice in Agriculture with Joint Moral Hazard in Effort and Risk, (with P.
Pandey). Journal of Development Economics, 63 2: 303-326, 2000.
27. Screening by
the Company You Keep: Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect. Economic
Journal, 110 465: 601-631, 2000.
28. 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)]
29. Group Lending,
Local Information and Peer Selection. Journal of Development Economics,
60 1: 27-50, 1999.
Other Academic Publications
1. Economic Theories of the
Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise, Forthcoming, LSE Public
Policy Review, 2021 (Extensively revised and updated version of the chapter
from The Nonprofit Sector: A Research
Handbook).
2. 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
3. What Would Make India’s
Growth Sustainable? (with Ashok Kotwal and Bharat Ramaswami), The India Forum, August 15, 2020.
4. An Inclusive Growth
Dividend: Reframing the Role of Income Transfers in India’s Anti-Poverty
Strategy, (with Karthik Muralidharan). To appear in India Policy Forum, 2018/19, Volume 15, (ed.s)
Shekhar Shah, Barry Bosworth, and Karthik Muralidharan. New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
5.
"Property Rights and Productivity of Resource
Allocation in Developing Countries", forthcoming 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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
8.
Universal
Basic Income Proposal - Some Theoretical Aspects with François Maniquet). Annual
Review of Economics, 11:895–928, 2019.
9.
“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.
10. 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.
11. Pro-social
Motivation and Incentives, (with Tim Besley), Annual Review of Economics,
Volume 10, pp 411-438, 2018.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.)
22. Did Gujarat’s
Growth Rate Accelerate under Modi? (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political
Weekly of India, April 12, 2014.
23. Bailouts and
the Optimal Taxation of Bonus Pay, (with T. Besley). American Economic
Review, Papers and Proceedings, 103 3: 163–167, 2013.
24. The Land Acquisition
Bill: A Critique and a Proposal, (with P. Ghosh). Economic and Political
Weekly of India, 46 41: 65-72, 2011.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Status
Incentives, (with T. Besley). American Economic Review, Papers and
Proceedings, 98 2: 206-211, 2008.
29. Reforming
Public Service Delivery, (with T. Besley). Journal of African Economics,
16 1: 127-156, 2007.
30. 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.
31. Land Reform.
In The Oxford Companion to Economics in
India (ed K. Basu). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 328-332, 2007.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. Incentives and
Accountability in the Provision of Public Services, (with T. Besley). Oxford
Review of Economic Policy, 19 2: 235-249, 2003.
38. 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.
39. Diversified Business Groups in Emerging Economies, (with R. Kali). Money and Finance, 2 4: 20-31, 2000.
Working Papers
1.
Why Do People Stay Poor? (with Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, and Anton Heil), CEPR
Discussion Paper DP14534, March 2020.
2.
Guilt, Esteem, and Motivational Investments (with Z.
Wahhaj), CEPR Discussion Paper DP15172, August 2020.
3.
The Role of Finance in the Process of Development:
Improving Access versus Reducing Frictions, (with T. Besley and K. Burchardi).
Working Paper. Latest version: September 2020.
4.
The Evolution of Motivation, (with T. Besley). Working
Paper. December, 2017.
5.
Markets
and Values: Cultural Evolution and Intrinsic Motivation, (with Tim Besley).
Latest version: February 2016.
6.
Inequality and Identity Salience, (with Thierry
Verdier) Draft prepared for conference on Public Goods, Commodification and
Rising Inequality, Stanford University, November 2-3
2017.
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.
9.
Reputation, Information Externalities, and
Discrimination, Version: September 2014.
10. Solving Agency
Problems: Intrinsic Motivation, Incentives, and Productivity (with Tim Besley).
Background paper for the World Development Report 2015. Last Revised: January
2014.
11. 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.
12. Gun Control
and the Self Defense Argument, Version: January 2001
13. Taxation and
Regulation of Bonus Pay, (with Tim Besley). C.E.P.R. Discussion Paper No. 8532,
2011
14. Credit
Rationing, Wealth Inequality, and Allocation of Talent, (with Massimo Morelli
and Tomas Sjostrom). STICERD Theoretical Economics Discussion Paper
TE/2002/441, 2002.
Work
In Progress
1.
Incentives for Social Distancing and Self Isolation
(with Tim Besley, Sacha Dray, and Linchuan Xu).
2.
Can
Taste for Discrimination Persist in Competitive Markets? (with Zaki Wahhaj).
3.
Relaxing Credit and Tenure Security Constraints:
Credit and Land Titling in Uganda (with Markus Goldstein, James Habyarimana,
Joao Montalvao, Michael O’Sullivan, Christopher Udry).
4.
The Welfare Effects of Informal Finance (with T.
Besley and K. Burchardi).
5.
The
Political Economy of Salience of Social vs Economic Identity (with Thierry
Verdier).
6.
Missing
Markets and Backward Bending Supply Curve of Land, (with Madhav Aney and Sanjay Banerji).
7.
Regulating
Asset Sales: Mandating Golden Parachutes? (with Dilip Mookherjee).
8.
Non-Profits
and Ownership of Public Goods, (with Tim Besley and Patrick Francois).
9. For-Profit and Non-Profit
Competition, (with Hannes Mueller).
Essays and
Reviews
The complete list of essays and op-eds with links
available at : http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ghatak/essay.html
(English) http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ghatak/bangla.html
(Bengali)
Media
Regular columnist, NDTV.com, The Hindustan
Times
Regular contributor, Anandabazar
Patrika (Bengali), The India Forum, The
Wire
Regular contributor and member of Editorial Board
(2012-present) Ideas for India
Founding contributor, VoxDev.Org
Occasional contributor: 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).