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Maitreesh Ghatak

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Maitreesh Ghatak
Born (1968-02-07) 7 February 1968 (age 56)
NationalityIndian
Academic career
FieldDevelopment economics, Microeconomics, Contracts and Organizations, Public Economics
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
School or
tradition		Development Economist
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (B.Sc.)
University of Delhi (M.A.)
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Doctoral
advisor		Eric Maskin
ContributionsMicrofinance, Property Rights, Public Organizations
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Maitreesh Ghatak FBA (born 7 February 1968) is an Indian economist who is the professor of economics at the London School of Economics.[1][2][3] He is an applied microeconomic theorist with research interests in economic development, public economics, and the economics of organisations.

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His research interests include microfinance, property rights, occupational choice, collective action, and the economics of NGOs and non-profits.[4] He did his schooling in Patha Bhavan, Kolkata and went on to do his undergraduate studies at Presidency College, Kolkata. He has a M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a PhD in economics from Harvard University under the supervision of Eric Maskin and Abhijit Banerjee. He taught at the department of economics of University of Chicago[5] before moving to the London School of Economics[1] where he has taught since 2002. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Yale University, Northwestern University, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is currently a co-editor of Economica, a former managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies,[6] a former editor in chief of the Journal of Development Economics,[7] and a former co-editor of the Economics of Transition. He directs the research group Economic Organization and Public Policy (EOPP)[2][8] at the LSE. He is the Lead Economist of the DFID-funded[9] International Growth Centre's India (Bihar) programme.[10] He is a board member[11] of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development,[12] also known as the BREAD. He writes occasional essays in various newspapers and magazines on economic and political issues, in English as well as in Bengali.[13][14][15][16][17]

In July 2018 Ghatak was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[18]

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  • Group Lending, Local Information and Peer Selection. Journal of Development Economics, Vol.60, No.1, October 1999.[19]
  • The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice, (with Timothy W. Guinnane). Journal of Development Economics, Vol.60, No.1, October 1999[20](See also erratum in Volume 69, Issue 1, October 2002). (Reprinted in Readings in the Theory of Economic Development (ed.s) D. Mookherjee and D. Ray, London: Blackwell (2000).)
  • Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom). Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 68, No. 4, October 2001, pp. 781Elena Panaritis810.[21]
  • Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods, (with Tim Besley). Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, No. 4, p. 1343–1372, November 2001.[22]
  • Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, (with Abhijit V. Banerjee and Paul J. Gertler). Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, No. 2, April 2002, p. 239Elena Panaritis280.[23]
  • Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents (with Tim Besley). American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 616–636, June 2005.[24]
  • Retailing Public Goods: The Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility (with Tim Besley). Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, No. 9, pp. 1645–1663, September 2007.[25]
  • Property Rights and Economic Development (with T. Besley) in D. Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig (ed.s) Handbook of Development Economics, North Holland, 2009.
  • Thanks for Nothing? Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents (with H Mueller), Journal of Public Economics, 2010.[26]
  • Is Funding a Large Universal Basic Income Feasible? A Quantitative Analysis of UBI with Endogenous Labour Supply, LSE Public Policy Review, 2020.[27]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Maitreesh Ghatak, Economics Department, LSE". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Staff Biography, STICERD, LSE". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  3. ^ "Maitressh Ghatak, LSE Research and Expertise". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  4. ^ "Maitreesh Ghatak's Publications on LSE Research Online". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  5. ^ "The University of Chicago Record" (PDF). p. 6. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  6. ^ "Current Editorial Board of Review of Economic Studies". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  7. ^ "Journal of Development Economics Home Page". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  8. ^ "Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme (EOPP)". Archived from the original on 20 June 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  9. ^ "About US, International Growth Centre". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  10. ^ "International Growth Center, Bihar". Archived from the original on 2 April 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  11. ^ "BREAD Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  12. ^ "Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  13. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh (24 August 2009). "Small is Smart". Financial Express. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  14. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh (9 January 2010). "What Crisis Has Taught Economics". Financial Express. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  15. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh (23 March 2009). "Poor Man's Capitalism". Financial Express. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  16. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh (12 January 2009). "Barefoot businessmen". Financial Express. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  17. ^ Maitreesh Ghatak; Sanjay Banerji (30 September 2009). "No way out of this plot". Financial Express. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  18. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  19. ^ Ghatak, M (1999). "Group lending, local information and peer selection". Journal of Development Economics. 60 (1): 27–50. doi:10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00035-8.
  20. ^ Ghatak, M (1999). "The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice". Journal of Development Economics. 60 (1): 195–228. doi:10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00041-3.
  21. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo; Sjostrom, Tomas (2001). "Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives". Review of Economic Studies. 68 (4): 781–810. doi:10.1111/1467-937X.00190.
  22. ^ Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh (2001). "Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods*". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 116 (4): 1343–1372. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.584.6739. doi:10.1162/003355301753265598. S2CID 39187118.
  23. ^ Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Gertler, Paul J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh (2002). "Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal". Journal of Political Economy. 110 (2): 239–280. doi:10.1086/338744. S2CID 35935397.
  24. ^ Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh (2005). "Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents". American Economic Review. 95 (3): 616–636. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.322.9595. doi:10.1257/0002828054201413. S2CID 11320344.
  25. ^ Besley, T; Ghatak, M (2007). "Retailing public goods: the economics of corporate social responsibility☆". Journal of Public Economics. 91 (9): 1645–1663. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.469.2929. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.07.006.
  26. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mueller, Hannes (2011). "Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents". Journal of Public Economics. 95 (1–2): 94–105. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.368.5977. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.09.003. S2CID 9696431.
  27. ^ Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jaravel, Xavier (2020). "Is Funding a Large Universal Basic Income Feasible? A Quantitative Analysis of UBI with Endogenous Labour Supply". LSE Public Policy Review. 1 (2). doi:10.31389/lseppr.9.
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