October 2007
Maitreesh Ghatak
Department of
WC2A 2AE, U.K.
Telephone: (44) 207 852 3568
http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/mghatak/
Education
1986-1989 :
1989-1991 :
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, M.A.(Econ.), First
Class, First in University.
1991-1996 :
Principal Current Position
Professor: Department of Economics, London School of Economics (2004 –)
Professional Affiliations/Activities
Director (2005 – ): Economic Organization and Public
Policy Program (EOPP) in STICERD
Managing Editor (2003-2006): Review of Economic Studies
Member of Editorial Board (2002-): Review of Economic Studies
Co-editor (2003-2005): Economics
of Transition.
Member of Editorial Board (2001- ): Economica.
Member of Editorial Board (2003- ): India Macroeconomics Annual.
Senior Fellow (2002 -): Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (B.R.E.A.D.)
Research Fellow: Centre for
Economic Policy Research (C.E.P.R.), Program in Public Policy &
Development Economics
Research Associate: The Leverhulme Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO),
Programme Committee: European Economic Association
Annual Meetings,
Programme Committee: 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, UCL, 2005
Programme Committee: B.R.E.A.D.
Conference,
Past Positions
Assistant Professor: Department of Economics,
University of
Reader (Associate Professor with tenure): Department of Economics, London School of Economics (2002 – 2004)
Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor:
Visiting Scientist: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, July-August 2006.
Visiting Fellow: International/Development
Visitor Program for 2003/2004, Department of Economics, Northwestern
University,
Bhabatosh Datta
Visiting Fellow: Center
for Studies in Social Sciences,
Member: Institute for Advanced Study,
Visiting Assistant Professor: London School of Economics, January-March 1999.
Post-Doctoral Fellow: STICERD,
Fields of Interest
Applied Micro, Development Economics, Public Organizations
Teaching
Economic Growth and Development (Graduate and undergraduate), Contracts and Organizations (Graduate), & Microeconomics (Undergraduate).
PUBLICATIONS
Development
Economics
Refereed
Publications
1. "Group
Lending, Local Information and Peer Selection". Journal of
Development Economics , Vol.60, No.1, October 1999.
2. "The Economics of Lending
with Joint Liability : Theory and Practice", (with Timothy W. Guinnane). Journal of Development Economics,
Vol.60, No.1, October 1999 (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).]
3.
"Screening by the Company You Keep: Joint Liability Lending and the Peer
Selection Effect". Economic Journal, Vol.110, Issue 465,
July 2000.
4.
"Contract Choice in Agriculture with Joint Moral Hazard in Effort and
Risk", (with Priyanka Pandey).
Journal of Development Economics, Vol.63, No.2, December 2000.
5.
"Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives" (with Massimo Morelli
and Tomas Sjostrom). Review of Economic Studies,
Vol. 68, No. 4, October 2001, p. 781-810.
6. "Financially
Interlinked Business Groups", (with Raja Kali). Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy . Vol. 10, Issue 4, p. 591-619, Winter 2001.
7. 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. 239-280 [Lead article; Featured
in the article "Free Market Thumbs up for Bengal's Operation Barga", The Times of India, July 19,
2001, and "Barga Works, OK", The
Times of India, August 27, 2004.]
8. A Simple
Model of Inequality, Occupational Choice and Development", (with Nien-Huei Jiang). Journal
of Development Economics, Volume 69, Issue 1, October 2002.
9. "On
the Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity" (with Juliano Assuncao). Economics
Letters , Volume 80, No. 2, pp.189-194, August 2003.
10. "Eviction
Threats and Investment Incentives" (with Abhijit V. Banerjee), Journal
of Development Economics, Vol. 74, No.2, pp. 469-488, August 2004.
11. "Joint
Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect", (with
12. "Subcontractors for
Tractors: Asset Specificity and Contracting in a Manufacturer-Supplier
Network" (with Asim Khwaja, and Tahir Andrabi). Journal of Development Economics
. Volume 79, No. 2, pp. 273-492, April 2006. [Lead article]
13. "Entrepreneurial
Talent, Occupational Choice, and Trickle Up Policies" (with Massimo
Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom). Forthcoming, Journal
of Economic Theory.
14. "Wealth Inequality and Collective Action" (with Pranab Bardhan and Alexander Karaivanov), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, No. 9, p. 1843–1874.
Other
Publications
1. "Diversified Business Groups in
Emerging Economies" (with R. Kali), Money and Finance,
Vol.2, No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2000.
2.
“Recent Reforms in
the Panchayat System in West Bengal: Toward Greater
Participatory Governance?” (with
3. “Strategy for Economic Reform
in West Bengal” (with
4. "Inequality and Collective Action " (with P. Bardhan and A. Karaivanov) Forthcoming in P. Bardhan, S. Bowles and J. M. Baland (ed.) Economic Inequality, Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability, Princeton University Press, 2006.
5.
“Public
Goods and Economic Development’’ (with T. Besley),
in Understanding Poverty, (A.
Banerjee, R. Benabou, D. Mookherjee, eds.),
6. “Land
Reform”, entry in The Oxford
Companion to Economics in India edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford
University Press, 2007.
7. “Land
Reform and Agricultural Productivity in
8. “Property Rights” (with
T. Besley) forthcoming, in D. Rodrik
and M. Rosenzweig (ed.s) Handbook of Development Economics,
Public
Organizations
Refereed
Publications
1.
"Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods", (with Tim Besley). Quarterly Journal of Economics
,
Vol. 116, No. 4, p.1343 – 1372, November 2001.
2.
"Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents" (with Tim Besley). American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 616-636, June
2005.
3.
"Retailing Public Goods: The Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility"
(with Tim Besley). Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, No. 9, p. 1645–1663
[Lead article]
Other Publications
1. “Incentives and Accountability
in the Provision of Public Services’’ (with Tim Besley),
2. “Incentives, risk and
accountability in organizations” (with Tim Besley),
in Organizational Encounters with Risk (ed.s)
Bridget Hutter and Michael Power, Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
3. “Who should provide public goods? A Perspective from the Theory of Organizations?” Development, Displacement and Disparity - India in the Last Quarter of the Century, (ed.s) S. Marjit and N. Banerjee, Orient Longman, 2005.
4. “Sorting with Motivated Agents: Implications for School Competition and Teacher Incentives” (with T. Besley), Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 2006.
5. “Reforming Public Service Delivery” (with T. Besley), forthcoming, Journal of African Economics.
WORKING
PAPERS
1.
“Credit Rationing, Wealth Inequality, and
Allocation of Talent” (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom).
Version: October 2002, STICERD Theoretical
Economics Discussion Paper TE/2002/441.
2.
"Gun Control and the Self-Defense Argument",
Version: January 2001.
3.
“Public-Private
Partnership for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to
NGOs” (with Tim Besley), Version: August 1999,
STICERD Development
Economics Discussion Paper Series, DEDPS
17.
WORK IN PROGRESS
1.
“The
2. “Public Organizations”
(with Tim Besley).
3. “Arranged
Marriages and Caste in
4. "Contractual Structure in Agriculture with Endogenous Matching” (with Alexander Karaivanov). .
5. “Exit, Voice and Secrecy:
Property Rights in a Theory of Taxation” (with Tim Besley)
6. “Optimal
Social Distance in Informal Contracting” (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom)
7. "Informational
Externalities, Reputation and Discrimination".
8. “Tenant Heterogeneity and the
Unequal Effects of Agrarian Reform: Theory and Evidence" (with Abhijit V.
Banerjee and Paul Gertler).
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Op-Ed article on the recent trends in the U.S. economy (with Parikshit Ghosh), The Telegraph, Calcutta, June 4, 1999.
Op-Ed article on the increase in West Bengal’s agricultural productivity and the role of agrarian reform (in Bengali) (with Abhijit Banerjee), Ananda Bazar Patrika, Calcutta, April 20, 2000.
Op-Ed article on an economic plan for the West
Bengal government (with
Op-Ed article on industrial stagnation in West
Bengal (with
Op-Ed article on the policy of banning private
tuition in West Bengal (with Sugata Marjit) in The Telegraph,
Op-Ed article on the 2004 US Presidential
Election (in Bengali), Anandabazar Patrika,
AWARDS, GRANTS AND PRIZES
ESRC Large Grant RES-000-23-0717
“Competition and Incentives in Public Service Provision” (with T. Besley) 2004-06.
Visiting Fellowship, Center for Studies in
Social Sciences,
Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2000-01.
University of
Mellon Cultural Training and Research Grant for field survey in West Bengal, 1999.
Post Doctoral Fellowship, STICERD,
The Simon Kuznets
Award, 1993, Harvard University.
Completed Theses Supervised (with initial
placement)
Principal Advisor to: Neville Nien-Huei Jiang (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University) Rocco Macchiavello (Post-doc, Nuffield College, Oxford), Masayuki Kudamatsu (Assistant Professor, IIES, Stockholm), Emmanuel Frot (Assistant Professor, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics), Paolo Masella (Post-doc, European University Institute, Florence)
Member of Thesis Committee: Christopher Ahlin (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University), Kumar Aniket (Lecturer, New Hall and Trinity College, Cambridge 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).