The Economics Area Faculty offer the following courses in various programme.
IIM-A Economics Area faculty conduct research in the following broad areas:
Agricultural economics
Applied game theory
Applied macroeconomics
Applied microeconomics
Balance of payments
Banking
Behavioural economics
Business & economic history
Capital markets
Competition
Determinants of enterprise level capabilities
Development economics
Experimental economics
Export behavior and performance of firms
Financial economics
Firm level responses to policy initiatives
Fiscal policy at national and state levels
Foreign direct investment
Foreign exchange management
Game theory
Gender discrimination
Gender economics
Health economics
Industrial organization
Infrastructure
Intellectual property rights
International finance
International macroeconomics
International trade
Labour economics
Mathematical economics
Mechanism design
Micro, small, and medium enterprises
Migration
Monetary policy in India
Network theory
Pharmaceuticals - business strategy and policy
Privatization
Public finance/Public economics
Public policy
Regional disparities in growth patterns
Regional science
Regulation
Research & development
Sources of economic growth in India
State owned enterprises
Taxation and deficit financing
Technology
Urban economics
| Speaker | Topic | Date |
| Moumita Roy Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad |
Achieving Peace in Conflicts with Spillovers | March 28, 2025 |
| Yogeshwar Bharat CAFRAL |
Financial Repression, Deposit Rate Deregulation, and Bank Market Power | March 18, 2025 |
| Priyoma Mustafi University of Pittsburgh |
Information Pooling in the Household: The Role of Expertise | March 13, 2025 |
| Pragati Priya Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow |
Transmission of Monetary Policy and Credit Supply Shocks to FirmInvestment Behavior: Tangibles vsIntangibles | January 30, 2025 |
| Prashant Bharadwaj University of California |
Statistical Discrimination and the Distribution of Wages | December 18, 2024 |
|
Girija Borker |
Sexual harassment in public spaces and police patrolling: Experimental evidence from Urban India | March 23, 2023 |
| Sandip Sukhtankar University of Virginia |
Cash transfers for child development: Experimental evidence from India | February 15, 2023 |
|
Chinmaya Kumar |
Complaint Resolution Systems: Experimental Evidence from Rural India | February 14, 2023 |
|
Rupika Khanna |
Testing the effect of investments in IT and R&D on labour productivity: New method and evidence for Indian firms | February 09, 2023 |
| Abhijeet Singh Stockholm School of Economics |
Learning loss and recovery: Panel data evidence from India | October 17, 2022 |
| Akhil Ilango Universität Pompeu Fabra |
Sponsored Search: Theory and Evidence on How Platforms Exacerbate Product Market Concentration | September 23, 2022 |
| Anuvinda P. Jawaharlal Nehru University |
The effect of own and recipient economic status on the dictator game giving of adolescents: Experimental evidence from India | August 29, 2022 |
| Anujit Chakraborty University of California |
Future Self-proof Elicitation Mechanisms | August 25, 2022 |
| Aditya Kuvalekar University of Essex |
The Wrong kind of Information | July 04, 2022 |
| Shan Aman-Rana University of Virginia |
Verify Now, Save Later? Advance Screening to Mitigate Fraud | April 20, 2022 |
| Rohan Ravindra Gudibande Krea University |
Reality, Rhetoric and Reporting of the Relationship between Immigration and Crime: Evidence from Geneva, Switzerland | March 30, 2022 |
| Ajinkya Keskar Rice University |
Matching on Height in India | February 21, 2022 |
| Nafisa Lohawala University of Michigan |
Roadblock or Accelerator? The Effect of Electric Vehicle Subsidy Elimination | February 10, 2022 |
| Anjali Priya Verma University of Texas |
Disruptive Interaction: Long-run Peer Effects of Disciplinary Schools | February 04, 2022 |
| Arkdev Ghosh University of British Columbia |
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | January 21, 2022 |
| Vatsala Shreeti Toulouse School of Economics |
Explaining Smartphone Adoption in India | December 29, 2021 |
| Guo Xu Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley |
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Wilson | October 20, 2021 |
| Ritesh Jain Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica |
Rationalizable Implementation: An Iterative Characterization | May 17, 2021 |
| Anindya S. Chakrabarti Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
Financial comovement networks: Instability, centrality and ripples | February 11, 2021 |
| Sampreet Singh Goraya Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
The Rise of Intangible Capital and the Macroeconomic Implications | January 18, 2021 |
| Arpita Patnaik University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Pricing, Income and College Major Choice | January 12, 2021 |
| Tanmoy Majilla Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
Who benefits from private schools in India | December 28, 2020 |
| Kaushalendra Kishore CAFRAL |
Credit Insurance, Bailout and Systemic Risk | November 17, 2020 |
| Tarun Jain Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
Women's Labor Force Participation and Household Technology Adoption | July 3, 2020 |
| Prakash Loungani, IMF Sriram Balasubramanian, IMF Rishabh Kumar University of Massachusetts Boston |
Inequality dynamics amidst rapid growth: A post liberalization Indian perspective' | June 18, 2020 |
| Birendra Rai Monash University |
Becker, Stigler, and Me Too: The Role of Mutual Consent | January 31, 2020 |
| Sujata Visaria Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
The Borrowing Puzzle: Why Do Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Borrow rather than Dissave? | January 27, 2020 |
| Abhishek Chakravarty University of Manchester |
Informed Citizens and Political Entry: Evidence from a Large Education Programme in India | January 13, 2020 |
| Nishith Prakash University of Connecticut |
Wheels of Change: Transforming Women's Lives with Education and Empowerment | January 6, 2020 |
| Anujit Chakraborty U C Davis |
Present Bias | December 17, 2019 |
| Sanjit Dhami University of Leicester |
Psychological and Social Motivations in Microfinance Contracts: Theory and Evidence | December 13, 2019 |
| Sudipta Sarangi Virginia Tech |
Are More Choices Better and Other Tales about Decision-making | December 12, 2019 |
| Santosh Kumar Sam Houston State University |
Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India | December 2, 2019 |
| Sofia Amaral The ifo Institute at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich |
Gender, Crime and Punishment: Evidence from Women Police Stations in India | November 20, 2019 |
| Bhaven Sampat Columbia University |
TRIPS, Patents, and Drug Prices in India | November 14, 2019 |
| Martin Kanz World Bank |
Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment | September 12, 2019 |
| Indrajit Thakurata Indian Institute of Management Indore |
The effect of financial market participation on consumption & human capital: a life-cycle optimization model | August 28, 2019 |
| Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics |
Why Do People Stay Poor? Testing for Poverty Traps using Experimental Evidence from a Randomized Capital Transfer Programme in Bangladesh? | August 22, 2019 |
| Arijit Mukherjee Michigan State University |
Rulebooks in Relational Contracts | July 07, 2019 |
| Sam Asher World Bank |
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Estimates from Administrative Data | March 5, 2019 |
| Chetan Ghate Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi |
A Monetary Business Cycle Model for India | February 28, 2019 |
| Sugata Marjit Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
Wealth Distribution, Pattern of Trade and Capital Flows- Role of Credit Market Imperfection | January 21, 2019 |
| Stephen Devadoss Texas Tech University |
Major Determinants of World Agricultural Trade | December 27, 2018 |
| Deepal Basak Indian School of Business |
Diffusing Coordination Risk | November 2, 2018 |
| Massimo Warglien Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy |
Hierarchical decision-making produces persistent differences in learning performance | November 2, 2018 |
| T. Krishna Kumar Rockville Analytics, US |
Poverty Index with Time-Varying Consumption and Income Distributions | November 1, 2018 |
| Shekhar Tomar RBI |
Do Price Deficiency Payments scheme work? Evidence from the Indian agricultural market | September 24, 2018 |
| Tarun Jain Indian School of Business |
Social Connections And Public Healthcare Utilization | September 3, 2018 |
| Saurav Bhattacharya Royal Holloway University of London, UK |
Condorcet Jury Theorem in a Spatial Model of Elections | August 20, 2018 |
| Madhu Kalimipalli Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada |
Evaluating the Impact of Post-Crisis Growth in Emerging Market Corporate Debt | August 17, 2018 |
| Anujit Chakraborty University of California, Davis, US |
Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Games | July 20,2018 |
| Venkat Venkatasubramanian Columbia University, US |
How Much Income Inequality is Fair? Surprising insights from Statistical Mechanics and Game Theory | July 11, 2018 |
| P V. Viswanath Pace University, US |
Asset markets, the Agency problem and Gifts to the Early Medieval Buddhist Sangha in India | June 21, 2018 |
| Samarth Gupta NCAER, Delhi |
What Do Good Managers Do? Evidence from an Insurance Firm in India | June 14, 2018 |
| Punarjit Roychowdhury Shiv Nadar University |
Partial Identification Of Economic Mobility: With An Application To The United States | April 17, 2018 |
| Chirantan Chatterjee Indian School of Business |
When The Big One Came: A Natural Experiment On Demand Shocks And Market Structure In India's Influenza Vaccine Markets | April 10, 2018 |
| Rajiv Banker Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University, US |
Cost Management Research | February 14, 2018 |
| Ritesh Jain Ohio State University, US |
Rationalizable Implementation of Social Choice Correspondences | January 31, 2018 |
| Kiriti Kanjilal Washington State University, US |
Common Pool Resources with Endogenous Equity Shares | January 15, 2018 |
| Anil Kumar Bera University of Illinois, US |
Spatial Analysis: A Helicopter Tour | January 12, 2018 |
| Subhash C. Ray University of Connecticut, US |
Economic Measures of Capacity Utilisation: A nonparametric cost function Analysis | January 4, 2018 |
| Markus Brueckner Australian National University, Australia |
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Role of Initial Income | December 15, 2017 |
| Reetika Khera IIT Delhi |
Intergenerational effects of women's status: Evidence from joint Indian households | November 29, 2017 |
| Atanu Sinha Adobe Bangalore |
Online Infomediary for One-of-a-Kind Services | November 10, 2017 |
| S. P. Kothari Sloan School of Management, MIT |
High Non-GAAP Earnings Predict Abnormally High CEO Pay | November 9, 2017 |
| Arun Kumar Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. |
Demonetization 2016 and Black Economy | November 7, 2017 |
| Kaushal Kishore IIM Rohtak |
Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential Taxation Regimes: A case for unilateral commitment | October 27 2017 |
| Apoorva Javadekar CAFRAL, RBI |
Mutual Fund Flows and Fund's Strategic Behavior When Investors Are Inattentive | September 4, 2017 |
| Sitabhra Sinha Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
Can we infer the "laws" of finance from big data? | August 24, 2017 |
| Bhaskar Dutta Warwick and Ashoka University |
The formation of partnerships in social networks | August 17, 2017 |
| Kanika Mahajan Ashoka University |
Why are fewer married women joining the work force in rural India? A decomposition analysis over two decades | August 4, 2017 |
| Pavel Chakraborty Jawaharlal Nehru University |
Intellectual Property Regimes, Technology Adoption and Organization of Firms | July 26, 2017 |
| Sushant Mallick Queen Mary University of London |
Is financial inclusion good for bank stability? International evidence | July 24, 2017 |
| Romar Correa Mumbai University |
Stock-Flow-Consistent Models and Institutional Variety | July 18, 2017 |
| Shawn Cole Harvard Business School, US |
The Promise & Pitfalls of ICT for Agriculture | July 14, 2017 |
| Vegard Iversen University of Manchester |
Revisiting the colonial origins of agricultural development in India: an update and research practice reflections | January 11, 2017 |
| Subhas C. Ray University of Connecticut, USA |
Selection of Inputs and Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis | January 9, 2017 |
| Sanjeev Kumar Yale University, USA |
Does health influence risk preference? | December 16, 2016 |
| Ratul Lahkar IIM Udaipur |
Large Population Aggregative Potential Games | December 8, 2016 |
| Jamus Lim Abu Dhabi Investment Authority |
Learning from financial crises? | November 15, 2016 |
| Nirupama Kulkarni Cafral, Reserve Bank of India |
Homeownership and the American dream - an analysis of intergenerational mobility effects | September 30, 2016 |
| Vikram Pathania University of Sussex, UK |
High-Cost Debt and Borrower Reputation: Evidence from the U.K | September 14, 2016 |
| Shubha Ghosh Syracuse University College of Law, USA |
Licensing Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Technology | August 5, 2016 |
| Viral Acharya Stern School of Business, NYU, USA |
Whatever it takes: the real effects of unconventional monetary policies | August 4, 2016 |
| N. R. Prabhala University of Maryland, USA; CAFRAL, Mumbai |
Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence From a Policy Experiment | July 4, 2016 |
| Rakesh Basant Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
Exploring Linkages Between Innovation and Public Policy: Challenges and Opportunities | June 29, 2016 |
| Tridip Ray Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi |
Public versus Private Provisioning: Role of Education and Political Participation | June 28, 2016 |
| Bipasha Maity University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada |
Consumption and Time-Use Effects of India's Employment Guarantee and Women's Participation | June 27, 2016 |
| Abhiman Das Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
The Transmission of Monetary Policy Within Banks: Evidence from India |
April 18, 2016 |
| Vipul Mathur Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
Optimal Monetary Policy and Equity Premium under Endogenous Asset Market Segmentation | February 16, 2016 |
| Chinmay Tumbe Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad |
Urbanization and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from India's Demographic Divergence | February 15, 2016 |
| Swagata Bhattacharjee University of Texas at Austin, USA |
Contracting for Innovation under Ambiguity | February 9, 2016 |
| T.E.S. Raghavan University of Illinois, Chicago, USA |
Game Theory – The Mathematics for Conflict Resolution | January 28, 2016 |
| Sushanta Mallick Queen Mary University of London, UK |
Corporate debt restructruring, bank competition and satibility: evidence from creditors' perspective | December 14, 2015 |
| Ratnik Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ahmedabad University |
Economics and Computation | December 4, 2015 |
| Victor Yakovenko University of Maryland, Maryland, USA |
Economic Inequality from Statistical Physics Point of View | December 2, 2015 |
| Chinmay Tumbe Tata Institute of Social Science, Hyderabad |
Missing Men, Migration and Labour Markets: Evidence from India | December 2, 2015 |
| Irena Vodenska Boston University, Metropolitan College, USA |
Complex network approach to understnading the relationship between social media, news and global financial market returns | November 26, 2015 |
| Aditi Bhattacharyya Business College , Sam Houston State University in Texas, USA |
A Generalized Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Rice Farming: A Case Study from Assam, India | July 20, 2015 |
| Anindya S. Chakrabarti Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
Economic Incentives Versus Institutional Frictions: Dynamics of Cross-Country Migration | July 14, 2015 |
| Lakshmi K. Raut Social Security Administration, Washington DC, USA |
Globalization, Quality and Inequity in Education and Economic Growth: Lessons for Indian from China | February 12, 2015 |
| Pritha Dev Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo De Mexico, Mexico |
Group Identity in a Network Formation Game with Cost Sharing | January 22, 2015 |
| Anindya S. Chakrabarti Boston University, Boston, USA |
Globalization of Volatility | January 20, 2015 |
| Mudit Kapoor Indian School of Business, Hyderabad |
Why So Few Women in Politics? Evidence from India | December 4, 2014 |
| Sebastian Morris Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
Issues in Water Rights, Institutional Design and Pricing that Need Resolution | December 3, 2014 |
| Ritwik Banerjee Aarhus University, Denmark |
Synopsis of "Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital | July 21, 2014 |
| Sanket Mohapatra The World Bank, Washington DC, USA |
Sovereign and Sub-Sovereign Credit Ratings: Re-Examining the Spillover Effect | July 15, 2014 |
| Ratul Lahkar Ashoka University, Kundli |
Aspiration, Learning and Social Change | July 8, 2014 |
| Vijay Modi Columbia University, New York, USA |
Can innovation help Entrepreneurs and enable service provision for the Poor? | May 28, 2014 |
| Tushi Baul New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
Does Unethical Behavior Affect Choice of Profession: Public Vs. Private? | April 24, 2014 |
| Ambrish Dongre Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi |
Impact of Private Tutoring on Learning Levels: Evidence from India | March 7, 2014 |
| Nachiket Mor | Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households | January 29, 2014 |
Economics Area faculty are active in organizing conferences and workshops on topical themes at the frontier of research and policy.
"Behavioral Research in Economics Workshop" on December 16-17, 2019 and on December 2-3, 2020 (online) at IIM Ahmedabad.
"Working Conference on Authority, Organisation, Strategies and Politics of Relatedness" on April 23-29, 2020 at Clarks Amer, Jaipur.
"Network Science in Economics and Finance" on December 8-10, 2019 at IIM Ahmedabad.
"International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History in Memory of Prof. Dwijendra Tripathi" on August 29-31 2019 at IIM Ahmedabad.
"Financial Distress, Bankruptcy and Corporate Finance" on August 9-10 2019 at IIM Ahmedabad.
Faculty news
The Economics Area at IIM Ahmedabad is seeking faculty candidates at the Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor levels. Economics Area faculty conduct research, teach at the master’s and doctoral levels, provide policy advice to the government and international bodies, and engage in consulting for industry.
Applicants in all fields of Economics will be considered. We are particularly looking for applicants in Empirical Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics, and Labour Economics.
IIMA is an equal opportunity employer. Women, non-Indian nationals, and those belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes are encouraged to apply.
Applications can be made throughout the year and would be evaluated by the Area every month.
Faculty candidates for the Economics Area should apply through the IIMA Faculty Recruitment webpage with a complete application package.
Articles and Interviews by IIMA Economics Faculty
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