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Ritwik Banerjee

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Ritwik
Banerjee

Associate Professor
Economics
Chairperson, Institutional Review Board
Centre for Public Policy (CPP) - Secondary Member

Ritwik Banerjee is an Associate Professor of the Economics area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His primary research area is at the intersection between Behavioural and Development Economics and he extensively uses Experimental Methods for his research. Some of the topics he has investigated or is currently investigating are corruption, inequality, education and discrimination. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Games and Economic Behavior and Journal of Public Economics. Prior to his current assignment, he has worked as Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark with an independent grant from the Social Science Research Council of Denmark. He was an Academic Visitor at the Research Department of Federal Reserve, Chicago during the summer of 2012, a Visiting Scholar at the Economics Department, Harvard University in Spring 2015, Visiting Scholar at UNU WIDER, Helsinki in Spring 2019 and Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow, University of Berkeley in Fall 2019. He has also served as a Consultant at the World Bank in Washington DC and as a Research Associate at ICRIER, New Delhi. For more information of his research, please visit www.ritwikbanerjee.in.

Professor Banerjee’s interests are:

Behavioral Economics
Social Preferences, Social Norms, Social Identity, Status and Reference Dependence

Public Economics, Development Economics and Public Policy
Applications of Psychological Insights to issues of Development: Corruption, Affirmative Action, Self Confidence, Competition, Gender

Other Economic Policy Related Issues

PUBLISHED PAPERS

SOME RECENT UPDATES

  • Anujit Chakraborty, Ashokankur Datta, Arka Roy Chaudhuri and Ritwik Banerjee have been awarded a research grant of 41,542 GBP by the IGC.
  • Priyoma Mustafi, who had been working with Ritwik Banerjee as an Academic Associate for two years, has joined the PhD program in Economics at University of Pittsburgh.

WORKING PAPERS

  • "On the interpretation of the World Value Survey trust question: local vs. global beliefs."  2016.
  • "Self confidence spillovers and motivated beliefs" with Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marie Claire Villeval

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • "Understanding sources of labor market discrimination"
  • "Tax evasion and corruption"

DOCTORAL COURSE:

  • Advances in Behavioral Economics and Experimental Method

PGP COURSE:

  • Managerial Economics
  • Behavioral Economics (Taught at IIM Calcutta)

Experimental Methods and Psychology of Economic Decision Making

  • PhD, Economics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 2014
    Thesis Title : 'Economics of Misbehavior'
  • MS, Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, USA. 2009
  • MA, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 2007
  • BSc, Economics, Presidency College, Kolkata, India. 2005