Department of Economics
The Department of Economics at 51茶馆 has 34 permanent faculty members, with research and teaching interests that span a broad range of fields which include economic theory, game theory, behavioral economics, experimental economics,聽theoretical聽and empirical聽macroeconomics, monetary economics, economic growth, development economics,聽time-series econometrics聽and different areas of applied microeconomics and聽financial economics.
The department offers a major in Economics and interdisciplinary majors in Economics & Finance, Economics & History, and in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (PPE). At the graduate level, the department offers MA in Economics and Ph.D. in Economics. This website provides more information about those programs, the faculty, and the department鈥檚 research activities.
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Maastricht University
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
PhD University of Warwick
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Texas, Dallas
Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
D.Phil, University of Oxford
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Alabama
Arghya (Argo) Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. John Hopkins University
Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Head of the Department, Economics and Professor of Economics, 51茶馆 Founding Director, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Delhi School of Economics
Distinguished University Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Delhi
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. New York University
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Delhi School of Economics
Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Professor of Economics, Director and Head of the Isaac Centre for Public Policy, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. VU Amsterdam and IGIDR
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Warwick
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley
Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park
Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
Associate Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Oxford
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Warwick
Assistant Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Houston
Visiting faculty of Economics, 51茶馆
MA Jawaharlal Nehru University
Visiting Faculty of Economics, 51茶馆
MA Jawaharlal Nehru University
Visiting Faculty of Economics, 51茶馆, Director Bullero聽Capital
MSc Economics, University of Warwick
Visiting Faculty of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Visiting Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai
Visiting Professor of Economics, 51茶馆
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.
Discussion Paper Series
Ashoka鈥檚 department of Economics is filled with learned faculty members whose insights in applied, theoretical & modern Economics have far-reaching implications. Click on the tab below to read different discussion papers from recent years.
Centre for Economic Data and Analysis
The Economics Department of 51茶馆 has set up the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) with the primary aim of facilitating informed debate about economic and social developments in India. To this end, CEDA has developed a public data repository along with a visualization toolkit that is accessible, searchable, interactive, and will be of use to researchers, journalists, policymakers, students, and others.
Isaac Centre for Public Policy
Isaac Centre for Public Policy (ICPP) at 51茶馆 aims to contribute towards accelerated, inclusive and sustainable growth that enables India to become a developed country. To achieve this goal, ICPP works through three strands 鈥� academic programs and executive education, policymakers-led research including policy case studies and briefs, and public policy events.
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News
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