Ritwik
Banerjee
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
- "Feedback Spillovers Across Tasks, Self-Confidence and Competitiveness" with Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marie Claire Villeval. Games and Economic Behavior, vol(123): 127:170, 2020.
- 'On the interpretation of World Values Survey trust question - global expectations vs. local beliefs'. Accepted at European Journal of Political Economy. 2018.
- 'Predicting food price inflation through online prices in India', with Nished Singhal and Chetan Subramanian. Economic and Political Weekly, vol 53(23): 132-135, 2018.
- 'On monetary and non-monetary interventions to combat corruption' with Arnab Mitra. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol 149, 332-355, 2018
- 'The spillover effects of affirmative action on competitiveness and unethical behavior', with Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marie Claire Villeval. European Economic Review, Vol 101, 567-604, January 2018.
- 'Corruption, Norm Violation and the Decay in Social Capital", Journal of Public Economics, Vol 137, 14-27, May 2016.
- 'On the Interpretation of Bribery in Laboratory Corruption Games: Moral Frames and Social Norms' Experimental Economics, vol 19(1), pages 240-267, March 2016.
- 'Social Norms regarding bribing in India: An experimental analysis' with Tushi Baul and Tanya Rosenblat, Journal of Contextual Economics, 2016.
- 'Awareness programs and change in taste-based caste prejudice' with Nabanita Datta Gupta. PLoS One 10(4): e0118546. April 2015.
- 'On self selection of the corrupt into the public sector' with Tushi Baul and Tanya Rosenblat. Economics Letters, vol 127, Pages 43-46, February 2015.
- 'An evaluation of the revenue side as a source of fiscal consolidation in high debt economies' Journal of Economic Studies, 2014.
- 'Linking Teacher and Student Absenteeism - The Role of shared goods in reducing Absenteeism' with Elizabeth M. King, Peter Orazem, Elizabeth M. Paterno. Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 563-574, 2012.
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