Ghatak, Maitreesh
Professor Maitreesh Ghatak
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Experience keywords:
incentive issues in the public sector; markets in underdeveloped countries; economic reform in west Bengal; tenancy reform; microlending
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Professor Ghatak is a micro-economist whose main area of interest is economic development. His research studies, both theoretically and empirically, the micro-foundations of market and non-market institutions that govern the allocation of resources in underdeveloped countries in the presence of missing and incomplete markets, and transactions costs. Some of the specific topics of his current and past research are micro lending programmes, land reform, the role of NGOs in providing public goods, and the role of credit market imperfections in economic underdevelopment.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
West Bengal
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Languages: Bengali [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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Banerjee, Abhijit and Duflo, Esther and Ghatak, Maitreesh and Lafortune, Jeanne (2013) Marry for what?: caste and mate selection in modern India. American economic journal: microeconomics, 5 (2). pp. 33-72. ISSN 1945-7669 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Mookherjee, Dilip (2013) Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers. Journal of development economics, ISSN 0304-3878 Bonfatti, Roberto and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2012) Trade and the allocation of talent with capital market imperfections. Journal of international economics, 89 (1). pp. 187-201. ISSN 0022-1996 Besley, Timothy and Burchardi, Konrad B. and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2012) Incentives and the De Soto Effect. The quarterly journal of economics, 127 (1). pp. 237-282. ISSN 0033-5533 Fischer, Gregory and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2011) Spanning the chasm: uniting theory and empirics in microfinance research. In: Armendáriz , Beatriz and Labie , Marc, (eds.) The handbook of microfinance . World Scientific Publishing , London, UK. ISBN 9789814295659 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Mueller, Hannes (2011) Thanks for nothing?: not-for-profits and motivated agents. Journal of Public Economics, 95 (1-2). pp. 94-105. ISSN 0047-2727 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Karaivanov, Alexander (2011) Contractual structure and endogenous matching partnerships. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers, EOPP 024. STICERD, London, UK Bonfatti, Roberto and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2010) Trade and the skill premium puzzle with capital market imperfections. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers, EOPP 020. STICERD, London, UK Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2009) Property rights and economic development. In: Rodrick, Dani and Rosenzweig, M. R., (eds.) Handbook of development economics. Elsevier, pp. 4525-4595. ISSN 15734471 Banerjee, Abhijit and Duflo, Esther and Ghatak, Maitreesh and Lafortune, Jeanne (2009) Marry for what?: caste and mate selection in modern India. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers, EOPP 009. STICERD, London, UK Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2009) The de Soto effect. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers, EOPP 008. Suntory Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2009) Property rights and economic development. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers, EOPP/2009/6. Suntory Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2008) Status incentives. American economic review, 98 (2). pp. 206-211. ISSN 0002-8282 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2008) L'offre de services publics par les acteurs non gouvernementaux. Revue d'économie du développement, 22 (4). pp. 89-108. ISSN 1245-4060 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Bardhan, Pranab (2007) Wealth, inequality and collective action. Journal of public economics, 91 (9). pp. 1843-1874. ISSN 0047-2727 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Morelli, Massimo and Sjöström, Tomas (2007) Entrepreneurial talent, occupational choice and trickle up policies. Journal of economic theory, 137 (1). pp. 27-48. ISSN 1095-7235 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Besley, Timothy (2007) Retailing public goods: the economics of corporate social responsibility. Journal of public economics, 91 (9). pp. 1645-1663. ISSN 0047-2727 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2007) Reforming public service delivery. Journal of African economies, 16 (1). pp. 127-156. ISSN 1464-3723 Ghatak, Maitreesh (2007) Land reform. In: Basu, Kaushik, (ed.) The Oxford companion to economics in India. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780195669848 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Roy, S (2007) Land reform and agricultural productivity in India: a review of the evidence. Oxford review of economic policy, 23 (2). pp. 251-269. ISSN 1460-2121 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2006) Sorting with motivated agents: implications for school competition and teacher incentives. Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (2-3). pp. 404-414. ISSN 1542-4774 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Khwaja, Asim and Andrabi, Tahir (2006) Subcontractors for tractors: asset speciality and contracting in a manufacturer-supplier network. Journal of development economics, 79 (2). pp. 273-302. ISSN 0304-3878 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2006) Public goods and economic development. In: Banerjee, Abhijit and Benabou, R and Mookherjee, D, (eds.) Understanding poverty. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 285-302. ISBN 0195305205 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Bardhan, P and Karaivanov, A (2006) Inequality and collective action. In: Bardhan, P and Bowles, S and Baland, J, (eds.) Inequality, cooperation action and environmental sustainability. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA, pp. 36-59. ISBN 0691128790 Gangopadhyay, S and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2005) Joint liability lending and the peer selection effect. The economic journal, 115 (506). pp. 1005-1015. ISSN 1468-0297 Ghatak, Maitreesh (2005) Who should provide public goods? A perspective from the theory of organizations. In: Banerjee, Nirmala and Marjit, Sugata, (eds.) Developmment, displacement and disparity. Orient Longman, New Delhi, India. ISBN 8125028447 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2005) Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations. In: Hutter, Bridget and Power, Michael, (eds.) Organizational encounters with risk. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 149-166. ISBN 0521609283 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Banerjee, Abhijit (2004) Eviction threats and investment incentives. Journal of development economics, 74 (2). pp. 469-488. ISSN 0304-3878 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2004) Competition and incentives with motivated agents. CEPR discussion paper no. 4641. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2003) Competition and incentives with motivated agents. Theoretical Economics; TE/2003/465, TE/03/465. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK Ghatak, Maitreesh and Assuncao, Juliano (2003) Can unobserved heterogeneity in farmer ability explain the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity. Economics letters, 80 (2). pp. 189-194. ISSN 0165-1765 Banerjee, Abhijit and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2003) Eviction threats and investment incentives. DEDPS, 39. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2003) Incentives, choice and accountability in the provision of public services. Oxford review of economic policy, 19 (2). pp. 235-249. ISSN 0266-903X Banerjee, Abhijit and Bardhan, Pranab and Basu, Kaushik and Datta-Chaudhuri, Mrinal and Ghatak, Maitreesh and Guha, Ashok and Majumdar, Mukul and Mookherjee, Dilip and Ray, Debraj (2002) Strategy for economic reform in West Bengal. Economic and political weekly, 37 (41). pp. 4203-4218. ISSN 0012-9976 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Jiang, Nien-Huei (2002) A simple model of inequality, occupational choice and development. Journal of development economics, 69 (1). pp. 205-226. ISSN 0304-3878 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Ghatak, Maitreya (2002) Recent reforms in the Panchayat system in west Bengal: toward greater participatory governance. Economic and political weekly, 37 (1). ISSN 0012-9976 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Gertler, Paul and Banerjee, Abhijit (2002) Empowerment and efficiency: tenancy reform in West Bengal. Journal of political economy, 110 (2). pp. 239-280. ISSN 0022-3808 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2001) Government versus private ownership of public goods. Quarterly journal of economics, 116 (4). pp. 1343-1372. ISSN 0033-5533 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Morelli, Massimo and Sjostrom, Tomas (2001) Occupational choice and dynamic incentives. Review of economic studies, 68 (4). pp. 781-810. ISSN 0034-6527 Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2001) Government versus private ownership of public goods. CEPR discussion paper; no. 2725. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London Besley, Timothy and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2001) Public versus private ownership of public goods. Quarterly journal of economics, 116 (4). pp. 1343-1372. ISSN 0033-5533 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Kali, Raja (2001) Financially interlinked business groups. Journal of economics and management strategy, 10 (4). pp. 591-619. ISSN 1058-6407 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Kali, Raja (2000) Diversified business groups in emerging economies. ICRA bulletin: money and fianance, 2 (4). pp. 20-31. Ghatak, Maitreesh (2000) Contract choice in agriculture with joint moral hazard in effort and risk. Journal of development economics, 63 (2). pp. 303-326. ISSN 0304-3878 Ghatak, Maitreesh (2000) Screening by the company you keep: joint liability lending and the peer selection effect. The economic journal, 110 (465). pp. 601-631. ISSN 1468-0297 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Guinnane, Timothy W (2000) The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice. In: Mookerjee, Dilip and Ray, Debraj, (eds.) Readings in the theory of economic development. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, pp. 411-440. ISBN 0631220062 Ghatak, Maitreesh (1999) Group lending, local information and peer selection. Journal of development economics, 60 (1). pp. 27-50. ISSN 0304-3878 Ghatak, Maitreesh and Guinnane, Timothy W (1999) The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice. Journal of development economics, 60 (1). pp. 195-228. ISSN 0304-3878
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