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{{short description|Indian economist}}
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{{Infobox economist
| school_tradition = [[Development Economist]]
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| name = Maitreesh Ghatak
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1968|02|07}}
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| field = [[Development economics]], [[Microeconomics]], Contracts and Organizations, [[Public Economics]]
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| nationality = Indian
| institution = [[London School of Economics]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] ([[B.Sc.]])<br>[[University of Delhi]] ([[M.A.]])<br> [[Harvard University]] ([[Ph.D.]])
| doctoral_advisor = [[Eric Maskin]]
| contributions = [[Microfinance]], Property Rights, Public Organizations
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'''Maitreesh Ghatak''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 7 February 1968) is an Indian economist who is the Professor of Economics at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="LSE_ghat">{{cite web |url=http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/mghatak/ |title= Maitreesh Ghatak, Economics Department, LSE |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="Sticerd_ghat">{{cite web |url=http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/staff/person.asp?id=1138 |title=Staff Biography, STICERD, LSE |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="LSE_Experts" >{{cite web |url=http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=m.ghatak@lse.ac.uk |title=Maitressh Ghatak, LSE Research and Expertise |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> He is an applied microeconomic theorist with research interests in economic development, public economics, and the economics of organisations.

==Works==
His research interests include [[microfinance]], [[property rights]], occupational choice, [[collective action]], and the economics of NGOs and [[non-profits]].<ref name="LSE_Publication">{{cite web |url=http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/staff/lse_research_online.asp?id=1138&firstname=Maitreesh&lastname=GHATAK |title= Maitreesh Ghatak's Publications on LSE Research Online |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> He did his schooling in [[Patha Bhavan, Kolkata]] and went on to do his undergraduate studies at [[Presidency College, Kolkata]]. He has a M.A. in economics from the [[Delhi School of Economics]] and a PhD in economics from the [[Harvard University]] under the supervision of [[Eric Maskin]] and [[Abhijit Banerjee]]. He taught at the department of economics of [[University of Chicago]]<ref name="Chicago_ghat">{{cite web |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/about/documents/chicagorecord/pdfs/31-3.pdf |title= The University of Chicago Record | page= 6 |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> before moving to the [[London School of Economics]]<ref name="LSE_ghat" /> where he has taught since 2002. He has held visiting positions at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[Yale University]], [[Northwestern University]], and the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], Kolkata. He is currently a co-editor of [[Economica]], a former managing editor of the [[Review of Economic Studies]],<ref name="Restud_now" >{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/restud/editorial_board.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727163400/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/restud/editorial_board.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 July 2011 |title=Current Editorial Board of Review of Economic Studies |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> a former editor in chief of the [[Journal of Development Economics]],<ref name="JDE_ghat" >{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505546/description#description |title=Journal of Development Economics Home Page |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> and a former co-editor of the [[Economics of Transition]]. He directs the research group [[Economic Organization and Public Policy]] (EOPP)<ref name="Sticerd_ghat" /><ref name="EOPP_ghat" >{{cite web |url=http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/eopp/_new/about/default.asp |title=Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme (EOPP) |access-date=8 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620075153/http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/eopp/_new/about/default.asp |archive-date=20 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the [[London School of Economics|LSE]]. He is the Lead Economist of the [[Department for International Development|DFID]]-funded<ref name="IGC" >{{cite web |url=http://www.theigc.org/about |title=About US, International Growth Centre |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> [[International Growth Centre]]'s India (Bihar) programme.<ref name="IGC_Bihar" >{{cite web |url=http://www.theigc.org/country/india-state%20of%20bihar |title=International Growth Center, Bihar |access-date=8 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402043526/http://www.theigc.org/country/india-state%20of%20bihar |archive-date=2 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a board member<ref name="bread">{{cite web | url=http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/about.htm | title=BREAD Board of Directors | access-date=8 March 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308221023/http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/about.htm | archive-date=8 March 2013 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> of the [[Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development]],<ref name="Bread_Homepage" >{{cite web |url=http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/ |title=Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> also known as the BREAD. He writes occasional essays in various newspapers and magazines on economic and political issues, in English as well as in Bengali.<ref name="FE1" >{{cite news |first=Maitreesh |last=Ghatak |title=Small is Smart |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/small-is-smart/505974/ |date=24 August 2009 |newspaper= Financial Express |access-date=14 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="FE2" >{{cite news |first=Maitreesh |last=Ghatak |title=What Crisis Has Taught Economics |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/printer/news/565062/ |date=9 January 2010 |newspaper= Financial Express |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="FE3" >{{cite news |first=Maitreesh |last=Ghatak |title=Poor Man's Capitalism |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/poor-mans-capitalism/437611/0 |date=23 March 2009 |newspaper= Financial Express |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="FE4" >{{cite news |first=Maitreesh |last=Ghatak |title=Barefoot businessmen |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/barefoot-businessmen/409451/ |date=12 January 2009 |newspaper= Financial Express |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="FE5" >{{cite news |author1=Maitreesh Ghatak |author2=Sanjay Banerji |title=No way out of this plot |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/printer/news/522915/ |date=30 September 2009 |newspaper= Financial Express |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref>

In July 2018 Ghatak was elected Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (FBA).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/record-number-academics-elected-british-academy|title=Record number of academics elected to British Academy {{!}} British Academy|website=British Academy|language=en|access-date=2018-07-22}}</ref>

==Select bibliography==
* Group Lending, Local Information and Peer Selection. [[Journal of Development Economics]], Vol.60, No.1, October 1999.<ref name="Ghatak_JDE1999a">{{Cite journal | last1 = Ghatak | first1 = M | title = Group lending, local information and peer selection | doi = 10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00035-8 | journal = Journal of Development Economics | volume = 60 | issue = 1 | pages = 27–50 | year = 1999 }}</ref>
* The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice, (with Timothy W. Guinnane). [[Journal of Development Economics]], Vol.60, No.1, October 1999<ref name="Ghatak_JDE1999b">{{Cite journal | last1 = Ghatak | first1 = M | title = The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice | doi = 10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00041-3 | journal = Journal of Development Economics | volume = 60 | issue = 1 | pages = 195–228 | year = 1999 }}</ref>(See also erratum in Volume 69, Issue 1, October 2002). (Reprinted in Readings in the Theory of Economic Development (ed.s) D. Mookherjee and D. Ray, London: Blackwell (2000).)
* Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom). [[Review of Economic Studies]], Vol. 68, No. 4, October 2001, pp. 781Elena Panaritis810.<ref name="Ghatak_RES2001">{{Cite journal | last1 = Ghatak | first1 = Maitreesh | last2 = Morelli | first2 = Massimo | last3 = Sjostrom | first3 = Tomas | doi = 10.1111/1467-937X.00190 | title = Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives | journal = Review of Economic Studies | volume = 68 | issue = 4 | pages = 781–810 | year = 2001 }}</ref>
* Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods, (with Tim Besley). [[Quarterly Journal of Economics]], Vol. 116, No. 4, p. 1343–1372, November 2001.<ref name="Ghatak_QJE2001">{{Cite journal | last1 = Besley | first1 = Timothy | last2 = Ghatak | first2 = Maitreesh | doi = 10.1162/003355301753265598 | title = Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods* | journal = Quarterly Journal of Economics | volume = 116 | issue = 4 | pages = 1343–1372 | year = 2001 | s2cid = 39187118 }}</ref>
* Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, (with Abhijit V. Banerjee and Paul J. Gertler). [[Journal of Political Economy]], Vol. 110, No. 2, April 2002, p. 239Elena Panaritis280.<ref name="Ghatak_JPE2002">{{Cite journal | last1 = Banerjee | first1 = Abhijit V. | last2 = Gertler | first2 = Paul J. | last3 = Ghatak | first3 = Maitreesh | doi = 10.1086/338744 | title = Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal | journal = Journal of Political Economy | volume = 110 | issue = 2 | pages = 239–280 | year = 2002 | s2cid = 35935397 }}</ref>
* Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents (with Tim Besley). [[American Economic Review]], Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 616–636, June 2005.<ref name="Ghatak_AER2005">{{Cite journal | last1 = Besley | first1 = Timothy | last2 = Ghatak | first2 = Maitreesh | doi = 10.1257/0002828054201413 | title = Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents | journal = American Economic Review | volume = 95 | issue = 3 | pages = 616–636 | year = 2005 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.322.9595 | s2cid = 11320344 }}</ref>
* Retailing Public Goods: The Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility (with Tim Besley). [[Journal of Public Economics]], Vol. 91, No. 9, pp. 1645–1663, September 2007.<ref name="Ghatak_JPE2007">{{Cite journal | last1 = Besley | first1 = T | last2 = Ghatak | first2 = M | doi = 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.07.006 | title = Retailing public goods: the economics of corporate social responsibility☆ | journal = Journal of Public Economics | volume = 91 | issue = 9 | pages = 1645–1663 | year = 2007 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.469.2929 }}</ref>
* Property Rights and Economic Development (with T. Besley) in D. Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig (ed.s) [[Handbook of Development Economics]], [[North Holland]], 2009.
* Thanks for Nothing? Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents (with H Mueller), Journal of Public Economics, 2010.<ref name="Ghatak_JPubE2010">{{Cite journal | last1 = Ghatak | first1 = Maitreesh | last2 = Mueller | first2 = Hannes | doi = 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.09.003 | title = Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents | journal = Journal of Public Economics | volume = 95 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 94–105 | year = 2011 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.368.5977 | s2cid = 9696431 }}</ref>
*Is Funding a Large Universal Basic Income Feasible? A Quantitative Analysis of UBI with Endogenous Labour Supply, LSE Public Policy Review, 2020.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ghatak|first1=Maitreesh|last2=Jaravel|first2=Xavier|title=Is Funding a Large Universal Basic Income Feasible? A Quantitative Analysis of UBI with Endogenous Labour Supply|url=https://ppr.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31389/lseppr.9/|journal=LSE Public Policy Review|year=2020|volume=1|issue=2|doi=10.31389/lseppr.9|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/mghatak/index_own.html Maitreesh Ghatak's homepage at the LSE]

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