People

Academic Staff

Parantap Basu (Director) researches issues such as inequality and growth, finance and growth, FDI and growth, education and growth, malnutrition and growth. Parantap was a member of the scientific committee for advising European Commission during 2010-2011.

Anurag Banerjee is the centre's lead econometrician. He also has an active interest in education and agricultural policy.

Guido Cozzi works on endogenous growth, dynamic macroeconomics, innovation, intellectual property rights, indeterminacy and sunspot equilibria. He is a top 10% Repec author in the field of innovation and intellectual property rights.

Richard Harris' research focuses on estimates of productivity at the firm-level, and how to use these to consider issues such as productivity growth in the UK due to inward FDI, and differences in such growth across spatial areas.

Daniel Li, researches on contract theory, industrial organization, as well as the incentive and institutional issues in development.

Laura Marsiliani researches environmental economics - pertinent for understanding the link between environment, health and growth.

Anamaria Nicolae works on exploring the effects of disinflationary monetary policies on output growth and the optimal speed of disinflation in new-Keynesian DSGE models.

Les Reinhorn and Thomas Renstrom's research area is public finance wtih direct public policy implications for growth.

Eshref Trushin's interests lie in Corporate Finance, Industrial Organisation, Innovation and International Development.

Post DoctoralResearch Fellow

Yoseph Getachew researches infrastructure, distribution and growth.

PhD Students/Teaching Assistants

Sakib Amin researches electricity consumption and socio-economic development in Bangladesh
Shesadri Banerjee researches monetary policy and inflation
Brett Manning researches inequality and financial crisis
Eun Young Oh researches growth and financial liberalization
Agnirup Sarkar researches economic development and the Stock Market.
Sigit Wibowo researches the impact of risk-sharing in social networks to household welfare
Manzoor Ahmed researches the political economy of fiscal decentralisation and its relationship with poverty

Academic Visitors

Stephen Millard, Senior Economist at the Bank of England and Visiting Professor at Durham University Business School

Advisory Board