The Department of Economics at Ashoka University 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, theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, monetary economics, economic growth, development economics, time-series econometrics and different areas of applied microeconomics and 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’s research activities.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Maastricht University
Parush Arora
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Yatish Arya
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
PhD University of Warwick
Sneha Bakshi
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Texas, Dallas
Biswajit Banerjee
Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
D.Phil, University of Oxford
Piyali Banerjee
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Alabama
Arghya (Argo) Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Mihir Bhattacharya
Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
Abhinash Borah
Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Lalit Contractor
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. John Hopkins University
Aparajita Dasgupta
Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Ashwini Deshpande
Head of the Department, Economics and Professor of Economics, Ashoka University Founding Director, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Delhi School of Economics
Bhaskar Dutta
Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Delhi
Srijita Ghosh
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. New York University
Bhanu Gupta
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Sanyyam Khurana
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Delhi School of Economics
Ratul Lahkar
Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kanika Mahajan
Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
Bipasha Maity
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Prachi Mishra
Professor of Economics, Director and Head of the Isaac Center for Public Policy, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Ronit Mukherji
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Digvijay Singh Negi
Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Saish Nevrekar
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. VU Amsterdam and IGIDR
Ayush Pant
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Warwick
Abhishek Rai
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Bharat Ramaswami
Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
S.K. Ritadhi
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley
Devesh Roy
Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park
Anuradha Saha
Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
Anisha Sharma
Associate Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Oxford
Suraj Shekhar
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Anshumaan Tuteja
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Warwick
Priyam Verma
Assistant Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Ashoka’s 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.
The Economics Department of Ashoka University 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 (ICPP) at Ashoka University 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 — academic programs and executive education, policymakers-led research including policy case studies and briefs, and public policy events.