Background and Previous Experience
Arka Chatterjea works primarily in the fields of economics of higher education and financial economics. He earned his B.Sc. (Mathematics) from St. Xaviers College, M.A. (Economics) from Tufts University, and M.A.-Ph.D. (Economics) from Cornell. He was a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and he has held full-time professorial positions at CU Boulder, IU Bloomington, and UNC Chapel Hill. In addition, he was a short-term visitor at Cornell, the Helsinki School, Hong Kong UST, and IIM Ahmedabad, and he is a Research Fellow at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
A research award (AAII-FMA best Completed PhD Dissertation Grant) and teaching prize winner (Davenport Prize, Economics, Cornell), Arka has authored or co-authored research articles in international journals, a textbook on derivatives & risk management, and op-ed pieces in major newspapers.
Current Research at ILR
Arka is working on a book on challenges and issues facing Indian higher education. His earlier work on the topic (CHERI Working Paper #87) led to two articles, Academic Research (with S. P. Moulik) and Doctoral Education, that were published in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India (2007 & 2012).
Arkadev Chatterjea
