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AVIK CHAKRABARTI
Associate Professor of Economics and Affiliated Faculty, Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute
College of Letters & Science
Current Faculty or Staff Member
Dr. Avik Chakrabarti’s research looks into theoretical as well as empirical questions that relate to the fields of industrial organization, international trade, finance, and investment. His current projects focus on multinational corporations, offshore outsourcing, standardization, divisionalization, and cross-border mergers. He has also taken a lead in laying out a blueprint for the foundation of co-creation thinking in economics – identified as the conception of Co-Creation Experience Economics.
The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Northwestern University, Jadavpur University, Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, and the World Bank are among leading institutions that have hosted Chakrabarti’s presentations.
Chakrabarti earned his Bachelors and Masters in economics, ranking first in his class with record marks, from the Jadavpur University where he received the University Gold Medals for Undergraduate as well as Graduate Studies. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and his doctoral dissertation received the International Trade Research Award from the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India. Since then, he has supervised more than 35 Doctoral Dissertations, more than 30 MA Theses, and more than 100 Undergraduate Research Studies.
Chakrabarti’s lectures at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) as well as the University of Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee) include PhD courses on Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, and International Trade; MBA courses on Applied Microeconomics; BBA courses on Applied Microeconomics; Undergraduate Intermediate courses on Industrial Organization, and International Trade and Finance; Principles courses on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics; and Pre-college Introduction to Economics.
Chakrabarti received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). The European Economic Review, Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, Economics Letters, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Journal of Comparative Economics are among the journals that have published his research. His writings also consist of an entry in the “Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy,” published by the Princeton University Press and a chapter in “India and the Global Economy,” a volume that brought together invited presentations, at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, including the inaugural speech by the Prime Minister of India and the valedictory address by the President of India.