Research Areas:
Development, Inequality, Contract Theory

Prof. Dilip Mookherjee received his PhD in Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science in 1982. He has taught at Stanford University and the Indian Statistical Institute before joining the Boston University (BU) in 1995. He is currently a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Institute for Economic Development in BU.

Prof. Mookherjee’s research interests include development, inequality, contract theory. He has authored or co-edited 11 books including Market Institutions, Governance, and Development: Collected Essays (2006), The Crisis in Government Accountability: Essays on Governance Reforms and India’s Economic Performance (2004) and Incentives and Institutional Reform in Tax Enforcement: An Analysis of Developing Country Experience (1998). He is also the Co-editor of Theoretical Economics and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics.

Prof. Mookherjee was elected a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2001, of The Econometric Society in 2008, and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2015. In 2010-2013, he was the President of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. Since 2017, he has been elected to the Council of The Econometric Society. He is also currently the Lead Academic for the International Growth Centre's India Central Program, the Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in US and the Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in UK.