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Sujata VISARIA
Assistant Professor
Email: svisaria@ust.hk

Ph.D.   2005, Economics, Columbia University
M.Phil. 2003  Economics, Columbia University
M.A.    1998  Economics, Delhi School of Economics,
                    University of Delhi 
B.A.     1996  Economics (Honours), Miranda House,
                    University of Delhi


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Assistant Professor, Economics, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2009 – present
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy and Ross School of Business, University of Michigan,  2008-2009
  • Assistant Professor, Economics, Boston University, 2005-2009
     
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Institutional Economics, Financial Economics, Welfare and Poverty 


PUBLICATIONS

  • The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals (with Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal and Dilip Mookherjee), Boston University IED Discussion Paper No. 183, University of Michigan IPC Working Paper No. 85. BREAD Working Paper No. 254, Forthcoming, Econometrica.
  • Legal Reform and Loan Payment: The Microeconomics Impact of Debt Recovery Tribunals in India, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2009, pp. 59-81.
  • Inter Country Comparisons of Poverty based on a Capability Approach (with Sanjay Reddy and Muhammad Asali). In Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen (editors: Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur), 2009, Oxford University Press.
  • Segregation, Rent Control and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City (with Erica Field, Matthew Levinson and Rohini Pande), American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), May 2008, pp. 505-510.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Potato Farmers" (with Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, and Maximo Torero).
  • Borrower Selection and Impacts of Agent-intermediated versus Group Lending: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Alberto Motta).
  • Assessing the Relative Importance of Information and Credit Constraints: An Empirical Study of Agricultural Sales (with Dilip Mookherjee and Sandip Mitra).
  • Effects of Lay Theories, Segregation, and Incentive Mechanisms on Human Capital Formation (with Melody M. Chao, Rajeev Dehejia and Anirban Mukhopadhyay).
  • Flames, Fear and Flight: Understanding the Economics of Religious Conflict (with Erica Field, Matthew Levinson and Rohini Pande).

TEACHING AT UST

  • Economic Development and Growth (ECON 4434) Fall 2011
  • Microeconomics (ECON 2013) Spring 2012

 

CURRICULUM VITAE