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Dilip Mookherjee

Dilip Mookherjee

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
62
Citations
18492
World Ranking
742
National Ranking
465

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Dilip Mookherjee is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. The subfields most prominently featured in their work include Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Accounting.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum, with particular attention to Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Land Rights and Reforms, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Politics and Society in Latin America, Social and Economic Development in India, Global Trade and Economics, and Auction Theory and Applications.

Recent publications by Dilip Mookherjee include:

  • Industrial clusters, networks and resilience to the Covid-19 shock in China (2021), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgets (2023), World Development
  • Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh (2021), American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Welfare rationales for conditionality of cash transfers (2021), Journal of Development Economics
  • Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgets (2021), Working Paper Series

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mookherjee include Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Sujata Visaria, Pranab Bardhan, and Anusha Nath, each with multiple joint publications.

Publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, with seven publications, the Journal of Development Economics with three publications, Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and World Development.

Dilip Mookherjee has been recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2008 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels

    Pranab K. Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Optimal Auditing, Insurance, and Redistribution

    Dilip Mookherjee;Ivan Png

  • A Decomposition Analysis of the Trend in UK Income Inequality

    Dilip Mookherjee;Anthony Shorrocks

  • Optimal Incentive Schemes with Many Agents

    Dilip Mookherjee

  • Corruptible Law Enforcers: How Should They Be Compensated?

    Dilip Mookherjee;I. P. L. Png

  • Decentralizing antipoverty program delivery in developing countries

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • DECENTRALISATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Decentralization and local governance in developing countries : a comparative perspective

    Pranab K. Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Decentralization, Hierarchies, and Incentives: A Mechanism Design Perspective

    Dilip Mookherjee

  • Decentralization, Corruption and Government Accountability

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Institutional Structure and the Logic of Ongoing Collective Action

    Jonathan Bendor;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Hierarchical decentralization of incentive contracts

    Nahum D. Melumad;Dilip Mookherjee;Stefan Reichelstein

  • Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Credit Rationing in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Theory

    Debraj Ray;Parikshit Ghosh;Parikshit Ghosh;Dilip Mookherjee;Dilip Mookherjee;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Learning behavior in an experimental matching pennies game

    Dilip Mookherjee;Barry Sopher

  • Inequality, Control Rights, and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra

    Abhijit Banerjee;Dilip Mookherjee;Kaivan Munshi;Debraj Ray

  • A theory of responsibility centers

    Nahum Melumad;Dilip Mookherjee;Stefan Reichelstein

  • Dominant Strategy Implementation of Bayesian incentive Compatible Allocation Rules

    Dilip Mookherjee;Stefan Reichelstein

  • Monitoring vis-a-vis Investigation in Enforcement of Law

    Dilip Mookherjee;I P L Png

  • Delegation as Commitment: The Case of Income Tax Audits

    Nahum D. Melumad;Dilip Mookherjee

Frequent Co-Authors

Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan University of California, Berkeley
Debraj Ray
Debraj Ray New York University
Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur
Maitreesh Ghatak
Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics and Political Science
Charles M. Kahn
Charles M. Kahn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stefan Reichelstein
Stefan Reichelstein University of Mannheim
Bhaskar Dutta
Bhaskar Dutta University of Warwick
Ivan P. L. Png
Ivan P. L. Png National University of Singapore
Xiaobo Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang Peking University

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