Who is Ritwik Banerjee? IIM Bangalore professor appointed as the associate editor of JEBO; all you need to know

Ritwik Banerjee, an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, has been appointed as the associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO). JEBO is a highly respected academic journal that publishes research on economic decision-making, organizational processes, human behavior, and economic change. Banerjee's appointment further highlights the journal's commitment to incorporating behavioral and development economics perspectives in its research.

Banerjee has a rich academic background, having earned his bachelor's degree in economics and master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and a second master's degree from Iowa State University in 2009. He later completed his PhD in economics at Aarhus University in Denmark. Before joining IIM Bangalore, Banerjee worked as a research associate at the Institute for Compete Regional Economy (ICRIER), as a consultant at the World Bank Group, and as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the University of California, Berkeley.

His research primarily focuses on behavioral and development economics, employing extensive use of experimental methods to study issues such as corruption, inequality, education, and discrimination. Banerjee's work also delves into social preferences, social norms, social identity, status, reference dependence, public economics, development economics, and public policy.

By applying psychological insights to questions of corruption, affirmative action, self-confidence, competition, and gender, Banerjee contributes to a deeper understanding of various economic phenomena.