Chetan Ghate

Assistant Professor Planning Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi 7 Shaheed Jit Singh Marg New Delhi, 110016

Phones: (91-11)-41493938 Room No. 214 . Fax: (91-11)-41493981 E-mail: cghate"at" isid "dot" ac "dot" in

Chetan Ghate received his Ph.D in Economics in 1999 from Claremont Graduate School, California. He joined the Planning Unit Faculty in 2003. His research focuses on macroeconomic theory and policy, political economy, public finance and the economics of structural change. He is also interested in the role that political constitutions have on capital accumulation.

He teaches courses in macroeconomics, political economy, and macrodynamics.

"Transitional Dynamics in a Growth Model with Distributive Politics", December 2005. 
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Published Papers

Entry for The Time Inconsistency Problem, in The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Eds. Ramkishen Rajan and Kenneth Reinert, Princeton University Press. Forthcoming, 2007

Education, Growth and Redistribution in The Presence of Capital Flight. With Debajyoti Chakrabarty and Areendam Chanda. Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 6(2), Article 14, p. 1-40, Berkeley Electronic Press, November 2006.

Book Chapter: Endogenous Distribution, Politics and Growth, with Satya P. Das, pp. 223-250, in Studies in Macroeconomics and Welfare, edited by BB Bhattacharya and Arup Mitra, Academic Foundation Press, 2005.

The Welfare State, Thresholds, and Economic Growth. With Tatiana Fic. Economic Modelling, Vol. 22(3), pp. 571-598, May 2005.

Endogenous Distribution and Equilibrium Growth: A Note. Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 57(2), pp. 171-183, April 2005.

Endogenous Distribution, Politics, and the Growth-Equity TradeOff. With Satya P.Das. Contributions to Macroeconomics, Vol. 4(1), Article 6, Berkeley Electronic Press, July 2004.

Optimal Fiscal policy in an Economy Facing Sociopolitical Instability. With Quan Vu Le and Paul J.Zak. Review of Development Economics, Vol. 7(4), pp.  583-595, November 2003.

The Politics of Endogenous Growth. Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 3(1),  Article 9, Berkeley Electronic Press,  August 2003.

The Growth of Government and the Politics of Fiscal Policy. With Paul J.Zak. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 13(4), pp. 435-455, December 2002.

Lobbying, The Composition of Government Expenditures, and the Politics of Fiscal Policy. Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 40(2), pp. 133-145, June 2001.

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Other Publications

Book Review for Globalization and its Enemies by Daniel Cohen, MIT Press (2006), Cambridge, MA. Forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007.

Book Review for Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 88(1), 272-274, February 2006.

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Teaching

Macro II (2003)

Macrodynamics (2004)

Topics workshop (2004)

Conferences

2006 PPRU/ISI 3rd Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

2006 PPRU/ISI 2nd Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

2006 CSH/ISI Conference on Liberalization Experiences in Asia

2004 PPRU/ISI 1st Annual Conference on Growth, Development and Macroeconomic Policy