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Department of Economics

The Department of Economics at Ashoka University has 29 permanent faculty members, with research and teaching interests that span a broad range of fields which include economic theory, game theory, behavioral economics, experimental economics, theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, monetary economics, economic growth, development economics, time-series econometrics and different areas of applied microeconomics and financial economics.

The department offers a major in Economics and interdisciplinary majors in Economics & Finance, Economics & History, and in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (PPE). At the graduate level, the department offers MA in Economics and Ph.D. in Economics. This website provides more information about those programs, the faculty, and the department’s research activities.

Programmes

Faculty at Economics

Discussion Paper Series

Ashoka’s department of Economics is filled with learned faculty members whose insights in applied, theoretical & modern Economics have far-reaching implications. Click on the tab below to read different discussion papers from recent years.

Centre for Economic Data and Analysis

The Economics Department of Ashoka University has set up the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) with the primary aim of facilitating informed debate about economic and social developments in India. To this end, CEDA has developed a public data repository along with a visualization toolkit that is accessible, searchable, interactive, and will be of use to researchers, journalists, policymakers, students, and others.

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For any queries regarding Economics department, please contact:-

Heena Arya

Department Manager

heena.arya@ashoka.edu.in

Puneet Kaur

Department Manager

puneet.kaur@ashoka.edu.in

If you have queries specific to the Economics, or the Economics and Finance programme, please reach out to:-

Economics Student Representatives

econreps@ashoka.edu.in

If you have queries specific to the PPE major, please reach out to:-

PPE Student Representatives

ppe.rep@ashoka.edu.in

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