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Sambit Bhattacharyya, BSc(CU), MA(DU), PhD(ANU)
Research Fellow, Australia South Asia Research Centre, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

Email: Sambit.Bhattacharyya@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Sambit Bhattacharyya head and shoulders
Sambit Bhattacharyya is a Research Fellow at the Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC) within The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, RSPAS. He graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2007. His PhD thesis was on "Theory and Empirics of Root Causes of Economic Progress", a topic on which he has published research articles in reputed international journals of the discipline. He is currently working on an ARC funded project "Social Safety Nets in India: Effectiveness, Nutritional Impact, and Political Economy" with Raghbendra Jha.

Research Interests

Comparative economic development, comparative politics, institutional economics, and poverty and nutrition with a special focus on India.

Key Publications

  • "Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation," (with Jeffrey Williamson) NBER Working Paper No. w14694, January, 2009.
  • "Institutions and Trade: Competitors or Complements in Economic Development?" (with Steve Dowrick and Jane Golley) Economic Record, forthcoming, 2009.
  • "Institutions, Diseases, and Economic Progress: A Unified Framework," Journal of Institutional Economics, 2009, 5(1): pp. 65-87.
  • "Unbundled Institutions, Human Capital and Growth," Journal of Comparative Economics, forthcoming, 2008.
  • "Deep Determinants of Economic Growth," Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11: pp. 587-590.
A complete list of downloadable papers can be found on Sambit Bhattacharyya's personal pages