Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics at Boston University since 1995 and the Director of the Institute of Economic Development at Boston University since 1998. He graduated from the Delhi School of Economics and the London School of Economics where he received his PhD in 1982. He taught at Stanford University from 1982 to 1989, the Indian Statistical Institute in New Delhi from 1989 to 1995. He is Fellow of the Econometric Society, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Mahalanobis Memorial Award of the Indian Econometric Society.
He is currently President of BREAD (Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development). He has held visiting professor positions at Centre for Studies in Social Science at Calcutta and at the People's University in Beijing. Dilip Mookherjee is an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and the B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics. His current research interests include development, inequality and public policy in various contexts such as land reform, local governance, deforestation, finance, microcredit, agricultural marketing, middlemen and trade. Published books include Market Institutions, Governance and Development (Oxford Univ Press 2006), and Incentives and Institutional Reform in Tax Enforcement (Oxford University Press 1998). Dilip Mookherjee has had over fifty refereed papers published in the top journals and has published eleven books as editor or co-editor, as well as writing chapters in a host of other books. He is the author most recently of The Crisis in Government Accountability: Governance Reforms and Indian Economic Performance.
