Indradeep Ghosh

Biography

Education

B.A., St. Stephen's College, New Delhi

M.A., Girton College, University of Cambridge

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research

My research interests lie primarily in understanding the relationship between goods flows and capital flows in the modern world economy. One stream of my work examines the relationship between FDI and trade openness for developing countries. This paper is now published, but I continue to work on this relationship using more disaggregated data for FDI restrictions, and expanding my analysis to cover both developing and developed countries. Data on FDI restrictions can also help us identify the benefits of capital account liberalization, and I am currently working on uncovering evidence for such benefits. The other stream of my research examines the relationship between the trade account and the capital account in the presence of imperfect substitutability between assets. In one paper, I lay out a model of the current account and analyze how the model responds to a standard menu of shocks. This paper is under review. Currently, I am using the same model and simulated GMM techniques to estimate key parameters such as the degree of substitutability between assets. At Haverford, I teach courses in Money & Financial Markets, Open Economy Macro, and Introductory Macro. In Fall 2008, I am teaching a new elective called "Computational Methods in Macroeconomics & Finance".

Courses: Fall 2009, Haverford

Courses: Spring 2010, Haverford