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Dr Anwesha Mukherjee

Anwesha Mukherjee
Chair of Student Staff Partnership Group (Spring 2023)

Office

EM 180

Areas of interest

Behavioural Economics; Economic Psychology; Cultural Economics; Contests; Entrepreneurship.

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising research on the role of various aspects of identity and personality in economic and political choice making. Broadly,

Cultural economics
Economic Psychology
Contests and conflicts
Survey studies 

Background

I am a researcher with primary interest in topics at the intersection of Economics and Psychology. Besides that, my published and ongoing research includes contest games, innovation and entrepreneurship. Methodology-wise, I am flexible between formal modelling and the designing and analysis of laboratory as well as survey experiments. I also enjoy working on metanalysis and review studies. I have taught both micro and macroeconomics as a postdoc at the Technical University of Munich before joining the University of Reading in 2023.

Academic qualifications

PhD (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; 2018)
MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India; 2014)
MSc (Indian Statistical Institute, India; 2012)
BSc (University of Burdwan, India; 2010)

Websites/blogs

Personal website

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