Experts

Tarun Ramadorai has a broad range of research interests in the areas of household finance, asset pricing, and international finance. He has published on these topics in a number of scholarly journals in Finance and Economics. In addition to his academic work, Tarun has taken on several advisory roles in the area of financial regulation and policy in both India and Europe.

Vasudha Ramakrishna is a Research Associate at the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). She works on research projects in development economics on technology adoption, behaviour change, and the evaluation of large-scale programs, under the supervision of Prof. Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, conducting data analysis and providing research support. Vasudha holds an MS in economics from Tufts University, where she worked on research relating to agricultural technology adoption, and

Kamalini Ramdas is Deloitte Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on identifying ways to expand access to healthcare and information services through business model innovation. She uses empirical methods including field experiments. She has served as Co-PI on a $1.2M grant to design and implement profitable cardiac preventive care. She is a Department Editor at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and President of the Manufacturing & Service Operations

Maria’s research focuses on the economics of crime, organized crime and corruption. Together with her co-authors, she has investigated the joint effect of organised crime and corruption on economic growth. Mara has published the following papers on the topic: a theory of organized crime, corruption and economic growth, and an empirical analysis of organized crime, corruption and economic growth. In another piece of empirical research she has investigated the determinants of crime versus

Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London, co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Research Programme Director in the Firms portfolio, at the International Growth Centre. His research interests include labor, development and public economics and his work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Review of

Christopher Rauh’s fields are Labor Economics and Political Economy. He works with complex datasets and applied methodologies, including machine learning and structural modelling. During the Covid19 outbreak he has been using repeated large geographically representative surveys to document the large and unequal impact of the pandemic on workers in the UK, the US, and Germany.