Shankha Chakraborty

University of Oregon - Department of Economics

Professor

Eugene, OR 97403

United States

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Bank-Based Versus Market-Based Financial Systems: A Growth-Theoretic Analysis

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Nov 2002
Shankha Chakraborty and Tridip Ray
University of Oregon - Department of Economics and Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi - Delhi Centre
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Financial System, Income Distribution, Banks, Market Finance

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The Quality of Public Investment

IMF Working Paper No. 09/154
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Aug 2009
Shankha Chakraborty and Era Dabla-Norris
University of Oregon - Department of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Corruption, Economic growth, Economic models, Governance, Government expenditures, Infrastructure, Low-income developing countries, Private investment, Public investment

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Inequality, Industrialization and Financial Structure

University of Oregon, Economics Working Paper No. 2003-2
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Sep 2003
Shankha Chakraborty and Tridip Ray
University of Oregon - Department of Economics and Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi - Delhi Centre
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Inequality, Industrialization, Financial, Development, Financial Structure, Bank Finance, Market Finance, Credit Frictions

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Rent Seeking

IMF Working Paper No. 05/43
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Shankha Chakraborty and Era Dabla-Norris
University of Oregon - Department of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Rent seeking, income distribution

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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality

University of Oregon Economics Working Paper No. 2003-11
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Oct 2003
Shankha Chakraborty and Mausumi Das
University of Oregon - Department of Economics and University of Delhi - Delhi School of Economics
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Life Expectancy, Health, Human Capital, Income Distribution

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Contraception and the Fertility Transition

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Jan 2014
Joydeep Bhattacharya and Shankha Chakraborty
Iowa State University - Department of Economics and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
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child mortality, fertility, demographic transition, contraception

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Costly Intermediation and the Poverty of Nations

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Jun 2002
Shankha Chakraborty and Amartya Lahiri
University of Oregon - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics
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Relative Income, Agency Costs, Credit Frictions, Public Capital

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What Do Information Frictions Do?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 May 2003
Joydeep Bhattacharya and Shankha Chakraborty
Iowa State University - Department of Economics and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
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costly state verification, efficiency wages, dynamics, frictions

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A Rational-Choice Model of COVID-19 Transmission with Endogenous Quarantining and Two-sided Prevention

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Aug 2020
Joydeep Bhattacharya, Shankha Chakraborty and Xiumei Yu
Iowa State University - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - Department of Economics and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
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COVID, inequality, infection risk, quarantine

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Fertility Choice Under Child Mortality and Social Norms

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2011
Joydeep Bhattacharya and Shankha Chakraborty
Iowa State University - Department of Economics and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
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child mortality, fertility, demographic transition, social norms

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Childhood Disease and the Precautionary Demand for Children

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2012
Anna-Maria Aksan and Shankha Chakraborty
Fairfield University and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
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Infectious Disease, Child Mortality, Morbidity, Fertility, Precautionary Demand, Quantity-Quality Tradeoff, Demographic Transition

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Battling Infection, Fighting Stagnation

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Oct 2010
Shankha Chakraborty, Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Perez‐Sebastian
University of Oregon - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Universidad de Alicante - Department of Economic Analysis
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Infectious Disease, Morbidity, Mortality, Productivity, Policy Analysis

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Aspirations, Health and the Cost of Inequality

Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Jeffrey C. Allen and Shankha Chakraborty
Bentley University and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
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Inequality, Aspirations, Consumption externality, Health, Grossman model, Relative income and health gradient, Heterogeneous agents

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Asset Price Volatility in a Nonconvex General Equilibrium Model

Posted: 25 Oct 1998
Costas Azariadis and Shankha Chakraborty
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and University of Oregon - Department of Economics

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