Professor Monojit Chatterji

Contact:
m.chatterji@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 384867
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

Monojit Chatterji is Bonar Professor of Applied Economics. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay with First Class Honours in Economics and Statistics. He won a British Council scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, to read for the Economics Tripos. He graduated with First Class Honours in Economics and was awarded a Christ's College studentship. He also obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Dundee he lectured at the University of Essex and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of California, Purdue, Vassar, and Oregon in the United States, ITAM in Mexico, and the Indian Statistical Institute.

Awards and Honours

Economics LTSN Annual Prize winner for Best Undergraduate course in the UK in 2000-01

Public Appointments

Chair, Joint Negotiating Council of UK Fire and Emergency Services
Member, School Teachers' Review Body
Member, Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal

External Affiliations

Member of the Royal Economic Society, American Economic Association, and European Association of Labour Economists
External examiner at the Universities of Essex and London
Member, BBC Governer's World Service Advisory Group
Research Coordinator for Education and Training, Scottish Economic Policy Network

Research

General research interests are in the economics of human resources and in economic development. Areas of expertise include the economics of education and training, trade unions and labour contracts, political economy of India and world development.

Recent publications

“A Note on Export Platform Foreign Direct Investment, Training, and Absorptive Capacity”, (with Catia Montagna), forthcoming Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2008.
“Training Hold Up and Social Labour Markets”, Labour Economics, Vol.15, No.2, April 08 , pp202-215.
“A Test of the Signalling Hypothesis”, with L.Singell and P.T.Seaman, Oxford Economic Papers, 55, p191-215, 2003
“Sickness, Absenteeism, ‘Presenteeism’ and Sick Pay”, with C.J.Tilley, Oxford Economic Papers, 54, p669-687, 2002
"Tertiary Education and Economic Growth", Regional Studies, 32, p349-354, 1998
"Training and Unions", with Alison Booth, Economic Journal, 108, p328-343, 1998
"Tryst with an Uncertain Destiny", The New Statesman 15 August 1997, p28-30
"Gateway to the Globe", The World Today, 53, p233-234, 1997