Brief bio
Sanket Mohapatra is a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was earlier a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Global Macroeconomics Team in Washington, DC. He graduated with an M.A from the Delhi School of Economics and a Ph.D in Economics from Columbia University (New York). His research interests include international finance, international macroeconomics, global capital flows, sovereign and sub-sovereign credit ratings, corporate productivity, foreign debt and corporate financing patterns in emerging economies, poverty, inequality and economic growth, and international migration and remittances. He has contributed to various issues of the World Bank’s flagship reports such as Global Economic Prospects and Global Development Finance. He was a core team member of Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments and co-editor of the volume on Remittance Markets in Africa, published as part of the World Bank’s Directions in Development Finance series. He is an Associate Editor of Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers. His research has been published in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Money & Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and World Development.