Professor Avik Chakrabarti's research looks into theoretical as well as empirical questions that relate to the fields of international trade, finance, investment, and industrial organization. His current projects focus on multinational corporations. offshore outsourcing, and cross-border mergers. He has also taken a lead in laying out a blueprint for the foundation of co-creation thinking in economics — identified as the conception of Co-Creation Experience Economics. He earned his Bachelors and Masters in economics. ranking first in first class with record marks, from the Jadavpur University where he received the University Gold Medals for Undergraduate as well as Graduate Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and his doctoral dissertation received the International Trade Research Award (ITRA) from the Export-hnport (EXIM) Bank of India. His lectures span Ph.D. courses on Microeconomics, International Trade, and Industrial Organization; MBA courses on Applied Microeconomics; BBA courses on Applied Microeconomics; Undergraduate Intermediate courses on International Trade and Finance: Principles courses on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics; and Pre-college Introduction to Economics. He received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The European EC011011lie Review. Economic Theo Economics Letters, Economic Avail. Journal ofEconomic Behavior and Organi:ation, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Economica. Journal of Comparative Economics are among the journals that have published his research. His writings also consist of an entry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, published by the Princeton University Press and a chapter in India and the Global Economy. a volume that brought together invited presentations, at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, including the inaugural speech by the then Prime Minister of India and the valedictory address by the current President of India. 

International Trade and Investment; International Finance; Industrial Organization; Economic Systems; and Outsourcing