Editorial : Profile

Amartya Lahiri is the Director of CAFRAL (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning) in Mumbai, India and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to this, he has held appointments at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His primary areas of research are macroeconomics, international economics, and development economics. Lahiri has worked on inflation stabilisation programmes, exchange rate management, policy responses to balance of payments crises, financial crisis, economic growth theory, and cross-country differences in income and productivity levels.