Dr Gaurav Ghosh is an economist with research, policy development, and private sector consulting experience. Before Krea, he was a Senior Economist at EY, the consulting firm. Before EY, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He has a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University, an MA from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a BA from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

In recent consulting assignments, Dr Ghosh has consulted with central government ministries on the impact of taxes on the Indian economy in diverse contexts. He has also set up a behavioural economics practice and consulted widely on the transfer pricing of financial transactions within MNCs. Other projects have delved into inter alia antitrust, the valuation of intellectual property, and asset-backed securitisations.

Energy and the environment have been constant themes in Dr Gaurav Ghosh’s non-consulting research. He has investigated topics in this area using surveys, experiments, concepts from behavioural economics, and a variety of econometric methods. One strand of research focuses on consumer demand for energy and energy-related products, with the intent of understanding divergences between stated and revealed preferences, and designing nudges towards higher adoption of environmentally friendly technologies. Other strands have looked into the design and testing of emissions trading markets under stochasticity, and the valuation of air pollution using hedonic methods.

Over the years, Dr Gaurav Ghosh has spoken at conferences and venues around the world and published papers in refereed journals. He has also written extensively in the financial papers on topics ranging from financial crises, through energy economics and negotiation strategies, to bitcoin.

Fields: Antitrust, Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Taxation

Methods: Choice & Laboratory Experiments, Discrete Choice & Spatial Econometrics, Surveys

Sectors: Automotive, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Renewables, Transportation

1. “Repurposing NSSO data for market definition in the Indian competition context,” Economic & Political Weekly, 2018, 53(38): 67-73

2. “Impact of green framing on consumer valuations of energy-saving measures,” with M. Harmsen-van Hout and R. Madlener, under review at European Journal of Marketing

3. “Measuring the investment impact of government tax policy,” with J. Mintz, India Tax Insights, 2016, 9: 40-43

4. “Understanding Energy Consumer Behavior through Economic AIXperiments,” with M. Harmsen-van Hout and C. Rosen, E.ON Energy Research Center Series, 2012, 5(1): March

5. “Analysis of Spatial Impacts on Investment and Economic Behavior,” with R. Madlener, C. Oberst, G. Sorda and Y. Sunak, E.ON Energy Research Center Series, 2012, 4(7): December

6. “Baseline requirements can hinder trades in water quality trading programs: Evidence from the Conestoga watershed,” with M. Ribaudo and J. Shortle, Journal of Environmental Management, 2011, 92(8): 2076-2084

Econometrics I (Krea University, 2021, 2022)

Behavioral Economics (Krea University, 2021, 2022)

Microeconomics I (Krea University, 2021, 2022)

Statistics for Economics (Krea University, 2020, 2021, 2022)