Mumbai

Studying in Mumbai

Coordinator:
Prof. P.G. Babu, Ph.D.
Tel.: +91-22-28416521
Fax.: +91-22-28402752
Email.: ni.ca.rdigi(TA)ubab

Office:
Ms. Fabina D'Mello
Tel.: +91-22-28416576
Fax.: +91-22-28416310
Email.: ni.ca.rdigi(TA)ecifffos

Postal Address:
Student Office
IGIDR
Film City Road
Santoshnagar Goregaon (East)
Mumbai 400 065
INDIA

Thesis Areas:
Law and Economics of Institutions
Law and Economics of Development

Coordinator

P.G. Babu is an Associate Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and has held Adam Smith Chair Guest Professorship in Philosophy and Economics at University of Bayreuth, Germany. He visits the Institutes of Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg and the Erasmus University at Rotterdam, and coordinates the Law and Economics Program at IGIDR, which is a part of the Erasmus Mundus Consortium on European Masters and Doctoral Programs in Law and Economics. His Ph.D. is from Indian Institute of Science and has taught as visiting faculty at several institutions including IIM Ahmedabad and Madras School of Economics. His research interests include Microeconomic Theory with applications to Environment, Natural Resources and Law, Non-cooperative Game theory with applications to market design protocols such as bargaining, auctions, matching, and Information Economics. At IGIDR, he has organized several capacity building workshops in Law and Economics, apart from various specialized conferences and workshops on topics such as Social Norms and Institutional Structures, Peace Science and Game Theory.

Teaching Staff

Sripad Motiram is an Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Prior to working at IGIDR, he worked at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada). His areas of interest include Development Economics, Microeconomics and Applied Econometrics, with a particular emphasis on issues related to India. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA).

Shubhro Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at IGIDR. His areas of interest include Applied Microeconomics, Experimental and Development Economics. He has received a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1999 and completed his PhD in Economics at the Pennsylvania State University in 2006. His dissertation focused on how the price path of goods like airline tickets change as the proportion of high valuation buyers change and on how public projects are delayed when the cost of contribution gets reduced as the number of prior contributors increase. He has published in the Journal of Quantitative Economics and the Southern Economic Journal (forthcoming).

Jayati Sarkar is Associate Professor in Economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India. She has a Ph.D from the University of Southern California, USA. Her field of specialization is Institutional Economics and her current research interests are in corporate ownership and governance in emerging economies, business groups, public sector enterprise reforms and performance. She has published in several international journals among which are Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Economics of Transition, Pacific Basic Finance Journal, and International Review of Finance. She has also published several book chapters on banking and corporate governance.

Student Voices

"This LL.M. is definitely a first-class Master. Thanks to a nice, accessible and high calibre faculty coming from all over Europe and abroad, as well as very bright students fellows, the EMLE programme is though-provoking and pushes for students to continuously score off. In this respect, the programme is very challenging academically.

Last but not least, beyond a strong academic interest for this programme, this year was culturally one of the richest of my life. Indeed, I had the great opportunity to travel and study between three European countries and meet wonderful students from all over the world whith whom I built strong friendships.

Even before finishing the LL.M., I was offered the opportunity to pursue a Ph.D in European Law and Economics at the University of Paris II, an opportunity that I was happy to accept."

Aurélien Portuese
(France)

[EMLE Student 2008/2009]

EUA Joint Masters Programme

This project of the European University Association analysed the possibilities of joint degree programmes in Europe as innovative examples of inter-university cooperation and as pillars of the future European higher education development. EMLE was among the eleven programmes that were selected for this pilot project.

Accreditation by NVAO and ZEvA

In August 2004, the EMLE programme in Rotterdam and Ghent was accredited by the NVAO, the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Agency. The NVAO is the official agency in the Netherlands and Flanders to certify that a programme meets the quality criteria as formulated by the Dutch and Flemish government.
In February 2005 the EMLE programme in Hamburg was accredited by the ZEvA, the Central Accreditation Agency of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. The ZEvA is one of the official agencies in Germany to certify that a programme fulfils the national German quality standards set by the German Conference of the Ministers of Education.

Erasmus Mundus Masters Course

The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education. It aims to enhance quality in European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third countries. The programme is intended to strengthen European co-operation and international links in higher education by supporting high-quality European Masters Courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.

European Master

in Law & Economics