Abhijit Tagade is a third year PhD student at LSE who works on innovation. Prior to LSE, he completed Master APE at Paris School of Economics / EHESS, where specialized in theory and history. He also holds an MA from Columbia University, an MA in Education from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Madras. He did his predoctoral research at the Collège de France and worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.

His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, microeconomics and labour. He studies how competitive environments faced by inventors and organizations shape the direction and evolution of technologies and the flow of capital. He also works on unequal opportunity, and how it relates to growth.

Research Interests
Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Networks

Working Papers
Innovation Networks and Business-Stealing. (2023). CEPR Discussion Paper DP17911. With Philippe Aghion, Matthew O. Jackson and Antoine Mayerowitz.
Foreign competition and R&D specialization. With Antoine Mayerowitz.
Financial spillovers in innovation networks. With Bijan Aghdasi.

Supervisor(s)
Philippe Aghion

Xavier Jaravel

Research Centres
Centre of Economic Performance
STICERD

Teaching
EC1A3: Microeconomics I
EC1P1: Economics

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