Rachel E. Kranton

Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3487
 

Rachel E. Kranton, Professor, received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and joined the faculty in the same year. Her research considers economic institutions and how personal relationships and the social setting affect economic outcomes. She teaches Microeconomic theory and industrial organization and also has interests in behavioral economics and development economics. In 1996-1997, she was a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, and in 2001-2002 she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.  Publications and working papers include: "A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks" (with Deborah Minehart), American Economic Review, 2001, "Economics and Identity" (with George Akerlof) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000; "The Hazards of Piecemeal Reform: British Civil Courts and the Credit Market in Colonial India" (with Anand Swamy), Journal of Development Economics, 1999; and "Reciprocal Exchange: A Self-Sustaining System," American Economic Review, 1996.

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