Prateek is an Assistant Professor in Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and IIMB Young Faculty Research Chair. He studies how businesses and markets evolve(d) in history, and in developing countries. He is also a Junior Fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Prateek earned his doctorate from University College London (UCL) in 2018, where he continues to be an Honorary Research Associate. During his PhD, he was affiliated to the Center for Economic History and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (2015-2018) as a Visiting Predoctoral fellow and the Stigler Centre at the University of Chicago as a Research Associate (2016-2018). Prior to his PhD, he earned his B.Tech. in Production and Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 2010. He worked as an operations consultant for clients in metals and mining industry (2010-2012), and has also taught operational research methods at the London School of Economics (LSE) (2012-2015).

​Contact me at prateekraj@iimb.ac.in

CV

 Updates (2018):

1. Article: Feature by ET's Dinesh Narayanan on “The Missing Metro - The key to India's growth story lies hidden in the hindi heartland”, Economic Times. 15th Nov, 2018.
2. Project: Received seed grant for "IIMB Quality of Governance"project at IIM Bangalore for Oct'18-Sept'19 to study historical determinants of governance.
3. Lecture: Evolution of Business and Markets Mini-Lectures, IIM Bangalore, 22nd, 26th & 29th Oct, 2018
4. Paper (Updated): Emergence of Impersonal Exchange, SSRN, 25th Aug, 2018
5. Paper (Updated): Origins of Impersonal Markets in Commercial and Communication Revolutions of Europe, Stigler Center Working Paper, 25th Aug, 2018
6. Research Note: Generalized Institutions and the nature of the Firm. 15th Aug, 2018
7. WEHC2018: Origins of Impersonal Markets in Commercial and Communication Revolutions of Europe (slides). 1st Aug, 2018
8. WEHC2018: Supply Chain Gridlocks: Story of India's Electrification (slides). 30th July, 2018
9. Joined IIM Bangalore on 18th July 2018 as Assistant Professor in Strategy and IIMB Young Faculty Research Chair.
10. Received PhD in Management ​on 28th July 2018 from University College London.
11. CAGE2018: Census and Salience of caste: India's Imagined Communities (slides). University of Warwick, 27th June, 2018
12. Thesis: The Friends we Make - Introduction, UCL, 21st June, 2018
13. ​Model: Intergenerational transmission of Social Identity, UCL, 21st June, 2018
14. ​Slides: Internet and the Business Model of Journalism. Hoover Institution (Stanford University), 30th May, 2018
15. Case: "How Lübeck faded, while Hamburg survived trade disruption from the Dutch" LSE Business Review. 12th Feb, 2018
16. Podcast: "This explains why modern markets developed where they did", Bloomberg, 15th Jan, 2018
17. Article: “The role of trade and information technology in the decline of merchant guilds”, VoxEU. 4th Jan, 2018