Symposium on Network Economics

Prof. Arun Chandrasekhar of Stanford University delivered the keynote address on, ‘Discovering what belongs in a story’, at the ‘Symposium on Network Economics’, being hosted by the Economics area of IIM Bangalore from 28^th to 29^th August 2025.

Dr. Arun Chandrasekhar is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His research focus includes social learning, informal finance, partial market completion, health behavior and redistribution, and more, mostly using experiments. Prof. Chandrasekhar was awarded the Infosys Prize 2024 in Economics for his research on the impact of networks on economic interactions in developing economies. His visit to IIMB for the symposium is part of the Infosys Prize Sabbatical Program, which aims to foster collaboration between Indian institutes and Infosys Prize Laureates.