Ashok Bardhan, senior research associate, Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics

Ashok Bardhan is senior research associate in the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He has an MS in physics and mathematics from Moscow, Russia; an M.Phil in international relations from New Delhi, India; and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.

Bardhan's research includes papers on the impact of offshoring on jobs, wages and firm organization; global financial integration and real estate; urban housing; and trade and technology linkages between the U.S., China and India. He is co-author of a book, “Globalization and a High-Tech Economy: California, US and Beyond” (2004), and co-editor of the forthcoming books “One World, One Crisis? The Global Housing Market Meltdown” and the “Oxford Handbook on Global Employment and Offshoring."

His current research projects include linkages between the higher education sector and jobs, and the determinants of sustainable urban development.