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Staff of the Max Planck Institute

Sameeksha Desai, Ph.D.

	Sameeksha Desai, Ph.D.
	Research Fellow
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Education

2008	PhD, George Mason University
2003	MS, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Research areas

• Public policy, institutions and entrepreneurship
• Destructive entrepreneurship
• Political economy of conflict

Research fellowship or grant awards

2006-2008	Kauffman Foundation and Max Planck Institute Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
2007	Ratio Institute award, 2007 Colloquium for Young Social Scientists
2006	University of Paris grant award
2004-2006	Ph.D Fellowship, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Selected publications

• Sany, J. and Desai, S. (forthcoming 2008) "Transnational Ethnic Groups and Conflict: The Zaghawa in Chad and Sudan", Conflict Trends.
• Desai, S., Stough, R.R. and Nijkamp, P. (forthcoming, 2008), "New Directions in Regional Economic Development: The Role of Entrepreneurship Research, Practice and Policy", Elsevier
• Mustaghis, U.R., Desai, S. and Stough, R.R. (forthcoming, 2009), "NGO Management: A South Asian Perspective".
• Acs, Z.J. and Desai, S. (forthcoming, 2007) "Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy", in Acs, Z.J. and Stough, R.R. (Eds) Policies for an Entrepreneurial Economy, Springer.
• Acs, Z.J., Audretsch, D.B., Phillips, R.J. and Desai, S. (2008), "The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism", in Shockley, G., Frank, P. and Stough, R.R (eds) Nonmarket Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar.
• Desai, S. (2005) "Introduction to the Potential of Microfinance in Postconflict Economies", Journal of Insurance and Risk Management, IV(7):189-210.
• Stough, R.R., Desai, S., Haynes, K., O’Neill, P., Sahay, N., Salazar, M., Sinha, S. and Thatchenkerry, T. (2004) Issues in Public Governance in India, monograph, AIMA.
• Desai, S. (2004) "Microfinance in Iraq", Global Studies Review, Fall.

Work in progress

• Desai, S. "Strengthening Institutions as Policy Response?"
• Desai, S. "Nontangible Capital in Postconflict Reconstruction "
• (with Acs, Z) "A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship"
• (with Eklund, J) "Measuring the Functional Efficiency of Capital Markets"
• (with Eklund, J) "Ownership, Economic Entrenchment and Allocation of Capital"
• (with Eklund, J. and Hogberg, A) "Allocation of Capital in Indian Firms, 1991-2007