Lakshmi Iyer

Lakshmi Iyer is an economist in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary research fields are political economy and development economics, with a special emphasis on property rights institutions. She has published papers on the historical and current property rights institutions in developing countries such as India and Vietnam, and is currently analyzing the impact of property rights regimes in the Philippines and China. Her ongoing research also examines other legal and political institutions such as the bureaucracy and the legacy of colonial rule. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute.