Dilip Ravindran

Dilip Ravindran is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Business and Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin. His academic background includes a PhD in Economics from Columbia University (2021) and a Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley (2015). His research focuses on Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Behavioral Economics, and experimental methods. He has collaborated on projects analyzing persuasion in strategic settings, choice overload in consumer behavior, delegation mechanisms in voting systems, and information aggregation in alternative democratic frameworks.

Education

• PhD in Economics, Columbia University, 2015–2021
• Bachelor's Degree, University of California, Berkeley, 2011–2015

Research Interests

Ravindran explores theoretical and empirical questions at the intersection of behavioral and political economics. His work employs experimental methods to study decision-making under uncertainty, strategic communication, and institutional design. He investigates how information flows and delegation mechanisms impact collective outcomes in markets and democracies.

Key Research Trends

Ravindran’s recent papers address competitive persuasion in game-theoretic contexts, testing behavioral hypotheses about choice complexity, and analyzing novel voting systems that allow delegation (liquid democracy). His experimental work combines formal theoretical models with empirical validation to inform policy and institutional design.

Labs/Teams

He is affiliated with the Microeconomics Research Group at Humboldt University, collaborating on projects blending theoretical economics with experimental validation.