Arkadev Chatterjea is interested in applied economics, including financial economics and the economics of education.

He is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a visiting fellow and an affiliated faculty member at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). He has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Indiana University Bloomington, and served as a visiting professor at Cornell University.

He has twice won the Davenport Prize for the outstanding teaching assistant in economics at Cornell and received the AAII-FMA best dissertation prize. He has published papers in leading international finance journals, and written op-ed articles for several major Indian newspapers.

Currently, he is collecting data and material for book on higher education in India and neighboring countries.

He holds a PhD and an MA in economics from Cornell. He earned an MA in economics from Tufts University and a BSc in mathematics with honors from St. Xavier's College at the University of Calcutta.