Dr Malvika Tyagi is an Economist with interest and expertise in applied research on issues laying at the intersection of Development Economics, Law and Economics and Political Economy. She has also done novel work on the Economics of crime in the Indian context, adopting a mixed methods approach, relying on an applied micro and behavioural economics perspective. She is currently expanding on this, and is also planning to venture into work on other public bads. Her overall academic outlook is grounded in the bidirectional role that institutions, both formal and informal, and individual behaviour (including that of state actors), play in shaping each other. Previously, she was visiting George Mason University as Affiliate faculty, prior to which, she was Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur, IISER Bhopal, Nalsar and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE. Her teaching interests include Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, along with exploring its different schools of thought. Her research has been published in journals such as Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Small Business Economics, Constitutional Political Economy, Journal of Biosocial Science, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Economic and Political Weekly. She has served as reviewer for journals such as Economics of Governance, Journal of Population Research, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, SN Business and Economics.