Soumitra Kumar Mallick
 
Email sk_mallick@yahoo.com,smallick@iiswbm.edu
Teaching &Research Information
Teaching Interest
  • Economics of Private & Public Expenditure
  • Microeconomics
  • Investment & Planning
Research Interest
  • Dynamic General Equilibrium Theory
  • Economics of Uncertainty
  • Investment including choice of Technology
  • Growth Theory
  • Financial Economics of Public & Private Sectors in "established and emerging economies".
Educational Qualifications
Doctorate (Economics) - 1993 Department of Economics,
New York University, USA.

Dissertation Title :
"Bounded Rationality & Arrow-Debreu Economies" (Three essays on the interaction of information and incomplete markets)

Thesis supervisor : Prof.Yaw Nyarko.

Masters of Arts (Economics) - 1989  
Chartered Accountant Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, 1985 
(equivalent to a M.Phil degree in commerce as recognised by the Association of Indian Universities)
B.Com.(Honours) - 1983  University of Calcutta, India
Honours & Prizes:
  • Development Fellow, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Dept. of Economics, New York University, 1989-90.
  • Graduate Fellow, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1986-88
  • National Merit Prize, Govt. of India, School Final examination, 1978.
Publications
  • On personal request only
Teaching and Administration
  • Research Associate, Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Kolkata 1993-1995
  • Lecturer including examiner in Industrial & Labour Economics of Post Graduate Diploma course in Social Welfare, and, Managerial Economics, Investment Management, Business & Government & Finance Project of  MBA, of Calcutta University, at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Kolkata, 1995-2000.
  • Senior Lecturer, 2000 onwards.
  • Completed a winter school in Quantitative Economics of the Econometric Society, India & South Asia , held at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 2001 and training programmes conducted by the All India Council of Technical Education and National Stock Exchange of India Limited.
  • Guided seven Masters degree projects in Business Administration (Finance) of Calcutta University and Anna Malai University.
  • Moderated ten working papers under the New Economic Papers series of Repec (Microeconomics, Dynamic General Equilibrium, Finance & Public Finance)
  • Chaired two sessions at the Far Eastern meetings of the Econometric Society in Kobe, Japan, 2001 on Evolutionary Economics & Direct Foreign Investment.
  • Faculty 
      Induction Training programme 2000 for junior faculty of Management schools held by the All India Council of Technical Education.

      Undergraduate courses as adjunct lecturer at the College of Arts & Sciences, New York University, in Principles of Economics and Intermediate Microeconomics.
  • Coordinated the Public Sytems Management programme at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management between 1995 and 2000 in its formative years.
Research Grants Received
  • Travel Grant received from organisers of S&SE Asia Econometric Society meetings in Lahore, Pakistan to present paper and chair session on Economic Theory in 2002
  • Grant in aid received jointly from Planning Commission, Govt. of India, to carry out the study "Financial Fragility, Asset Bubbles & the Real Rate of Growth : A study of the Indian Economy 1970-2000"in 2002.
  • Travel Grant received jointly from Kobe University, Japan & Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management for presenting paper at the Far Eastern Meeting of The Econometric Society, Kobe, Japan, in 2001
  • Travel Grants received from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi to present papers at the Annual conferences in New Delhi in 1994 & 1996.
Research Work-in-Progress
  • "Increasing the web utilisation of the Econometric Society conferences " note presented to the Committee on new ideas for improving the quality of web utilisation of the Econometric Society at the invitation of  A.Rubinstein. (Areas -Teaching of Economics, Investment)
  • "Financial Fragility in Indian Stock Markets:the decade of the nineties" coauthored with A.Sarkar & K.K.Roy is forthcoming in a conference volume by Australia South Asia Research Centre on the Indian Economy, 2002. (Areas – Financial Economics, Indian Economics, Econometrics)
  • "Financial Fragility, Asset Bubbles & the Real Rate of Growth : A study of the Indian Economy 1970-2000", joint historical mega project completed for the Planning Commission of India in 2001. (Areas – Planning, Financial Economics, Indian Economics, Econometrics).
  • "Optimal Growth with endogenous participation : choice of Technology ", paper  presented at the Far Eastern Meetings of the Econometric Society, Kobe, Japan,2001, (Areas – Optimal Growth, Technology Choice, Dynamic Macroeconomics,Planning)
  • "Observability and existence of equilibrium under bi-annual planning with incomplete markets", paper to be presented at the S&SE Asian Meetings of the Econometric Society, Lahore, Pakistan, 2002(Dynamic Incomplete Market Theory, Financial Economics, Planning, Market Structure)
  • "Integrating Markov Processes and Expected Utility Analysis ", paper presented at the Statistics-Economics Conference, Kalyani University, 2000 (being revised for Economic Theory) (Areas  - Dynamic Microeconomics,Applied Probability Theory).
  • "Historical specificity of existence of Arrow-Debreu equilibrium in Agrarian economies" paper presented at the annual economic theory conference at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, 1994 (Areas – Dynamic General Equilibrium theory)
  • "Observability & Existence under bi-annual planning and incomplete asset markets", (presented at the annual economic theory conference Indian Statistical Institute) (Areas – Incomplete Markets, Planning, Industrial Organisation, Finance, Mathematical Economics)
  • "Predicting private entry into health care & the law of demand : some distributional issues" abstract published in the proceedings of the First Indian Public Health Congress, Calcutta, 1997 (Areas – Public Economics, Industrial Organisation, Mathematical Economics)
  • "Bounded Rationality & Arrow-Debreu Economies" three essays – Ph.D. dissertation published in microfiche form by UMI Inc. (Areas – Public Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Economics of Institutions, Information & Uncertainty).
  • "On Land & Life : life expectancy, population policy & the land-labour ratio" coauthored with J. Dutta,mimeo,Fund-Bank Library, Washington,D.C., U.S.A.,Population Index, 55(2), 55:20127, 1989
Lectures Delivered
  • Lecture on the Union Budget proposals of the Govt. of India, Bharat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Calcutta 2001.
  • Lecture on Globalisation and the Indian Economy, seminar organised jointly by Rotary International, British Executive Services Overseas organisation and Federation of Small Industries of India, Calcutta 2001.
  • Lecture on Economic Policy & Business was delivered to Refresher Course  participants under the All India Council of Technical Education in 2001.
Professional Activities
  • Members of Econometric Society & of Royal Economic Society.
  • Series Editor for NEP-MAC and NEP-IAS of REPEC.
  • Chaired two sessions on Direct Foreign Investment and Evolution of Economic Institutions, at the recently concluded Far Eastern Meetings of the Econometric Society in Kobe, Japan 2002.
  • Chair for the session on Economic Theory at the S&SE Asia meetings of the Econometric Society, Lahore, Pakistan, 2002