| Teaching &Research Information |
Teaching Interest
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- Economics of Private & Public
Expenditure
- Microeconomics
- Investment & Planning
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Research Interest
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- 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".
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| Publications |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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
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