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Contact Details:

Office Indian Institute of Management D.H. Road Joka, Calcutta 700 104 Home A1/2 Karunamoyee Housing Salt Lake, Calcutta- 700 091

Academics

Academic Background:

Ph.D (Econ) University of Minnesota, U.S.A M. A (Econ) University of Calcutta B. A (Econ) Presidency College, Calcutta

Experience

Work Experience:

Visiting Professor, Shenzhen University, China; Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; Visiting Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Japan; Professor, University of Calcutta; Visiting Fellow, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India; Professor, Burdwan University, India; Associate Professor, Centre for Economic Studies, Presidency College, Calcutta; Associate Professor, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamsedpur, India; Research Associate, Teaching Associate University of Minnesota, U.S.A; Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta;

Research

Journal Publications:

Timing of Decisions and the Competitive Firm under Input Price Uncertainty, Economics Letters, 1984 Theory of Labour Managed Firms: Two Examples, Management and Labour Studies,1985 Technological Change and the Labour Managed Firm, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 1985 Fiscal Concessions on Saving and Expenditure Taxation, Discussion Paper, Presidency College, Calcutta, 1986 Deficit Financing, Administered Prices and Indirect Taxation, in M. Rakshit (ed), Studies in the Macroeconomics of Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1989. A Model of Corruption in an Investment Project, Discussion Paper, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, 1993. Mahalanobis on Mydral: Some Comments, in D.Bhattacharya (ed), Economy, Society and Planning, Progressive Publishers, Calcutta, 1994. Protection and Exports, Economic and Political Weekly, September, 1995. (With A. Sen) Choice of Organisational Form in Strategic Interaction, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, vol 32, 1997. Information Revolution in Economics and the New Perspective on Markets, Arthabeekshan, June 1997. (With A. Sen) Choice of Organisational Form, Decision, Jan-Dec, 1997. A False Dilemma of Economic Reform, Economic and Political Weekly, Sept 1997. Japan Grapples with Bank Reform, Economic and Political Weekly, Nov, 1998. Commodore Perry at the Bank: Japan’s Financial Liberalisation, Decision, Jan/Dec, 1998. Economic Development and Reform in India in the Light of Japan, Discussion Paper, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Japan, February, 1999. Arthanaitic Sanskar Prosonge (in Bengali), in D.Bhattacharya (ed) Bharater Arthaniti, Calcutta, Jan, 2000. Trade Liberalisation and Efficiency: A Theoretical Note, in J. Roy and M.R. Gupta (ed), Themes on Development, Calcutta, 2000. (With A. Sen) Managerial Discretion, Public Sector Reform and Industry Performance, The Indian Journal of Economics , July,2002. (With S. Chaudhury) Corruption in Investment: a Model, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Jan, 2003. Conflict or Confidence Trick: Reflections on the Indian Situation, in B. Chatterjee and K. Chattopadhyay (ed) Perspectives on Socialism, Calcutta, 2004. Contemporary Issues in Globalisation: Introduction to Theory and Policy in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005, 2nd edition, 2007 Foreign Capital Inflow into India: Determinants and Management, Report prepared for the project “Policy Research Networking: Macroeconomic Management and Government Finance”, Asian Development Bank & Ministry of Finance, Government of India, 2005. (Published in Macroeconomic Management and Government Finances, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009. ), Principles of Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006 National Income and Foreign Aid: a Macroeconomic Model, paper presented in Conference on Foreign Aid, WIDER, Helsinki, June, 2006. Evidence Against Expected Utility Theory: Survey and Interpretations, in Advances in Economics: New Directions in Theory and Practice, Calcutta, 2006. Globalisation , Growth and Jobs , Arthabeekshan, March 2007. International Foreign Capital Flows: a Theoretical Exercise, Working Paper, Institute of Social and Economic Research , Osaka University, Japan, Nov 2008. ( With A. Ghosh Dastidar) Occupational Choices of High School and College Students, Policy Futures in Education, vol 13,3, 2015

Research Interests:

Industrial organization theory, open economy macroeconomics

Books/Book Chapters:

Principles of Macroeconomics, Oxford India, second edition 2011 The Telecom Industry in the Era of Globalization with Special Reference to India in S. Banerjee and A. Chakrabarty (ed) Development and Sustainability in India, 2013 Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Management, Oxford India Short Introductions, 2013 Mundell-Fleming with Stock Market and Endogenous Risk Premium, in R.Acharyya and S. Marjit (ed) Trade, Globalization and Development, Springer India 2013 Openness and Growth in the Indian Economy, in A. Goyal (ed) Handbook of the Dynamic Indian Economy, Oxford India, 2014 Imbalances, Local and Global, in M. Roy and S. Sinha Roy (ed) International Trade and International Finance, Springer India, 2016