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Personal Details:

I am a faculty member in the Economics Group at IIM Calcutta, specializing in Macroeconomics and Macro-Finance. My research focuses on contemporary issues in macro-finance, with interests spanning Bayesian time-series econometrics, GDP nowcasting, developing DSGE models with financial frictions and banking, task-based models, geopolitical risk, and global supply chains. Recently, I have also developed a keen interest in designing and implementing agentic AI workflows to enhance and automate financial decision-making processes. I have published in reputed international journals and undertaken consultancy projects for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. I was awarded the prestigious Reserve Bank of India Scholarship in 2022. I currently serve as a Member of the Expert Committee for finalizing Research and Development Statistics for the National Science and Technology Survey 2024–25, and as a Member of the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the National Science and Technology Management Information System (NSTMIS) Programme, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Contact Details:

Office Address: M-209, First Floor, New Academic Block, IIM Calcutta, Joka, Kolkata-700104

Website:

sites.google.com/view/ankit-k/home?authuser=1

Academics

Academic Background:

Ph.D. - Indian Institute of Management
B.Tech - UPES, Dehradun 

Visiting:

• University of Oxford ( Summer of '23)
  Methods & Tools for Macroeconomists 
• University of Surrey ( Summer of '21) [Virtual]
  The art & science of DSGE modeling 
• Paris School of Economics (Summer of '20)
  Macroeconomic Analysis & Policy 
• Indian Institute of Management, Banglore ( 2017- 2018 & 2019-2020) 

Courses Taught:

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta:

1.  Managerial Economics (PGP-VLMP) 
2. Macroeconomics (MBA-Core) 
3. Markets in Macroeconomics ( Macro-Finance) ( MBA-Elective) 
4. Advanced Macroeconomics (Ph.D.)

 

Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam :

1. Macroeconomics (MBA-Core) 
2. Econometrics (FDP) 

Awards:

Awarded scholarship under "Scholarship Scheme for Faculty Members from Academic Institutions – 2022" by the Reserve Bank of India.

Consulting Interests:

•  Policy Analysis & Impact Assessment 
• Developing Agentic Workflows 

Past Projects:

• Impact assessment of Fiscal Incentive Scheme, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
•  Study on Financial Market, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Experience

Work Experience:

Member, Expert Committee for finalizing Research and Development Statistics for the National Science and Technology Survey 2024–25
Member, Project Advisory Committee, National Science and Technology Management Information System (NSTMIS) programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. 
Assistant Professor, Economics Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (March 2022 to Present) 
Assistant Professor, Economics & Social Science Area, Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam ( March 2021-March 2022)

Research

Journal Publications:

• International spillovers of US monetary policy on inequality, ( With P. Dash and C. Subramanian), Economic Modelling, 2025. (ABDC-A) [Equal Contribution*]
• Economic conditions and related party transactions in India ( with U Sawan and  A. Rohit), Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics,(2025) (ABDC-A) 
• ‘Conventional vs. unconventional monetary policy under credit regulation’ ( with R.Rao and C. Subramanian), Macroeconomic Dynamics (2024), 1–27 ( ABDC-A)  [Equal Contribution*]
• ‘Sectoral capital flows and income inequality’ ( with P.Dash), Finance Research Letters, Volume 66, August 2024, 105625 (ABDC-A) 
• ‘Changing Transmission of Monetary Policy on Disaggregate Inflation in India,’ (with P. Dash), Economic Modelling, vol-92, pp 109-125, 2020. (ABDC-A)
• ‘Impairment of Monetary Autonomy: Case of Duo vs. Trilemma,’ (with A. K. Rohit and P. Dash), Economics Letters, vol-182, pp 71-77, 2019. (ABDC-A )

    *Author names in lexicographical (alphabetical) order.

Conferences:

• 'Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Spillovers of U.S. Monetary Shocks to Global Bond Yields'( with A. Rohit), 27th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance, Crete Greece, 2023.
• ‘The Effect of U.S. Monetary Policy Spillover on Income Inequality,’ (with P. Dash), 94th Annual Conference Western Economic Association, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2019.
• 'The Changing Effect of Global Commodity Prices: Evidence from a Time-Varying FAVAR Model (with P. Dash), 94th Annual Conference Western Economic Association, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2019.
• 'Changing Transmission of Monetary Policy on Disaggregate Inflation in India,’ (with P. Dash), 95th Annual Conference Western Economic Association, (Virtual), 2020.

Research Interests:

My research interests lie in macroeconomics, macro-finance and quantitative modelling. I use AI methods alongside Bayesian time-series econometrics to address pressing issues of macro-finance. I also develop structural DSGE models with financial frictions and banking sectors, as well as task-based models of production and labour-market adjustment. My recent work examines geopolitical risk and global supply-chain reconfigurations. 

 

Articles/Cases:

• ‘Policy in a Pandemic’ (with C. Subramanian) IIMB Working Paper Series 612.
  
  
• Health inflation rising, not captured in official print (with D. T. Rao) Informist , Dec 2021.