Dept. of Arts - Economics

Department of Economics

Contact

56A, B.T. Road , Kolkata – 700050, India
Phone: 091-033-2557-5082 / 2528-4066
Fax: 091-033-2528-4066
E-mail: economics@vsnl.net
http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/arts_economics.htm

(Last updated: 17 June 2009)

Year of Establishment

1914

Courses Offered

Course	Minimum Qualification	Number of Seats
M.A. / M.Sc	B.A./B.Sc. (Hons. in Economics) In order of merit	220
M.Phil.	55% Marks in M.A. / M.Sc.	10
Ph.D.	M.A. / M.Sc. Degree	-

Syllabi of M.Sc. in Economics
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Faculty Members

Name	Specialisation	E-mail
Professors
Ajit Choudhury	Political Economy
Kalyan Sanyal	International Economics, Development Economics	kseco@caluniv.ac.in kalyan_cu@yahoo.co.in
Soumen Sikdar	Micro Economics, Mathematical Economics	sseco@caluniv.ac.in spsikdar@cal3.vsnl.net.in
Sarmila Banerjee	Quantitative Development Economics, Quantitative Environmental Economics	sbeco@caluniv.ac.in sarmila_b@hotmail.com
Nita Mitra	Economics of Planning, Development Management, Labour Economics, Indian Economics	nmeco@caluniv.ac.in aninditamitra@vsnl.net
Ishita Mukhopadhyay	Mathematical Economics, Development Economics, Gender Studies	imeco@caluniv.ac.in imukhopadhyay@hotmail.com
Sankar Kumar Bhaumik	Agricultural Economics, Econometrics	sbmeco@caluniv.ac.in bhaumiksk@yahoo.co.in
Sarbajit Chaudhuri	Agricultural Economics/ Development Economics, International Economics, Labor Economics, Micro Economics	sceco@caluniv.ac.in sarbajitch@yahoo.com http://papers.ssrn.com/author=294419
Anjan Kr. Chakraborty	Political Economy	aceco@caluniv.ac.in chakanjan@hotmail.com
Pabitra Giri	Urban Economics, Econometrics	pgeco@caluniv.ac.in pabitragiri@hotmail.com
Readers
Mahalaya Chatterjee	Urban Economics, Managerial Economics	mceco@caluniv.ac.in mahalayac@hotmail.com
Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay	Economics of Education/Human Rights, Human Well-being, Development Economics, Labour Economics	rnmeco@caluniv.ac.in rabindram@hotmail.com
Arijita Dutta	Econometrics, Industrial Economics, Economics of Health	adeco@caluniv.ac.in arijita_d@hotmail.com
Sukanta Bhattacharya	Economic Theory, Development Economics	sbheco@caluniv.ac.in sukanta_70@yahoo.com
Kumarjit Mandal	Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics	kmeco@caluniv.ac.in kumarjitm@hotmail.com
Sudakshina Gupta	Urban Economics	sudakshinagupta@yahoo.co.in
Lecturer
Biswajit Roy	Environmental Economics	biswajit_roy1002@yahoo.com

Research Work

The Department has two Centers for Advanced Research

Major thrust areas in which both theoretical and empirical Research activities are being actively pursued:

Urban Economics • Environmental Economics • Economics of the Informal Sector • Trade and Development
• Trade and Environment • Agricultural Economics • Gender Studies • Economics of Child Labor •
• Political Economy • Economics of Education • Development Management

Academic Journal

ARTHANITI (ECONOMICS) (New Series)

Aims and scope : The Dept. of Economics, University of Calcutta has resumed the publication of its journal Arthaniti (Economics) from 2002. For the time being, Arthaniti is published as an annual international journal. Papers across the entire field of economics, including econometrics, economic history, and political economy will be considered for publication. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts are equally welcomed. Manuscripts will be judged solely on the quality of their content. Arthaniti adopts a double-blind review process

EDITORIAL BOARD
Chairman: Soumyen Sikdar, E-mail: spsikdar@cal3.vsnl.net.in
Joint Editors: Sarbajit Chaudhuri, E-mail: sarbajitch@yahoo.com Sankar Kumar Bhaumik, E-mail: bhaumiksk@yahoo.co.in
Associate Editors: Ishita Mukhopadhyay, Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay
Book Review Editors: Nita Mitra, Anjan Chakraborty
Editorial Secretary: Kanai Lal Basak

Members:
Asis Kumar Banerjee, Arup Mallik, Ajit Chaudhuri, Kalyan Sanyal, Sarmila Banerjee, Pabitra Kumar Giri,
Manash Ranjan Gupta, Sugata Marjit, Dipankar Coondoo, Abhirup Sarkar

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Ronald W Jones, Timothy Besley, Sajal Lahiri, Partha Sen, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya,
Prabuddha Nath Roy, Amiya K Bagchi, Dilip Mookherjee, Pasquale M Sgro, Debraj Ray, Hiron Kumar Banerjee,
David E A Giles, Bharat R Hazari, Hamid Beladi, Graciela Chichilnisky, Ira Gang, Shigemi Yabuuchi, Ulaganathan Sankar

EDITORIAL/ BUSINESS OFFICE
Department of Economics
University of Calcutta
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E-mail: economics@vsnl.net

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ARTHANITI (New Series)

Volume I, Nos. (1-2), 2002

Contents

Trade Sanctions and Child Labour with Endogenous Borrowing Constraint Sajal Lahiri, and Khalid Mir
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Catastrophical Risk Graciela Chichilnisky
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On Optimality and Competitive Equilibria in the Presence of Fuzzy Preferences S.C. Panda and Prasanta K. Pattanaik
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Protection with Foreign-owned Capital in a Monopolistically Competitive Model Partha Sen
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Rent Seeking in Hierarchical Firms G.S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang
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Globalization, International Trade and Welfare Pasquale M. Sgro
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The Mutuality of Private and Public Credit: The Rise and Decline of Public Credit Amiya Kumar Bagchi
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Illegal Immigration, Informal Sector and Development Policies in a Dual Economy Shigemi Yabuuchi
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Non-traded Sector and Wage Inequality in a Developing Economy Rajat Acharyya and Sugata Marjit
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Foreign Investment, Economic Reforms and the Size of the Domestic Market Abhirup sarkar and Sukanta Bhattacharyay

ARTHANITI (New Series)

Volume II, Nos. (1-2), 2003

Contents
Deregulation, Ownership and Efficiency in Indian Banking Subal C. Kumbhakar and, Subrata Sarkar
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Court Delays and the Defendant Behaviour: An Economic Analysis Andrew Torre and Bharat R Hazari
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Frontier Production and Extreme Observations Manoranjan Pal, B. Ghosh and C. Neogi
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On Rationalization of Nash and Subgame-Perfect Behaviour from Observed Outcomes Indrajit Ray and, Susan Snyder
• Foreign Market Entry and Host-Country Welfare: A Theoretical Analysis Arijit Mukherjee
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Child Labour and Economic Development: A Theoretical Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta
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When Scrutiny Reduces Signaling Incentives Debabrata Datta and Jaideep Roy
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Book Review:Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India, Sangeeta Kamat, Oxford University Press, India 2002.

ARTHANITI (New Series)

Volume III, Nos. (1-2), 2004

Contents
Infrastucture and Development Interlinkage in West Bengal : A VAR Analysis Rajarshi Majumdar and Dipa Mukherjee
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Forms of Dualism: An Analysis of the Structure of India’s Unregistered Manufacturing Sector Based on the 56 th Round Results C.P. Chandrasekhar
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Does Economic Development Cause Intra-Industry Trade? Sarmila Banerjee and Ranajoy Bhattacharyya
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Manufacturing Sector Productivity in India across Phases of Liberalisation during 1981-97: A Study of Selected States Maniklal Adhikary
and Ritwik Mazumdar
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The Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) Scheme: Recoveries- A Study of Selected Districts in Andhra Pradesh D. Chennappa
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To Free Ride or Not to Free Ride? Role of Patterning and Feedback in the Public Good Game Ananish Chaudhuri, DeeDee Chen, Sara Graziano, Frances McIntire, Dawn Winkler
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A Comment on Avoidance of Odd-eight quotes on Nasdaq Diganta Mukherjee
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Book Review: Rotting From The Head, Salim Rashid (ed.), The University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2004.

ARTHANITI (New Series)

Volume IV, Nos. (1-2), 2005

Contents
PRSP as a development paradigm: A critique and the contours of an alternative C.P. Chandrasekhar
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On revenue and bidders’ payoffs in procurement auctions with variable quantity Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar
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Joint ventures and foreign subsidiaries Prabal Roy Chowdhury
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Doping in sport: An economic analysis Vijay Mohan, Mirabelle Ng and Bharat Hazari
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Book Reviews

ARTHANITI

(New Series) Volume V, Nos. (1-2), 2006

Contents
How workers get poor because capitalists get rich: A general equilibrium model of labor supply, community, and the class distribution of
income Indraneel Dasgupta and Ravi Kanbur
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On the incentives for cooperative and non-cooperative R&D in duopoly Tarun Kabiraj
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Informal Enterprises: Reflections on Existing Hypotheses Vinod Anand
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International trade and personal income distribution in developing countries: Some issues and concerns Ananya G. Dastidar
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Dirtier trade for India ? The story of globalization Sudeshna Chattopadhyay
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Monetary models of exchange rates and the random walk Gianluca Lagana and Pasquale M Sgro

ARTHANITI (New Series)

Volume VI, Nos. (1-2), 2007

Contents
The Employment Potential of Micro Enterprise Sector Vinod K. Anand
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Welfare Gains (or Losses) to the Producers and Consumers in the Absence of Rationing: A Case Study in Burdwan District of West Bengal
Rajat Jyoti Sarkar , Kalyanbrata Bhattacharyya & Maniklal Adhikary
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Some aspects of institutional credit – a study of rural West Bengal Susmita Chatterjee
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Quantitative Economics and its Constraining Assumptions: The Way Out Vinod K. Anand
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Non-Frontier Profit Function: An Application to Indian Agriculture Manabendu Chattopadhyay, Manoranjan Pal & Atanu Sengupta

ARTHANITI (New Series)

Volume VII, Nos. (1-2), 2008

Contents
Multiplicity of Equilibrium in Canonical and Non-Canonical Correlation Devices: An Example Indrajit Ray
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Parental Education influencing Schooling and Child Labour Decision: Urban India in the New Millennium Diganta Mukherjee & Saswati Das
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State Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions of India : 1980-2000 Tapas Ghoshal & Ranajoy Bhattacharyya
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Teeming Millions in India : Certain Vital Issues Vinod K. Anand
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Capability Based Approach And India’s Poverty Subrata Majumder