Department of Economics

(Last updated: 17 June 2009)

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

Year of Establishment

1914

Courses Offered

Syllabi of M.Sc. in Economics

Faculty Members

Research Work

The Department has two Centers for Advanced Research

1.       SAP- DRS (2007) on Economics of Globalization and Sustainable Development

2.       Centre for Urban Economic Studies (1977)

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
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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