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VITAE
Name: SOUMYENDRANATH SIKDAR
Date of Birth: 8th March, 1956
Nationality: Indian
Present Position: Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Date of Joining: 2 April 2009
Office
Indian Institute of Management
D.H. Road
Joka, Calcutta 700 104
Phone : 2467 8300-04
Home
A 1/2 Karunamoyee Housing
Salt Lake, Calcutta 700 091
Phone: 2358 4163, 99039 70667
E-mail: soumyen1956 @gmail.com,
Academic Record
B. A (Economics) Presidency College, Calcutta, 1974
M. A (Economics) University of Calcutta, 1976
Ph.D (Economics) University of Minnesota, U.S.A, 1984
Teaching Experience
July`77- Aug `79 Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta
Sept`79-Dec`83 Research Associate, Teaching Associate, University of Minnesota, U.S.A
Dec `83 - Dec`85 Associate Professor, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamsedpur, India
Jan `86 - Dec`90 Associate Professor, Centre for Economic Studies, Presidency College, Calcutta
Jan `91- Mar`95 Professor, Burdwan University, India
Aug-Sept,1993 Visiting Fellow, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India
Apr `95 – March 2009 Professor, University of Calcutta
Sept `98-Feb`99, Aug – Nov, 2008 Visiting Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Japan.
April 2009 - Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Nov 1-25, 2009 Visiting Professor, Shenzhen University, China
( Period of 14 weeks had to be cut short on medical grounds)
Research Work and 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)
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.
Principles of Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2nd edition 2011
Sustainability of India’s Service-led Unbalanced Growth, paper presented in International Development Conference in Auckland, Dec 2012.
The Telecom Industry in the Era of Globalization with Special reference to India, in S. Banerjee and A. Chakrabarty (ed), Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective, Springer India, 2013.
Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Management, Oxford India Short Introductions, OUP India, 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, chapter in A Goyal (ed) Handbook of the Dynamic Indian Economy, OUP India, 2014.
( With A. Ghosh Dastidar) Occupation Choices of High School and College Students with Special Reference to Teaching and Research, Policy Futures in Education, vol 13, 3, 2015.
July-August 2016 Taught course on The Global Financial Crisis in the summer school of Aarhus University, Denmark.
Other Professional Activity
Teaching graduate and post graduate level courses at Presidency University, Calcutta University.
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