Department of Economics

(Last updated: December 2005)

Contact || Year of Establishment || Courses Offered
Faculty Members || Research Work || Academic Journal (ARTHANITI)

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

Faculty Members

Research Work

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 will adopt 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
56A, B.T. Road, Kolkata 700 050, India.
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.