Pranab Kumar Das

Fellow in Economics

Ph.D. (Jadavpur University, India)

Research Interests:   

Macroeconomics and Finance, Stock Market, Banking and Financial Intermediation, Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics, Evolution of Financial Systems Architecture in Developing and Emerging Market Economies

Courses Taught:
 

Econometric Methods and Applications, Macroeconomics and Finance

 DETAILED CV

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS/CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES:

• Financial Sector Reforms for Stimulating Investment and Economic Growth – The Indian Experience (jointly with Sugata Marjit) in Asian Development Bank ed. Macroeconomic Management and Government Finances, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, (forthcoming).

• Finance and Growth – An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy (jointly with Basudeb Guha-Khasnabis), in Basudeb Guha-Khasnabis and George Mavrotas, Eds. Finance for Growth and Poverty Reduction, Palgrave: NY (2008).

• ‘Does Firm Size Matter in an Imperfect Capital Market: A Study for the Indian Firms’, (jointly with Bhaswar Moitra), in Bishwajit Chatterjee et al (Eds.) Trade, Finance and Development: Essays in Contemporary Economics, Deep and Deep, New Delhi, 2004

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Fundamentals, financial factors and firm investment in India: A Panel VAR approach, The Indian Economic Journal, 55, 4, Jan. – March (2008). 

• A Portfolio Theory of Excessive Foreign Borrowing and Capital Control in a Small Open Economy (jointly with Sugata Marjit and Samaresh Bardhan), Research in International Business and Finance,21,175-187 (2007).
  

• Real Sector, Banks and Policy Issues: An Exploration in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Model, Keio Economic Studies, 43, 2, 35-60 (2006).

• ‘Credit Rationing and Firms’ Investment and Production Decisions’, International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 13 (2004); pp. 87 – 114
   

• ‘Are Listed Indian Firms Finance Constrained? Evidence for 1991-92 to 1997-98’ Economic and Political Weekly, 37, 8, (Feb. 23, 2002) (jointly with Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Bhaswar Moitra)
   

• ‘Small Scale Industry in West Bengal, 1971-97’ (jointly with Robin Mukherji and Uttam Bhattacharya), Economic and Political Weekly, 34, 48 (Nov.), 1999.
   

• ‘Bank Credit, Output and Bank Deposits in West Bengal and Selected States in India’, Economic and Political Weekly, 33, 47 and 48 (Nov.), 1998
   

• Stochastic Rationing of Credit and Economic Activities in a Model of Monopolistic Competition, Occasional Paper No. 154, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 1996.
   

• Fundamentals and Share Prices in the Drugs and Medicines Industry (jointly with Manjusri Bandyopadhyay, Occasional Paper No. 152, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 1995.
   

• A Study in Indian Stock Price Behaviour: January 1991 - May 1993 (jointly with Manjusri Bandyopadhyay, Occasional Paper No. 140, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 1993.

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES:

• Financial development and growth in China and India - Some speculations, 2007.
   

• Private investment in groundwater irrigation: Do the public institutions matter (jointly with Bhaswar Moitra), 2005, an earlier version presented at Conference on Institutions and Development, Sept. 22-23, 2006, Reading University, UK.