Sugata Marjit

Director (2007- )

and

Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics

Ph.D. (University of Rochester, USA)

Research Interests:   

International Economics, Economic Development, Economics of Corruption and Governance, Banking and Finance, Rational Choice Models of Political Economy, West Bengal Economy and Indian Economy

Courses Taught:
 

Development Economics
 

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:

• International Trade, Wage Inequality and The Developing Economy – A General Equilibrium Approach (with Rajat Acharyya) Research Monograph published by the Springer-Physica Verlag, 2003
   

• Foreign Investment, Technology Transfer and Joint Ventures in Developing Countries (Collective Volume edited jointly with N. Singh), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003
   

• India's exports: An analytical study (with Ajitava Raychaudhuri), Oxford University Press, Delhi, Oxford and New York: 1997.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Poverty, Taxation and Governance ( 2006, with V. Mukherjee and M. Kolmar) – Journal of International Trade and Economic Development ( Forthcoming)
   

• Informality, Corruption and Trade Reform (2006, with S. Ghosh and A.K. Biswas) –European Journal of Political Economy ( Forthcoming)
   

• Trade Reform and Informal Wage (2006, with S.Kar and H. Beladi) – Review of Development Economics ( Forthcoming)
   

• Globalization, Economic Reform and Informal Labor (2006, with D.S. Maiti) - in B. Guhakhasnobis and S.M. Ravi Kanbur (eds) – Informal Labor Markets and Development – MacMillan-Palgrave ( Forthcoming)
   

• Foreign Share Holding and Trade Policy (with A. Mukherjee and S. Sengupta) (2006) in M. Chatterjee and P. Gangopadhyay, eds. Globalisation and Economic Reforms, Ashgate Pub., U.K.
   

• Emigration and Wage Inequality (2005, with S. Kar) –Economics Letters, 87, 3, 141-145
   

• Misinvoicing and Trade Policy Outcomes (2005, with A.K. Biswas) – Journal of Policy Reform, 8, 3, 189-205.
   

• ‘Collateral Monitoring and Banking Regulation’, (with Indrajit Mallick) Economic and Political Weekly, 39:12:2004:1259-62.
   

• Evaluating the Performance of the Indian Banking System: An Analytical Appraisal of a Tolerable Limit of Non-Performing Assets’, in Ram Mohan, T.T.R. Rege Nitsure and M. Joseph (eds.), Regulation of Financial Intermediaries in Emerging Markets, London, Sage, 2004.
   

• ‘Asymmetric Capacity Costs and Joint Venture Buy-outs’ (with P. Roy Chowdhury), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 54:3, 2004, 425-438.
   

• ‘Future Technology, Incomplete Information and International Joint Venture’ (with A. Mukherjee and R. Kabiraj), Research in Economics, 58:1, 2004, 219-234.
   

• ‘Trade Wage Inequality in Developing Countries’ (with H. Beladi and A. Chakraborti), Economic Inquiry, 42:2, 2004, 295-303.
   

• ‘Capital Mobility and Informal Wage in a Small Economy: Two Examples’ (with S. Kar and P. Sarkar), South Asia Economic Journal, 5:2, 2004, 261-266.
   

• ‘Foreign Direct Investment, Credible Policy: The Role of Risk Sharing’ (with U.Broll and A.Mukherjee), International Trade Journal, 17:2:2003:165-176.
   

• ‘Monitoring Success: On a Fundamental Principle of Financial Regulation’, Economic and Political Weekly, 38:19:2003:1871-73.
   

• ‘Economic Development, Trade and Wage’ (with R.W.Jones), German Economic Review, 4:1:2003:1-17.
   

• ‘Economic Reform and Informal Wage – A General Equilibrium Analysis’, Journal of Development Economics, 72:1:2003:371-378.
   

• ‘Possibility or Impossibility of Paradoxes in the Small Economy Harris-Todaro Model – A Unifying Analysis’ (with Hamid Beladi), Journal of Development Economics, 72:1:2003:379-385.
   

• ‘Complementarity between Trade and Factor Movement: Revisiting Mundell-Markusen Propositions’, (with H. Beladi), Keio Economic Studies, 39:1:2002:57-62.
   

• ‘The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem in a Wage Differential Framework’, (with H. Beladi), Japanese Economic Review, 53:2:2002:177-81.
   

• ‘Protecting Consumers through Protection: The Role of Tariff-Induced Technology Transfer’ (with T. Kabiraj), European Economic Review, 47:1:2003:113-124.
   

• `South-South Co-operation and Export’, (jointly with H. Beladi), Theory and Design, 91:2:2001: 363-366.
   

• `Political Lobbying : Case of Industrial Licenses’, (jointly with R. Biswas), Economic and Political Weekly, 37:8:2002: 716-725.
   

• `Cooperation in R & D : The Case of Patent Infringement Agreements’, (jointly with A. Mukherjee and H.L. Shi), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45:4:2001: 383-401.
   

• `Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information : The Role of Equity Participation’, (jointly with A. Mukherjee), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 157:2:2001: 282-300.
   

• `The Role of International Fragmentation in the Development Process’, (jointly with R.W. Jones), American Economic Review, 91:2:2001: 363-366.
   

• `Informal Sector in General Equilibrium : Welfare Effects of Trade Policy Reforms’, (jointly with S. Kar), International Review of Economics and Finance, 10:3:2001: 289-300.
   

• `Globalization and Inequality – An Analytical Perspective’, (with R. Acharya), Economic and Political Weekly, 35:39: September 23-29, 2000: 3503-3510.
   

• `Gradual Trade Reform and The Current Account – The Role of Intermediate Goods’, (with S. Kar), Keio Economic Studies, 37:1:2000: 63-69.
   

• `A General Equilibrium Analysis of Foreign Investment and Intersectoral Linkage’ (with H. Beladi), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development’, 9:2:2000: 213-218.
   

• `Incomplete Information as a Deterrent to Crime’ (with M. Rajeev and D. Mukherjee), European Journal of Political Economy, 16:4:2000: 763-773.
   

• `Harassment, Corruption and Tax Policy’ (with A. Mukherjee and V. Mukherjee), European Journal of Political Economy, 16:1:2000: 75-94 (Special issue).
   

• `Decentralised Financing, Governance and Public – Private Cooperation’, Economic and Political Weekly, May, 1999.
   

• `Resolving the Credibility Problem of an Honest Government ‘ (jointly with U. Broll, Y.K. Ng and Bhaswar Moitra), Review of International Economics, Vol.7, 625-631, 1999.
   

• `Technology Adoption and LDC Firms’ (jointly with H. Beladi), Research in Economics, 53, 421-429, 1999.
   

• `Bilateral Agreements in a Multi Firm Industry : Technology Transfer and Horizontal Merger’ (jointly with T. Kabiraj and A. Mukherjee), Pacific Economic Review, 5, 77-78, 2000.
   

• `Three Faces of Factor Intensities’ (jointly with H. Beladi and R.W. Jones), Journal of International Economics, 48, 413-420, 1999.
   

• Complementarity between Import Competition and Import Promotion’ (jointly with H. Beladi), Journal of Economic Theory, 86, 280-285, 1999.
   

• “Foreign capital, protectionism and welfare : does unemployment matter?” (1999 with H. Beladi and R. Frasca) Keio Economic Studies.
   

• “To liberalize or not to liberalize an LDC market with insufficient incumbent” (1998, with R. Acharyya) – International Review of Economics and Finance, 7(3), pp.277-296.
   

• `Financial volatility and convertibility : Some methodological issues’, (February, 1998) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXIII, No.8.
   

• ‘Technology collaboration and foreign equity participation’ (1998, with A. Mukherjee), Review of International Economics, Vol.6, 142-150.
   

• `On controlling crime with corrupt officials’ (1998, with H.L. Shi), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol.34, 163-172.
   

• `Product vs. process patents’ (1998, with H. Beladi), Journal of Policy Modelling, Vol.20, 193-200.
   

• `Optimum size of a special economic zone’ (1997, with H. Beladi), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.
   

• `India’s exports - An analytical study’, Research Monograph, (1997, with A. Ray Chaudhuri), Delhi, Oxford University Press.
   

• `Simple theory of harassment and corruption’ (1997, with A. Mukherjee), Journal of Financial Management and Analysis, Vol.10, 81-84.
   

• ‘Technology for sale’ (1997, with R.W. Jones and H. Beladi) – Pacific Economic Review, Vol.2, 187-196.
   

• `Protection and gainful effects of foreign capital’ (1996, with H. Beladi), Economics Letters, December.

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES:

• Quota as a Competitive Device: Sugata Marjit (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India), Tarun Kabiraj (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) and Arijit Mukherjee (University of Nottingham and The Leverhulme Centre for Research in Globalisation and Economic Policy, UK)
   

• Poverty, Taxation and Governance: Sugata Marjit (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India), Vivekananda Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India) and Martin Kolmar (University of Mainz, Germany)
   

• Corruption, Comparative Advantage and Missing Trade: Sugata Marjit (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India)
   

• Outsourcing and R&D: Sugata Marjit (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India) and Arijit Mukherjee (University of Nottingham, UK and The Leverhulme Centre for Research in Globalisation and Economic Policy, UK)    
                                                                                                              

• Trade Theory and the Role of Time Zones: Sugata Marjit (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India)