About Us
The Department of Economic Sciences has 20 permanent faculty members with research and teaching interests that cover a broad range of fields. Apart from having strength in traditional areas like microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics; the department has expertise in agricultural economics, Bayesian econometrics, behavioral economics, development economics, efficiency, and productivity analysis, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics, industrial economics, international trade, labor economics, law and economics, optimization theory, political economy, family economics, and public policy.
The department primarily offers three degrees in economics: 4 years B.S., 1 year M.S., and Ph.D. in Economics. Admission for the 52 seats (per year) in the B.S. program is through the advanced joint entrance examination (JEE). B.S. students who satisfy certain eligibility criteria can opt for a 1 year M.S. program in Economics. There is also a provision for the dual degree for undergraduate students of IITK. The entry to the Ph.D. program is through a written test and a viva exam conducted once at the beginning of each academic year. The department has also recently obtained approval for the launch of a 2-year M.Sc. in Economics program and three e-Masters programs, details of which will be updated soon.
- List of selected candidates for PhD at Economic Sciences-2023 New
- MSc Admission Test - FAQ's
- Public Policy Conference: Call for Papers New
- The written exam for shortlisted candidates for M.Sc. program will be held at IIT Kanpur on 15th June. List of candidates shortlisted for the written test
- Former Defence Secretary Dr. Ajay Kumar joins as Distinguished Visiting Professor.
- The first Public Policy conference was held on March 2, 2023.
- 2023 Research Scholars' Day was held on 8th and 9th February.
Title: The Long-Term Effect of British Colonialism on Women Empowerment in India
Speaker: Punarjit Roychowdhury
Affiliation Shiv Nadar Uni.
Date: April 17th, 5:30 pm; Venue: Virtual
Title: Cooking up empowerment: Does empowerment influence choice of
household cooking fuel?
Speaker: Zakir Husain
Affiliation Presidency Uni.
Date: April 13th, 12 noon; Venue: FB620
Title: Conflict with Third-Party Intervention and Revenge: A Game-Theoretic Exploration
Speaker: Soumyanetra Munshi
Affiliation ISICAL
Date: April 6th, 3pm; Venue: L-12
Title: Feedback Effects and Systematic Risk Exposures
Speaker: Snehal Banerjee
Affiliation Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
Date: February 24th, 9am; Venue: Virtual
Title: Duality Between Multi-Output Production Correspondences and Cost Functions
Speaker: Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz
Affiliation Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Date: February 6th, 4pm; Venue: TBD
Title: Monetary Incentives and Journal Publications: Evidence from a
Natural Experiment (Joint work with Debashish Bhattacherjee, IIM
Calcutta)
Speaker: Prof. Tanika Chakraborty, IIM Calcutta
Date: Monday November 14th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: Household preferences for home food consumption under food and cash
constraints, and market imperfections: an inverse-U relationship with income
Speaker: Dr. Lucie Maruejols, University of Gottingen
Date: Monday October 31st, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and virtual
Title: Granular Origin of Comovement in Fluctuations
Speaker: Prof. Anindya S. Chakrabarty, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
Date: Monday October 17th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: Demand Side Story: Structural Change and the Decline in Female Labour Force Participation in India
Speaker: Prof. Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University.
Date: Thursday October 13th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: Does facetime with the boss matter? Soft information communication and organizational performance
Speaker: Dr. Kaushalendra Kishore, CAFRAL
Date: Monday October 10th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWN "TRUE" MODEL: Data-Based
Nonparametric Econometrics and Empirical Economics
Speaker: Prof. Aman Ullah, Univ. of California - Riverside
Date: Monday September 26th, 2022; From 7:30 pm
Venue: Virtual
Title: Stable dissolution of a partnership
Speaker: Prof. Debasis Misra, ISI Delhi
Date: Friday September 16th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: FB-620
Title: Convergence Across Castes
Speaker: Prof. Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia.
Date: Wednesday September 14th, 2022; From 5:30 pm
Venue: FB-620
Title: Does the choice of words in the Fed’s Board of Governors’ speeches matter?
Speaker: Prof. Abhinav Anand, IIM Bangalore
Date: Monday September 12th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: Culture and Market : A Macroeconomic Tale of Two Institutions
Speaker: Prof. Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics
Date: Monday September 5th, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: Growth Miracles and Consumer Bankruptcy Policy
Speaker: Prof. Urvi Neelakantan
Date: Monday August 29th, 2022; From 6 pm
Venue: Virtual
Title: Automation, Displacement and Democracy
Speaker: Prof. Jaideep Roy, University of Bath
Date: August 08, Monday, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: L-13 and Virtual
Title: Threshold Regression Model with Panel Data - Some Issues
Speaker: Prof. Panchanan Das, University of Calcutta
Date: August 02, Tuesday, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: Room 620, Faculty Building
Title: Rank-preserving Multidimensional Mechanisms
Speaker: Prof. Sushil Bikhchandani, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Date: August 01, Monday, 2022; From 10 am
Virtual Meeting
Title: Characterization results in sequencing with welfare lower bounds: an incentive and an egalitarian approach
Speaker: Dr. Sreoshi Banerjee
Date: July 29, Friday, 2022; From 3:30 pm
Venue: Room 620, Faculty Building
Title: Sectoral Productivity Impacts of Trade Liberalization, Huuman capital formation and industrial policy with macroeconomic dynamics: An expost partial and ex ante general equilibrium analysis
Speaker: Prof. S.K. Mathur, session at the ISID (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Delhi) Capacity Building Programme
Date: February 25th, 2022
Title: Impact of Public Procurement on Private Sector: Evidence from Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Speaker: Prof. Samarth Gupta, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)
Date: February 8th, 2022; from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Venue: Virtual meeting
Title: Why Does Consumption Fluctuate in Old Age and How Should the Government Insure It?
Speaker: Prof. Jeanne Commault , Sciences Po
Date: October 6th, 2021; Venue: Virtual meeting
Title: Till Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families
Speaker: Prof. Rossella Calvi, Rice University
Date: September 21st, 2021; Venue: Virtual Meeting
Title: Can Pesion Reforms Solve the “Missing Women” Problem?
Speaker: Prof. Avraham Ebenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Date: September 6th, 2021; Venue: Virtual Meeting
Title: Why do people stay poor?
Speaker: Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Date: February 19th, 2021; Venue: Virtual Meeting
- Archana Srivastava, Somesh K Mathur and Prabir De (2023),” Ex-Ante Evaluation of Indias Trade Alliance with Indo Pacific: A General Equilibrium Analysis”,volume 58, issue 2, Foreign Trade Review, Sage Publication
- T Argaw, J Fledderjohann, E Aurino, S Vellakkal (2023). Children’s Educational Outcomes and Persistence and Severity of Household Food Insecurity in India: Longitudinal Evidence from Young Lives. The Journal of Nutrition (Elsevier).Vol 153 (4), April 2023, Pages 1101-1110.
- Maheshwari, P. and Rahman, M. A.(2023), "bqror: An R Package for Bayesian Quantile Regression in Ordinal Models", The R Journal, 1-17 (forthcoming)
- Archana Srivastava, Somesh K Mathur and Prabir De (2023),"An Ex Ante Evaluation of Indo-Pacific Economic Framework A General Equilibrium Analysis", Economic & Political Weekly JANUARY 28, 2023 vol LVIII no 4
- Vellakkal S,Khan Z, Alavani H, J Fledderjohann, Stuckler D: Effects of public policies in preventing cardiovascular diseases, Public Health (Elsevier). Volume 207, June 2022, Pages 73-81.
- Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation. Atrayee Choudury and Sohini Sahu, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 75, December 2022, 102193.
- Cross-country variations in economic complexity: The role of individualism. Garima Maurya and Sohini Sahu, Economic Modelling, Volume 115, October 2022, 105961.
- Fiscal decentralization, regional disparity, and the role of corruption. Nupur Nirola, Sohini Sahu and Atrayee Choudhury, The Annals of Regional Science, Volume 68, 2022
- Archana Srivastava and Somesh K Mathur(2022), "India's Possible Alignment with the RCEP: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Impacts on Carbon Emissions", forthcoming as book chapter in the book entitled" Thirty Years of ASEAN", AIC, RIS, Ministry of External Affairs, Delhi and Cambodia
- Archana Srivastava, Rachna Mathur and Somesh K Mathur (2022),"Evaluation of ASEAN–India Free Trade Regime: A General Equilibrium Approach", Journal of Asian Economic Integration, Volume 4, Number 2, Sage Publication, Thailand, New Delhi
- Chopra, A., M., Lahiri. A, (2022), "Pandemics through the lens of occupations", Canadian Journal of Economics
- Vikram A.,"A top-only mechanism with reserve price for single-good allocation problem." Economics Letters (2022): 110646.
- Dar, S. S., & Sahu, S. (2022). The effect of language on financial inclusion. Economic Modelling, 105693.
- Dutta, J., & Martínez-Legaz, J. E. (2021). Error bounds for inequality systems defining convex sets. Mathematical Programming, 189(1), 299-314.
- A Kanya, T Marthias, S Vellakkal, N Carvalho, R Atun, A Morgan, Y Zhao, E Hulse, B McPake, J Lee (2021). Socioeconomic inequalities ineffective service coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: a comparative analysis of 39 low-income and middle-income countries, EClinicalMedicine-LANCET, Volume 40
- Singh, A., & Vellakkal, S.(2021). "Impact of public health programs on maternal and child health services and health outcomes in India: A systematic review". Social Science & Medicine, 113795.
- Saini, S., Ahmad, W.,& Bekiros, S. (2021). "Understanding the credit cycle and business cycle dynamics in India". International Review of Economics & Finance, 76, 988-1006.
- Khan, M. A., & Ahmad, W.(2021). "Fresh Evidence on the Relationship between Market Power and Default Risk of Indian Banks". Finance Research Letters (Forthcoming).
- Dempe, S., Dinh, N., Dutta, J., & Pandit, T. (2021). "Simple bilevel programming and extensions". Mathematical Programming,188(1), 227-253.
Programs Offered
BS/MS Program
BS/MS program in Economics
M.Sc. Program
M.Sc. program in Economics
Ph.D. Program
Ph.D. in Economics
e-Masters
e-Masters programs for freshers and professionals.