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Surajit Das

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

345, SSS II

Off. Phone

011-26704499

surajit@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Economics): 2010, Jawaharlal Nehru University
MPhil. (Economics): 2002, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Master’s (Economics): 2000, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Public Economics, Macroeconomic Policy

Experience

Teaching at Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, JNU as assistant professor (since 16th April till date)
Taught at Ambedkar University, Delhi as professor assistant(since 1st August 2012 to 15th April 2013)
Worked at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy as economist (since November, 2007 to 31st July 2012).
Worked in Kerala State Planning Board as Consultant and member of the resource committee (from August, 2006 to May, 2007).
Worked as Consultant in Perspective Planning Division, Planning Commission of India (from 01/08/2005 to 11/8/2006).
Worked as Consultant in International Economics Division, Planning Commission of India (from 01/02/2005 to 31/07/2005).
Worked as Research Associate at Twelfth Finance Commission of India (from 20/05/2003 to 15/12/2004).
Worked in a project called "Proposed Export Policies" at Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India under Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) as Research Assistant.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. "Fiscal Consolidation with High Growth" (jointly with Prof. Sudipto Mundle and Prof. N R Bhanumurthy)” Economic Modelling, Elsevier, 28 (2011) 2657–2668, November, 2011.

2. "On Financing the Fiscal Deficit and Availability of Loanable Funds in India", Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) Vol. XLV No. 15, page 67-75, 10 April 2010.

3. "On Bringing Down the Fiscal Deficit", Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) Vol. 42, No. 23, Page 1638 to 1640, 5-11 May, 2007.

4. "Status of Agriculture in India: Trends and Prospects" (jointly with Archana Mathur and Subhalakshmi Sirkar) Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) in Review of Agriculture, Vol. 41, No. 52, Page 5327 to 5336, 30 December, 2006.

5. "Effect of Fiscal Deficit on Real Interest Rates", Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) in Special Issue on Money Banking & Finance, Vol. 39, No. 12, Page 1299 to 1310, March, 2004.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. "Oil Price Shock, Pass-through Policy and its Impact on India" (jointly with Prof. N R Bhanumurthy and Sukanya Bose) – NIPFP Working Paper no. 2012-99, March 2012.

2. "On Fiscal Deficit and Public Debt" - Accepted as a chapter in an edited volume by Prabhat Patnaik called "ICSSR Research Survey in Economics", published by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, Forthcoming.

3. "On Fiscal Deficit, Interest Rate and Crowding-out" - Accepted as a chapter in an edited volume by Sudipta Bhattacharya called "Two Decades of Market Reform in India: Some Dissenting Views", Published by Anthem Press, Forthcoming.