2023

• Title: Revisiting Anselin et al. (1996): the Last Word on Spatial Testing; Speaker: Prof. Anil K Bera, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  • Date & Time: 2nd August 2023, Wednesday, 4pm to 5pm
  • Venue: ERU seminar room, 6th Floor, Library Building

2016-17

2015 - 16

• Conference on “Urbanization Industrialization and Development: The Case of West Bengal”, at Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, March 17, 2016.

Workshops @ ERU

2015 -16

• Workshops on “Experimental Economics”, at Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, March 15, 2016.
• Workshops on “Urbanization Industrialization and Development: The Case of West Bengal”, at Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, March 17, 2016.
• Workshops on “Doctoral Students'” organised by the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, March 21, 2016 to March 23, 2016.
• Training Programmes on 'Advanced Econometric Methods and Their Applications' organized by the Economic Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in collaboration with at the Department of Economics, Mizoram University, Aizawal, Mizoram, February 29, 2016 to March   05, 2016.

2014 - 15

• Workshops on “Doctoral Students'” organised by the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, March 18, 2015 to March 20, 2015.
• Workshops on “Game Theory and Mechanism Design”, at Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, March 24, 2015.

2013 - 14

2010 - 11

• Workshop on “Economics-Physics Interface”, Economic Research Unit and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, November 19, 2010
• Workshop on “Preserving Some Important Project Reports and The Historical Papers on the ISI in the ISI Archive and ISI Library” Economic Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, March 03, 2011.

2009 - 10

• “International Workshop on Econophysics of Games and Social Choices”: Economic Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata  and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata at, Indian Statistical Institute March 9 – 13, 2009. 

2018 - 19

• Sudipto Sarkar, Department of Economics, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada, (19.04.2018): Agency Cost of Debt Overhang with Optimal Investment Timing and Size.
• Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA, (28.06.2018): Terms of Trade and Counterterrorism Externalities.
• Sayahnika Basu, Department of Economics, Arozpma State University, (05.07.2018): Environmental Justice for Seniors? Evidence from the Superfund Program
• Sewak, Ram Dubey, Department of Economics, Montclair State University, USA, (19.07.2018): Egalitarian Representation under Uniform Improvement Pareto: A Characterization of Infinite Utility Domains.
• Debopam Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, (02.08.2018): Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models under Social Interactions.
• Jeffrey, Racine, Department of Economics, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada, (10.08.2018): Bootstrap Model Averaging Unit Root Inference.
• Ashim Gupta, Department of Economics, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (16.08.2018): Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation in India: Distress Driven Labor Supply?
• Niloy Bose, Virginia Tech, USA, (11.09.2018): The Housing Wealth Effect: Identification after a Tragedy.
• Saraswata Chaudhuri, Department of Economics, McGill University, Canada (13.12.2018): Efficient Estimation in sub and full Populations with Monotonically Missing at Random Data.
• Aurobindo Ghosh, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, (27.12.2018): Density Forecast Evaluation for Dependent Financial Data: Theory and Applications.
• Anil K. Bera, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA, (11.01.2019): An informal talk on Spatial Econometrics.
• Ananish Chaudhuri, Department of Economics, University of Auckland, New Zealand (24.01.2019):Who Wants to be a Politician? Running for Office in Rural West Bengal.
• Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, (14.02.2019): Are Optimal Policies under Cost Channel Implementable?

2017 - 18

• Souvik Dutta, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (18.05.2017): Social Reform as Path to Political Leadership: A Dynamic Model.
• Conan Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, (01.06.2017): On Evaluating Authors' Performance by Publications: An Axiomatic Study.
• Chirantan Chatterjee,  Economics & Public Policy, Indian School of Business, Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, (15.06.2017): IPR and Organization of Knowledge: New Evidence from India.
• Anil K. Bera, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA, (22.06.2017): Testing/Tasting Spatial Models: A Specification Search Approach.
• Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, (07.07.2017): On Interim Rationality, Belief Formation, and Learning in Decision Problems with Bounded Memory.
• Atin Basuchoudhary, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450 (27.07.2017): Using Machine Learning to Predict Conflict.
• Abhishek Ranjan, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, (03.08.2017): Vickrey Meets Alonso: Commute Scheduling and Congestion in a Monocentric City.
• Ajay Shah, National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, (08.08.2017): Data-driven Techniques in Measuring the Exchange Rate Regime.
• Shrabani Saha, Lincoln International Business School,University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN 6 7TS, United Kingdom,  (10.08.2017): The Impact of National Institutional Quality on International Tourism Inflows: Cross-Country Evidence
• Somnath Das, Department of Economics, Purdue University, (24.08.2017): Effect of Merger on Market Price and Product Quality: American and US Airways.
• Mario Ferrero, Department of Economic, University of Eastern Piedmont, Via del Duomo, 6, 13100 Vercelli VC, Italy, (12.10.2017): Incentives Beyond the Grave.
• Ratul Lahkar, Department of Economics, Indian institute of Management, Udaipur, (16.10.2017): An Evolutionary Analysis of Growth and Fluctuations with Negative Externalities.
• Bhaskar Dutta, Department of Economics, University of Warwick and Ashoka University, (01.11.2017): Coalition Formation and History Dependence.
•  Mario Ferrero, Department of Economic, University of Eastern Piedmont, Via del Duomo, 6, 13100 Vercelli VC, Italy, (02.11.2017):The Economics of Religion: An Overview of Research.
• Mario Ferrero, Department of Economic, University of Eastern Piedmont, Via del Duomo, 6, 13100 Vercelli VC, Italy, (09.11.2017):Divine Competition in Greco-Roman Polytheism.
• Markus Brueckner, Australian National University, LF Crisp Building, 0200 Acton, ACT, Australia, (07.12.2017): Inequality and Economic Growth: the Role of Initial Income
• Sajal Lahiri, Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University, MC 4515; 1000 Faner Drive Carbondale, IL. 62901-4515, U.S.A., (21.12.2017): Why Direct Counter-Terror Measures Only May Fail.
• Primal Bag, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, (28.12.2017): Project Implementation and Unrewarded Talent

2016 - 17

• Satadru Das, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA, (25.07.2016): Analyzing the Impact of the World’s Largest Public Works Project on Family Planning.
• Sourav, Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, 305, Horton Building, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, (04.08.2016): A Possibility Theorem on Information Aggregation in Elections.
• Anirban Kar, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi–110007 (22.11.2016): Local Institutional Structure and Clientelistic Access to Employment: The Case of MGNREGS in Three States of India
• Santanu Chatterjee, Department of Economics, University of Georgia. 310 Herty Drive, Athens, GA 30602 USA, (14.12.2016): The Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances.
• Sourav Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, (14.12.2016): Strategic Communication and Group Formation.
• Ananish Chaudhuri, Department of Economic, University of Auckland, Canada, (15.12.2016): Piece-rates and Tournaments: Implications for Learning in a Cognitively Challenging Task.
• Subhasish Modak Chowdhury, School of Economics, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, and Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom, (21.12.2016): Post-Cartel Tacit Collusion: Determinants, Consequences and Prevention.
• Radhika Lunawat, University of California-Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business, Irvine, CA 92697-3125, (29.12.2016): Soft Information Production and Investment in Specific Assets.
• Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, (04.01.2017): Triggering Extremism: Political Consequences of Profit Seeking Media.
• Scott, Charles,  Bradford, Department of Economic, Brigham Young University, Provo, LJT 801-422-8358, USA, (09.01.2017): A General Equilibrium Model of Migration and Poverty.
• Sanchari Roy, Department of Economics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom (12.01.2017): Sex Workers, Self-Image and Stigma: Evidence from Kolkata Brothels.
• Dr. Girijasankar Mallik, School of Business, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia, (27.01.2017): Demonetisation: Causes and Consequences.

2015 - 16

• Banerjee, Anurag, Department of Economics, University of Durham, United Kingdom, (July 14, 2015): What has the Afghanistan War to do with Soccer? The Endgame.
• Bhattacharyya, Aditi, Department of Economics and International Business, Sam Houston State University, USA, (July 16, 2015): A Generalized Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Rice Farming: A Case Study from Assam, India.
• Bhattacharjee, Arnab, Professor of Economics and Director, Spatial Economics & Econometrics Centre (SEEC), Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (January 7,20 & 21, 2016): Spatial Econometrics: Introduction and Recent Developments.
• Basu, Deepankar, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,  MA 01003, USA, (January 28, 2016): Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India.
• Bhaskar,Umang, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, (28.03.2016): Optimal Signaling in Bayesian Games.
• Chatterjee, Kalyan, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, (July 09, 2015): Bilateral Trading with Incomplete Information and Outside Options. 
• Chatterjee, Somdeep, Department of Economics, University of Houston, (May 21, 2015): Do People Vote to Make a Statement? Theory and Evidence of Expressive Voting from India.
• Dixit, Avinash, Department of Economics, University Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton University, USA, (December 15, 2015): Dynamics of Rent-Sharing to Avoid Violence. 
• Ghosh, Arghya, School of Economics, UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, (July 23, 2015): Voting on Infrastructure Investment: The Role of Product Market Competition.
• Kejriwal, Mohitosh Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, USA, (January 22, 2016): Asymptotics for Estimators Dating the Origination and Termination of Explosive Behavior in a Time Series.
• Konar, Abishek, Department of Economics, Observer Research Foundation, (February 11, 2016): Peer Effects and Farmer Heterogeneity in Tillage Choice.
• Lahiri, Kajal, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Albany, SUNY, (January 19, 2016): ROC Curve, Forecast Combination and Prediction of Rare Events.
• Mohapatra, Debi Prasad, Department of Economics, Cornell University/University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA 01003, USA, (29.02.2016): Price Control and Access to Drugs: The Case of India’s Malarial Market.
• Mukherjee, Sacchidananda, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP),New Delhi, (June 01, 2015): Estimation of Unaccounted Income using Transport as a Universal Input: A Methodological Note.
• Nandeibam, Shasikant, Department of Economics, University of Bath, United Kingdom,          (July 20,2015): Menu Contracts in Teams.
• Roy, Jaideep, Department of Economics, Murdoch University, Australia, (July13, 2015): Evaluating Expert Talent by Setting.
• Sarkar, Agnirup, Durham Business School, United Kingdom, (December 9, 2015): Market Capitalisation, Growth and Inflation in a New-Keynesian Framework.
• Yadav, Sonal, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, (August13, 2015): The Equivalence between Adjacent Non-Manipulability and Strategy-Proofness in Voting Domains: A Sufficiency Result.

2014 - 15

• Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank New York, (26.03.2015): The Impact of Accountability Threats on Schools: Extricating the Role of Stigma Versus Sanctions.
• Avik Chakrabarti, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, (March 24, 2015): Cross-border Mergers and Privatization.
• Pramanik, Anup, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, (27.02. 2015): Further Results on Dictatorial Domains.
• Sengupta, Sarbajit, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, (18.02.2015): Choosing Between Formal and Informal Sector Ventures: Property Rights, Credit and Threat of Eviction.
• Bloch, Francis, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics, France, (February 11, 2015): Dynamic Allocation of Objects to Queuing Agents.
• Ritwik Banerjee, Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, (January 29, 2015): Corruption, Norm Violation and the Decay in Social Capital.
• Joo Young Jeon, Department of Economics, University of East Anglia,(December 18, 2014): Profitability and Collusion: An Experimental Investigation.
• Ashmita Gupta, Department of Economics, University of Houston, (December 11, 2014): Effect of Trade Liberalization on Gender Inequality: A Case of India.
• Oindrila Dey, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, (December 4, 2014): Endogenous Favouritism with Status Incentives: A Model of Optimal Inefficiency.
• Nilanjana Roy, Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada, (November 20, 2014): Gains or Pains? Female Inheritance Rights in India and the Health of Young Girls.
• Siddhartha Sharma, Indian School of Business, Hydrabad, (November 13, 2014): Vertical Integration Strategy by Platforms in the Smartphone Industry.
• Arpita Chatterjee, University of New South Wales, Australia, (October 30, 2014): Trade and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India: Theory and Evidence.
• Parikshit Ghosh, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, (25.09.2014): Character Endorsements and Electoral Competition.
• Kenmei Tsubota, Institute of Developing Economics, Japan, (August 25, 2014): Economic Impact of Political Protests (Strikers) on Firms: Evidence from Bangladesh.
• Shrabani Saha, Lincoln Business School, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, (August 21, 2014): The Nexus between Democracy and Good Governance: A Cross-National Analysis in a Non-Linear Framework.
• Kaustav Das, Department of Economics, University Exeter Business School, United Kingdom, (August 14, 2014): Strategic Experimentation with Heterogeneous Agents and Payoff Externalities.
• Avik Chakrabarti, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, (July 17, 2014): Cross-Border Mergers and Market Concentration in a Vertically Related Industry: Theory and Evidence.
• Suman Seth, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, (July 10, 2014): Measuring and Decomposing Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor using Ordinal Data:  A Counting Approach.
• Anil K. Bera, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA, (July 9, 2014): Contrasts between Modelling Time Series and Spatial Data.
• Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, (July 2, 2014): Self-control Preferences and Expected Utility.
• Saurav Roychoudhury, Department of Economics, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, (July 3, 2014): Innovation Governance and Competition.
• Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, (July 4, 2014): Diffusion of Innovation.
• Swaprava, Nath, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, (June 17, 2014): Affine Maximizers in Domains with Selfish Valuations.
• Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, (June 13, 2014): Offshoring and Dual Labour Markets in Developing Nations.
• Soumyanetra Munshi, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, (June 12, 2014): Arranged Marriage Education and Dowry: A Contract-theoretic Perspective.
• Kaushik Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (May 29, 2014): Impact of Technology on the Seasonality of Currency in Circulation: Evidence from the USA and India.
• Rittwik Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, (April 10, 2014): A Collusion-proof and Efficient Mechanism for Asymmetric Bidders.
• Debopam Bhattacharya, Department of Economic, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, (April 08, 2014):  Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice.

2013 - 14

• Bandyopadhyay, Debasis, University of Auckland, New- Zealand, (January 10, 2014): Economic Wellbeing of A Society In A Culture of Violence Against Women.
• Banik, Nilanjan, Glocal University,UK., (August 20, 2013): Is India Shining? 
• Basu, Deepankar, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (August 1, 2013): An Empirical Investigation of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India.
• Bera, K. Anil, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA., (July 25, 2013): Spatial Regression: The Curious Case of Negative Dependence.
• Bhattacharjee, Subhra, United Nations Development Programme, (July 23, 2013): Capturing Preferences under Incomplete Scenarios Using Elicited Choice Probabilities.
• Chakraborty, Tanika, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, (July 18, 2013): Court-ship Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship.
• Chattopadhyay, Srobonti, Department of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi., (April 18, 2013): Selling a Technological Innovation Through Auction in an Oligopolistic Industry.
• Dasgupta, Swapan, Dalhousie University, Canada., (December 20, 2013): On a Model of Forestry.
• De, Kumar, Utpal, Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shilong, (January 29, 2014): Changing Climate and the Agricultural Scenario of Assam since 1950.
• Ghatak, Maitreesh, London School of Economics, UK., (August 8, 2013): Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance.
• Gupta, Rangan, University of Pretoria, South Africa, (December 19, 2013): Socio-Political Instability and Growth Dynamics.
• Lahiri, Kajal, University at Albany: SUNY, USA., (January 3, 2014): Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood.
• Munshi, Soumyanetra, Department of Economics, IGIDR, Mumbai., (December 3, 2013): Analysis of Conflict within a Contested Land: the Case of Kashmir.  

2012 - 13

• Bandyopadhyay, Taradas, University of California, Riverside, USA, (February 1, 2013): Rational Choice Procedures.
• Basu, Somdutta, the Pennsylvania State University, USA, (July 19, 2012): Reputation for Two Audiences: Rating Agencies, Auditors and Issuer-pays Markets.
• Basu, Somdutta, the Pennsylvania State University, USA, (January 3, 2013): Does It Take a Village? Informal Insurance and Group Size under Individual Liability Loans.
• Bhattacharya, Biswanath, Asian Development Bank, (August 24, 2012): ASEAN, the PRC, and India: The Great Transformation.
• Bhattacharya, Biswanath, Asian Development Bank, (January 24, 2013): Determinants of Bond Market Development in Asia. 
• Bhattacharya, S. Prasad, Deakin University, (January 10, 2013): Land Reform Initiatives and Implementation in a World Country Panel.
• Chakrabarti, Saumya, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan Birbhum, (January 30, 2013): Unorganised Manufacturing in India: Structural Transformation / Exclusion / Marginalisation?
• Chakravarty, Sujoy, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, (June 14, 2012): Keeping One�s World: A Laboratory Study of Promises and Integrity.
• Chowdhury, Modak, Subhasish, University of East Anglia, UK, (December 20, 2012): The Max-Min Group Contest with Applications to Turf Wars.
• Dam, Kanishka, Centro de Investigation y Docencia Economicas, (January 2, 2013): Incentives and Competition in Microfinance.
• Das, Kaustav, the Pennsylvania State University, USA, (August 3, 2012): Competition, Duplication and Learning in R & D.
• De, Kumar, Utpal, Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shilong, (February 7, 2013): Integration of States Through Globalisation and Development Across the Continents.
• Dutta, Arijita, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, (June 7, 2012): Hospital Efficiency: Measurement and Determinants.
• Mallick, Indrajit, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, (July 26, 2012): Optimal Bankruptcy Procedure under Asymmetric Information.
• Mohapatra, Prasad, Debi, Department of Economics, Cornell University, USA, (January 9, 2013): Heterogeneous Beliefs and Wealth Dynamics in a Binary Hidden Markov Model.
• Mutuswami, Suresh, University of Leicester, UK., (April, 27, 2012): Bargaining in an ambiguous environment.
• Sinha, Bhanu, Uday, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economic, Delhi, (June 22, 2012): International Cartels with Spheres of Influence
• Veettil, Chellattan, Prakashan, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, (August 27, 2012): Application of Choice Modeling in Policy Analysis Complementary Institutions and Nutrition Labelling. 

2011 - 12

• Basu, Sujata, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, (August 10, 2011): Endogenous Human Capital Formation Distance to Frontier and Growth.
• Banerjee, Sanjay, University of Nottingham, UK, (September 21, 2011): Intrinsic Cycles.
• Banerjee, Suman, Nanyang Business School, Singapore (July 12, 2011): Investment Effects of Dual Class Shares.
• Banerjee, Suman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (December 20, 2011): Legal-system Arbitrage and Parent-Subsidiary Capital Structures.
• Bhattacharya, Anindya, Department of Economics, University of York, UK, (April 20, 2011): Allocative Efficiency and An Incentive Scheme for Research.
• Bhattacharya, Debopam, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK, (September 05, 2011): A Nonparametric Test of Fir Treatment with Application to University Admissions.
• Breunig, Robert, Australian National University, (February 09, 2012): Wage Dispersion and Team Performance: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Baseball.
• Chakrabarti, Avik, Department of Economics, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, (December, 28, 2011): North-South Trade and Skilled-Unskilled Wage Inequality: The Role of Asymmetric Adjustment Costs.
• Chatterjee, Debipriya, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, (June 28, 2011): Endogenous Hierarchies under Representational Concerns.
• Chatterjee, Kalayan, Pennsylvania State University, USA, (August 03, 2011): Pre-electoral Coalitions and Post-election Bargaining.
• Chowdhury, M. Subhasish, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, UK, (January 05, 2012):Top Guns May Not Fire: Best-Shot Group Contests with Group-Specific Public Good Prizes.
• Das, Kaustav, Pennsylvania State University, USA, (July 27, 2011): Decentralised Bilateral Trading in Markets with Incomplete Information.
• Das, Kumar, Pranab, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, (September 15, 2011): A Stochastic Frontier Approach to Modelling Financial Constraints in Firms: An Application to India.
• Dasgupta, Kunal, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, (December 05, 2011): Quality Uncertainty and Intermediation in International Trade.
• Dinda, Soumyananda,  Chandragupta Institute of Management, Patna, Bihar (October, 2011): Trade and Environment: Does Globalization Increase Global Warming.
• Gangopadhyay, Kausik, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, (October 25, 2011): Extent of Poverty in India: A Different Dimension. 
• Gupta, Ranjan, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa, (February 02, 2012): Tax Evasion Financial Development and Inflation: Theory and Empirical Evidence.
• Mallik, Rajlaxmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata, (April 21, 2011): Being Credit Rationed: Perception and Transaction Cost.
• Majumdar, Rumki, Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, (April 04, 2011):  The Story of Productivity in the Indian Hardware Electronic Industry.
• Mitra, Siddhartha, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, (April 13, 2011): New Approaches to Measuring Inclusiveness.
• Mukhopadhyay, Sankar, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno. USA,  (October  19, 2011): From Illegal to Legal: The Wage Gain from Legalization. 
• Mukherjee, Debasri, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, USA, (December 22, 2011): Nonparametric Estimation of the Marginal Effects in Fixed-Effects Panel Models: An Application on the Environmental Kuznets Curve.
• Mukherjee, Diganta, Bayesian and Interdisciplinary Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata, (October 13, 2011): Identity, Envy and Resource Loss.
• Nils, Rudi, INSEAD Business School for the World, Singapore, (November 25, 2011): In-play Football Prediction.
• Sanyal, Suman, Department of Mathematics, Marshall University, USA (July 19, 2011): Stochastic Dynamic Equation.
• Sen, Monalisa, Department of Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, (July 14, 2011): Specification Tests for Panel Spatial Models with Misspecification.
• Sengupta, Indranil, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas � EI Paso, USA, (May 23, 2011): Option Pricing with Transaction Costs and Stochastic Volatility in a Financial Market.  

2010 - 11

• Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu, Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St, USA, (June 24, 2010): An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing.
• Bhattacharya, Kaushik, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (June 10, 2010): Emergence of Independent Candidates: A Negative Binomial Regression Model of an Indian Parliamentary Election. 
• Bhattacharya, Sourav, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA, (August, 08 2010): Resistance to Outside Investment: A Rational Model of Surplus Destruction.
• Bhattacharya, Debopam, University of Oxford, (January 10, 2011): Evaluating treatment protocols using data combination.
• Chatterjee, Arpita, University of New South Wales, USA, (January 07, 2011): Who do Similar Countries Choose Different Policies? Endogenous Comparative Advantage & Welfare Gains.
• Chaudhury, Kausik, Leeds University Business School, UK (April 06, 2010): Clustering, Inter-Family Heterogeneity and School Attendance.
• Das, Kaustav, Department of Economics, Penn State University, USA,  (July 28, 2010): Competition in Buyer-Seller Markets: One-Sided Simultaneous Offers Bargaining.
• Dey, Malay, Independent, Fairfield, CT06824, USA (July 22, 2010): New Directions in Financial Econometrics.
• Ghosh, Sambudha, Department of Economics, Boston University, U.S.A., (January 05,2010): Repeated Adverse Selection: Insurance.
• Ghosh, Saptarshi, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK, (January 06, 2010): Quality, Reputation and Leakage of Expert Advice. 
• Gupta, Sudip, Indian School of Business, Bangalore, (March 09, 2011): Why and When to Go Public: A Structural Estimation?
• Kundu, Tapas, Department of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo, Norway, (April 04, 2010): Conflict and Mobility: Resource Sharing in Groups.
• Maitra, Sudeshna, Department of Economics, York University, Canada,  (February 14, 2011): Population Dynamics and Marriage Payments: An Analysis of the Long Run Equilibrium in India.
• Mukherjee, Anirban, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, (February 17, 2011): Transition of Credit Institutions: Theory and Evidence.
• Ray, Ranjan, Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia, (November 30, 2010):  Multi Dimensional Deprivation in the Awakening Giants: A Comparative Study on Micro Data.
• Sen, Debapriya, Department of Economics, Canada, (September 02, 2010): Relative and Absolute Preference for Quality. 

2009 - 10

• Baksi, Soham, Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg, Canada, (July 15, 2009): Environmental Policy in the Presence of an Informal Sector.
• Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu, Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S.A. (June 18, 2009): Bio-Fuel Subsidies and International Trade.
• Bhattacharya, Joysankar, University of Siena, Italy, (January 19, 2010): Group-participation, Women’s Empowerment and Capability Enhancement: Application of a MIMIC Model in West Bengal.
• Bhattacharya, S. Prasad, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University, Australia, (February, 07 2010): How Do Legal Systems Affect Land Distribution?: A Long-run Disaggregated Analysis.
• Chattopadhyay, Sadhan, Reserve Bank of India, Kolkata (July 10, 2009): Agriculture Financing and Profit Efficiency of the Public Sector Banks.
• Chattopadhyay, Siddhartha, Department of Economics, University at Albany, SUNY, U.S.A., (January 13, 2010): Liquidity Trap, Expectational Dynamics and The Monetary Policy Rule: An Analysis under Adaptive Learning.
• D’Ambrosio, Conchita, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy, (January 07, 2010): Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation.
• Deb, Joyee, New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, (August 06, 2009): Cooperation and Community Responsibility – A Folk Theorem for Repeated Random Matching Games with Names.
• Deb, Partha, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and NBER, (July 30, 2009): Job Loss: Eat, Drink and Try to be Merry?
• Dey, K. Malay, Network Financial Institute, U.S.A., (December 11, 2009):Information Content in Small and Large Trade.
• Gatheral, Jim, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University & Managing Director, Merrill Lynch, U.S.A., (March 08, 2010): Random Matrix Theory and Covariance Estimation.
• Ghosh, Sambuddha, Boston University, Department of Economics, U.S.A., (August 12, 2009): Ideology Beats Ideals: A Paradox of Strategic Voting.
• Gongopadhyay, Kausik, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, (December 29, 2009): Demand for Education: Is Culture a Major Determinant?
• Majumdar, Dipjyoti, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, (July, 23, 2009): Incentive – Compatible Voting Rules with Positively Correlated Beliefs.
• Marjit, Sugata, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, (April 08, 2009): Two Elementary Propositions on Fragmentation and Outsourcing in Pure Theory of International Trade.
• Marjit, Sugata, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, (July 08, 2009): Global Recession and the Indian Economy – Unconventional Wisdom.
• Nadkharni, M.G., Department of Mathematics,  Mumbai University, Mumbai, (April 16, 2009): An Application of Martingale Convergence Theorem to Analyze Company Data.
• Paul, Ketan, Sanjoy, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., (August 28, 2009): Application of GARCH Model to Analyze Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring Data for Glycaemic Management.
• Sengupta, Ramprasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, (December 23, 2009): Prospects and Policies for Low Carbon Economic Growth of India.
• Sen, Rituparna, Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis, U.S.A., (December 30, 2009): Functional Data Analysis for volatility.
• Tarafdar, Suchismitam, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, U.S.A., (March 30, 2010): Optimization in Economies  

2008 - 09 

• Bag, Parimal Kanti National University of Singapore, Department of Economics, Singapore, (January 05, 2009): Communication and Authority with Multiple Sources of Uncertainty.
• Banerjee, Sanjay, Essex University, U.K. (August 13, 2008): Corporate Governance Information Production and Collusion.
• Bera, K. Anil, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, U.S.A. (July 28, 2008): Birth of a Nonlinear Model.
• Chaudhuri, Ananish, Department of Economic, University of Auckland, New Zealand (27^th January, 2009): Social Learning and Conditional Cooperation in a Laboratory Public Goods Game.
• Chowdhury. M. Subhasish, Purdue University, U.S.A. (August 06, 2008): Linear Tullock Contests: A Generalized Structure and the Existence of Multiple Equilibria.
• D' Ambrosio, Conchita, Universita di Milano-Bicocca and DIW Berlin, Italy, (January 15, 2009): Poverty and Time.
• Gangopadhyay, Kausik, Visiting Scientist, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, (July 09, 2008): Women's Labor Supply: Is Mother's Time at Home Investment or Consumption?
• Ghosh, Aurobindo, Singapore Management University, Singapore, (December 26, 2008): Risking Returns: Moving from Public to Private Equity.
• Lahiri, Kajal, University at Albany, SUNY, USA, (23^rd January, 2009): Learning and Heterogeneity in GDP and Inflation Forecasts.
• Marjit, Sugata, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, (July 16, 2008): Fraudulent Financial Practice and Competitive Discipline.
• Mukherjee, Debasri, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, U.S.A., (August 21, 2008): Empirics of Foreign Aid: A Semi Parametric Approach.
• Mukherjee, Diganta, ICFAI Business School Kolkata, Plot J � 3, Block GP, Sector V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 091, (September 10, 2008): Teaching Assessment Trade-off and Performance Related Pay in Education.
• Rao, D.S. Prasada, School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Australia, (December 19, 2008): Stochastic Approach to Index Numbers for Multilateral Price Comparisons and their Standard Errors.
• Ray, Indrajit, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, U.K., (December 12, 2008): Coordination and Cheap Talk.
• Ray, Ranjan, Monash University, Australia, (January 16, 2009): Evaluating the Distributional Implications of Price Movements: Methodology, Application and Australian Evidence.
• Sahu, Sohini, University at Albany, SUNY, USA, (January 07, 2009): Transition Accounting for India in a Multi-sector Dynamic General Equilibrium Model.
• Sengupta, Soumitra, Lamron Analysts, Kolkata, (August 12, 2008): Quantitative Trading Methods.