Thank you for visiting my personal website. I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management; Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. My fields of interest include empirical Political Economics, Public Economics, Law and Economics, Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Business Ethics. My current research is based on topics such as corruption and governance, public finance, public trust in institutions, economics of crime, political and institutional drivers of economic outcomes, elections, labour laws and labour market institutions.  

Earlier, I was on the faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai and Indian Institute of Management Amritsar, and have held academic positions at ICRIER, University of Zurich (Switzerland), and Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore. I have also had pre-doctoral stints at Institute of Economic Growth Delhi, erstwhile Planning Commission, and Tata Motors Limited, Mumbai (in chronological order). I have a Masters in Economics from University of Hyderabad, and a PhD in Economics (Thesis title: "Essays on Empirical Political Economics") from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I am also an alumnus of Bhadrak Autonomous College, Odisha. During my student days, I'd achieved state-level and university-level merit ranks, several scholarships and awards at different stages. I've been a reviewer of several international peer-reviewed economics, political science, and social science journals. I am a Fellow of Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany. Since 2022, I've been an Associate Editor at two Scopus-indexed journals, namely, SN Business & Economics (subject area: Public Policy and Institutional Economics) and SN Social Sciences (subject area: Education, Development & Social Justice). 

Office Address: Room no. 23, School of Earth, Ocean & Climate Sciences Building, IIT Bhubaneswar. Email: spanda@iitbbs.ac.in. 

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