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2025
2025
The Department of Economics and Oikos jointly organised a lecture on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Children in India. The lecture was delivered by Mr. Prabhat Kumar, Social Policy Specialist, UNICEF on 19th February, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
The department organised a lecture by Professor Subhasish M Chowdhury of University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 15th January 2025. He spoke on "The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behaviour." Banner
On January 8, 2025, the Economics Department at Presidency University, Kolkata, successfully hosted a talk by Anindya Banerjee, Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham. The lecture, titled "Panel Cointegration Bounds Testing with Common Factors," took place at 2 PM in the Economics Lecture Theatre. The event provided valuable insights into advanced econometric methods and their applications. Banner
2024
2024
On November 26, 2024, the Deapartment of Economics, Presidency University hosted an interactive session with Prof. Niloy Bose, Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Tech University, marking the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Presidency University and the Department of Economics, Virginia Tech University.
The Department of Economics at Presidency University organized a talk by Subha Mani, Professor of Economics at Fordham University, on July 24, 2024, at 3:30 PM in the Economics Lecture Theater. During her presentation titled "A Glass Half Full - Experimental Evidence from a Multifaceted Program for Adolescents in India," Professor Mani shared insights from her research on development economics and human capital accumulation. Her work focuses on understanding the pathways through which adolescents can benefit from various programs aimed at enhancing their well-being and future opportunities.
The Department of Economics, Presidency University organised a lecture series on "Philosophy and Politics of Economic Planning and Development" in July 2024. Achin Chakraborty, Professor and Former Director, IDSK delivered lectures on 11th July (at 2.30 PM), 12th July (at 12 noon) and 15th July (at 12 noon). Anjan Chakrabarti, Professor of Economics, University of Calcutta delivered his lecture on 18th July (at 10.20 AM).
In April 2024, the Department of Economics at Presidency University successfully hosted a series of talks on “Career in Analytics.” The series featured Ms. Debaleena Shome, Director of Global Analytics Delivery at FICO, who presented on April 13th, and Mr. Rahul Ranjan Sharma, Associate VP of Consulting at Tiger Analytics, who spoke on April 20th. Both online sessions offered valuable insights and guidance to students interested in pursuing careers in the rapidly evolving field of analytics, covering topics from industry trends to practical applications and career opportunities. The talks were well-received and provided participants with a comprehensive understanding of the analytics landscape.
ICSSR funded dissimination workshop on Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi: An Evaluation Of Selected Rural Households In Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal was organised by the Department of Economics, Presidency University at 2.15 PM on 21 February 2024. Click here for details.
Prof. Raghu Nandan Sengupta of the Department of Management Sciences (DoMS), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur delivered a lecture on 'Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization Problems for Extreme Value Asset Returns under Symmetric and Asymmetric Loss Functions' on January 17, 2023 in Room 30 A in the Department. Download: slides
2023
2023
Dr. Sounak Thakur, Assistant Professor of Economics, IIT Kanpur, spoke on "Difference-in-differences: applications and extensions" during the workshop held on 1 September 2023 (Friday) in the department. Download the brochure.
Professor Anjan Chakrabarti of Department of Economics, University of Calcutta spoke online on Political Economy of Indian Planning on 12th August, 2023 from 11 AM to 1 PM. Download the banner.
Dr. Saswata Ghosh, Associate Professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) delivered a special lecture on "Demographic dividend in India: Is it a ‘Demographic Gift’ or a ‘Demographic Burden’" on Wednesday, 2 Aug 2023 at 3 pm in the department. Download the banner and the flyer (with abstract) for the event.
2022
2022
Economics Department organised a Seven Day Faculty Upgradation Workshop on EXPLORING SPACE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SPATIAL STATISTICS & ECONOMETRICS during 22 - 29 August 2022. The resource persons for the workshop were Prof. Kiranmoy Das, Applied Statistics Division, ISI Kolkata, Prof. Bhaswati Ganguli, Statistics Department, Calcutta University and Dr. Sattwik Santra, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Prof. Zakir Husain and Prof. Mousumi Dutta of the Economics Department, Presidency University.
2020
2020
Economics Department organised e-workshop on Econometrics and Finance during 9 - 30 September 2020. The different topics covered during the workshop were:
An introduction to Bond and Equity valuation (9, 10 Sept, 2020) Dr. Saswatee Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Economics, Presidency University
An introduction to Exploratory Factor Analysis (15, 16 Sept, 2020) Prof. Mousumi Dutta, Professor of Economics, Presidency University
Modelling volatility: Use of ARCH and GARCH models (21-24 Sept 2020) Prof. Supravat Bagli, Associate Professor of Economics, Presidency University
Evaluating Firm Health with Financial Ratios (21-24 Sept, 2020) Professor Gagari Chakrabarti, Professor of Economics, Presidency University
Impact Evaluation: Theory and Practice (28-30 Sept, 2020) Professor Zakir Husain, Professor of Economics, Presidency University
Economics Department and Oikos (Presidency University Economics Society) organised a discussion on the Union Budget: 2020 on 11th February, 2020 from 3.45 PM at P.C. Mahalonobis Auditorium. Prof. Partha Ray, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata was the speaker. You can download the lecture slides here.
2019
2019
Special lecture on “The Fine Art of Questionnaire Designing: 1 & 2”- Prof. Dipankar Coondoo, Retired Professor, Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata , Date: 7th & 8th November, 2019 at 2.30 P.M., Research Scholar’s Room, Economics Department, Presidency University.
Prof. Suresh Mutuswami, Leicester University, UK, delivered a series of lectures on 'Social Network Analysis' on 29 March 2019, 9 & 11 April 2019.
Prof. Diganta Mukherjee, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta, delivered a lecture on 'Factor Analysis & Cluster Analysis' on 25 & 26 March 2019.
Prof. Saswata Ghosh, Health Specialist, Centre for health policy, ADRI, Patna spoke on 'Databases on Reproductive Health and Demography' on 25 March 2019.
Prof. Nandini Ghosh, Professor, IDSK delivered a series of lectures on 'Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research' on 26 Feb 2019, 12 & 19 March 2019.
Prof. Ananish Choudhuri, Professor of Experimental Economics, & Head of the Economics Department, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand conducted 'A Mini Course on Experimental Economics' on 18 & 27 Jan 2019.
Prof. Achin Chakrabarty, Professor, IDSK, delivered lectures on 'Research Methodology in Economics' during 15-16 Jan 2019.
Prof. Anil Bera, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivered a series of lectures on 'Spatial Analysis: From the Big-bang to Pre-history to the Frontier of Spatial Econometrics ' during 3-5 Jan 2019.
2018
2018
A National Workshop on "Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Hedging and Trading" during 3-6 February, 2018.
Prof Rajeeva Karandikar, Director, Chennai Mathematical Institute: 'Introduction to Options Pricing' on 3rd February 2018
Prof. Sankarshan Basu, IIM Bangalore: 'Introduction to Derivatives- Equity, Currency and Interest Rate Derivatives: the functions and uses' and 'Hedging strategies using Derivatives: Theories and Practical Applications' on 5th February 2018
Prof. Binay Bhushan Chakrabarti, Retired professor, IIM Calcutta: 'Trading with options: The Greek Letters (Theory and Practical)' on 6th February 2018
A National Workshop on “Macroeconomic Theory and Policy” was held from 29 January– 2 February 2018:
Mihir Kanti Rakshit, Rtd. Professor, Presidency College, Kolkata: ‘The core of Macroeconomics’
Monisankar Bishnu, Faculty, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi: ‘Dynamic Optimization in Macroeconomics and some applications’.
Prof. Soumyen Sikdar, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Kolkata: ‘Overlapping Generation Models’
Dr. Vipul Mathur, Faculty, Indian Institute of Management Kolkata: ‘Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium’
Dr. Soumya Chakrabarti, Visva Bharati University: ‘Structuralist Macro Models’
Dr. Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University: ‘Growth models’
Prof. Chetan Ghate, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi delivered a special lecture ‘A Monetary Business Cycle Model for India’ on 27 February 2018.
Two-day National Workshop on “Environment and Resource Economics” was held on 26– 27 February 2018:
Dr. K S Kavi Kumar, Professor, Madras School of Economics delivered a talk ‘Fiscal Instruments for Environmental Management’ on 26 February 2018.
Prof. Jeta Sankrityayana, Department of Economics, Sikkim University delivered a talk ‘Managing Water Resources: The Riparian Issues’ on 26 February 2018.
Dr. Indrani Roy Chowdhury, Faculty, CSRD, JNU delivered a series of lectures ‘Economics of Renewable Resources’on 26 – 27 February 2018.
Prof. A Damodaran, IPR Chair on IP Management (MHRD), IIM Bangalore delivered a lecture ‘Circular Economics and Sustainable Development’ on 27 February 2018.
Prof. Kajal Lahiri, Department of Economics, University at Albany, SUNY delivered a special lecture ‘Forecast Combination for Binary Targets’ in 18 February 2018.
Dr. Sourav Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, delivered a series of lectures ‘The simple economics of violent conflict’ on 13th August – 16th August 2018.
Dr. Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Public Policy, School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Shiv Nadar University delivered a series of lectures ‘Performance Measurement Techniques’ on 30 th , 31 st July and 1 st & 2nd August 2018.
Dr. Dhiman Bhadra, Associate Professor, Production & Quantitative Methods, IIM Ahmedabad delivered a series of lectures on ‘Semi-parametric techniques and their applications in economics’ on 13 to 17 August 2018.
Prof. Niloy Bose, Professor, Virginia Tech University, USA delivered a series of lectures on ‘Modeling Consequences of Income Distribution in Macroeconomics’ and ‘Information Frictions in Macro Models’ on 6 September 2018.
Dr. Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University delivered a series of lectures on ‘The evolution of homo economicus’ on 30 October – 1 November 2018.
Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak, FBA, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics delivered a special lecture on ‘Why people stay poor?’ on 18 December 2018.
Prof. Kajal Lahiri, Department of Economics, University at Albany, SUNY delivered special lecture ‘How do households think of inflation? An analysis of RBI survey data on expectations, 2006 - 2018’ on 26 December 2018.
2017
2017
A Three day Workshop on ‘Big data and Nonparametric Econometrics’ was held on 13th, 14th & 16th October 2017
Prof. Abhiman Das of IIM Ahmedabad
Dr. Dhiman Bhadra of IIM Ahmedabad
Prof. Pulak Ghosh, ex-Infosys Foundation Chair Professor in Economics in Presidency University
Invited lecture by Prof. Ranajoy Bhattacharyya of IIFT, Kolkata on International Trade and Economic Growth on 16 th October 2017.
Second International Conference on Issues in Economic Theory and Policy was held on 14th December 2017.
Plenary lectures delivered by Prof. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Plenary lectures delivered by Professor A. Damodaran, Professor and IPR Chair on IP Management (MHRD), IIM Bangalore, India.
Lecture series by Anindya Sundar Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad on Dynamic Models of Macroeconomics, 27 – 31 March 2017.
2016
2016
Capacity building workshop on “Learning Statistical Package for Social Sciences” by Dr. Saswata Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata on 11 and 13 January, 2016.
A National-level Capacity Building Workshop on “Econometrics and Finance” was held from 14-19 January, 2016:
Prof. Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR, Mumbai:
Modeling Financial Default: Probit and Logit Models.
Modeling Volatility: ARCH, GARCH and EGARCH Models.
Modeling Movements in Bond Prices: Count Data Models
Selection Models
Prof. Pulak Ghosh, Professor, Presidency University and IIM Bangalore:
Survival analysis
Advanced regression models
Prof. Diganta Mukherjee, Professor, ISI (Kolkata):
Introducing / refreshing financial derivative contracts
Valuation of contracts in discrete time models: Computation using Binomial tree
Continuous time model- The Black-Scholes model
Related issues: Implied volatility (estimation)
Mr. Arnab Mallick, Phoenix Conveyor Belt India Private Ltd.: ‘Changing dynamics of commodity market’
Prof. Dipankar Coondoo, Professor, IDSK (Kolkata): Valedictory Lecture
Capacity building workshop on “Learning Statistical Package for Social Sciences” by Dr. Zakir Husain, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Dr. Saswata Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata on 1-2 February, 2016
Science Congress on Applied Economics with technical session ‘Economic Theory: Some Applications’ was held on 28-29 February, 2016.
Prof. Anup Kr. Sinha, Professor of Economics, IIM Calcutta: Sustainable Development: Complexities of Science and Society
Prof. Ajitava Raychaudhuri, Professor, Jadavpur University: India and the Global Economy : How can Manufacturing Sector take Advantage of the Increasing Linkage
Prof. Achin Chakraborty, Director & Professor of Economics ,Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
A talk on ‘Reading between the lines: Deciphering the Budget 2016’ by Prof. Partha Ray, IIM Calcutta on 30 March, 2016
Dr. Souvik Dutta, Assistant Professor in Economics, Economics and Social Sciences Area and Young Faculty Research Chair, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore delivered a special lecture ‘Ethnic Conflict and Civic Engagement’ on 2 June, 2016.
Dr. Shourjo Chakravorty, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University delivered a special lecture ‘A study of the negotiated-settlement practice in regulation: Some evidence from Florida’ on 20 July , 2016.
Punarjit Roychowdhury, Ph.D. Scholar in Economics, Southern Methodist University, USA delivered a special lecture ‘Peer effects in consumption’ on 26 July, 2016.
Dr. Parama Chaudhury, University College of London delivered special interactive lectures ‘The Curriculum in Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE) project and teaching economics in an active way’ and ‘Inequality with CORE Project’ on 10 and 11 August, 2016.
Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics delivered a series of special lecture ‘Persistence of poverty and anti-poverty policies’ on 16-18 August 2016.
Prof. N. R. Prabhala, Professor of Finance at University of Maryland and Chief Mentor and Head of Research, CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai delivered a special lecture ‘Policy, politics and credit supply’on 17 October 2016.
A National-level Capacity Building Programme on “Big data, Economics and Finance” was held on 20-26 October, 2016:
Dr. R. B. Barman, Chairman, National Statistical Commission and Ex-Officio Minister of State, Government of India: Rethinking Economics, Statistical System and Welfare.
Prof. Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR, Mumbai: Risk Modeling and Duration Model
Prof. Probal Chaudhuri, Professor, ISI Kolkata: Nonparametric Statistics for High Dimensional Data
Prof. Abhiman Das, Professor, IIM (Ahmedabad): Non-Parametric Econometrics
Dr. Jayanta Kumar Seal, Associate Professor, IIFT, Kolkata: Risk Management
Dr. Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Chief Economic Advisor, SBI: Macro Policy
Prof. Pulak Ghosh, Infosys Chair Professor, Presidency University: Data Analytics in Economics
Prof. Sandeep Juneja, Professor, TIFR, Mumbai: Modeling portfolio credit risk
2015
2015
Dr Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR, delivered series of lectures, Workshop on “Discrete choice models and ARCH/GARCH models in Risk Modelling” on 19 th -21 st March 2015
International Conference on “Issues in Economic Theory and Policy” on 2nd November 2015 (N K Memorial Lecture)
Prof Shamnad Basheer, Honorary Research Chair Professor of IP Law, Institute of Law, Nirma University delivered the first Nirmal Kanti Majumdar Memorial lecture on "The end of exclusivity: Investing in a compulsory commons" on 2nd November, 2015
Dr Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics delivered lecture “Seminar on Legacy of John Nash” on 14 August 2015
Prof. Esther Duflo, MIT & JAYPAL: “The Role of Women in the Panchayati Raj”, 2nd January, 2015.
Dr. Arnab Biswas, University of Wisconsin, Stout: “Media Freedom and Gender Equality”, 7th January, 2015
Prof. Subrata Sarkar, IGIDR: “Discrete Choice Models and ARCH/GARCH techniques in Risk Modeling”, 19th-21st March, 2015.
Dr. Caprice Knapp, Pennsylvania State University: Workshop on Health Policy, 25th & 26th March, 2015
Dr. Indranil Mukherjee, West Bengal University of Technology: “Quantitative Finance”, 27th April, 2015.
2014
2014
Dr. Bimal Jalan, ex-Governor, Reserve Bank of India: Public Lecture on “Economics, Politics & Governance”, 28th April, 2014, followed by interaction with students of Economics Department
Prof. Dilip Mukherjee of Boston University: 7th Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture on “Economic Empowerment of Poor Farmers in West Bengal”, 22nd July, 2014.
Dissemination seminar organized in collaboration with Reserve Bank of India: Release of RBI Annual Report 2013-14, 3rd September, 2014
UGC-funded Workshop on “Econometric Analysis with SPSS and R”, 22nd - 24th September, 2014. Resource persons: Dr Diganta Mukherjee (ISI, Kolkata), Dr Saswata Ghosh (IDSK), Dr Sattwik Santra (CSSS), Ms Suranjana Joardar (Usha Martin Academy)
Dr. Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University, Newark: “Immigration Networks and Trade Creation”, 9th December, 2014.
2013
2013
Talk on Incentive theory, entitled Money and Motivation, by Prof. Parikshit Ghosh of Delhi School of Economics on September 4th, 2013.
Workshops on Mixed and Behavioural Strategies and Equilibrium in Mixed Strategies by Prof. Indrajit Ray of University of Birmingham on September 16th and 17th, 2013.
Interactive lecture on Correlation and Cheap Talk by Prof. Indrajit Ray of University of Birmingham on September 18th, 2013.
2012
2012
Workshop on ‘Time Series Econometrics’ (3 rd to 5 th September; 11 th ,14 th , 18 th and 21 st September, 2012) by Diganta Mukherjee & Nityananda Sarkar
Seminar on ‘Economic Theory and Policy: Multiple Facets’ (26-28 September, 2012) by Mihir Kanti Rakshit, Soumyen Sikdar, Amitava Bose, Anup Kumar Sinha, Arijit Sen
Workshop on ‘Cluster Analysis’ (11 th - 12 th October, 2012) by Diganta Mukherjee
Two day workshop on Financial Economics (5-6 th November, 2012) by Prof. Amitava Sarkar, Mr. Siddhartha Chatterjee, Prof. Basabi Bhattacharyya, Dr. Rajlakshmi Mallick
Workshop on ‘Applied Econometrics with STATA’ (29th November) by Zakir Husain
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