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Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati

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Dr. Kaveri Deb
Dr. Kaveri Deb Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Guwahati)

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
About

Hello, welcome to my home page. I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. I completed my PhD from IIT Guwahati. The title of my thesis was "Indices of Comparative Advantage: A Study with Focus on Differences between Gross Trade and Value-Added Trade." Prior to my PhD, I completed Masters and M.Phil. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. I did B.Sc. in Economics from Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta.

Research Interests

  • International Trade
  • International Finance
  • Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Economics of Development

PhD Students

  • Karnikaa Bhattacharyya (Topic: Examining the Relevance of Portfolio Balance Model towards Determination and Forecasting of India's Exchange Rate by Incorporating the Effects of Microstructure Theory; Status: Thesis submitted)
  • Binita Dey (Topic: The impact of Global Value Chains on Productivity and Employment of India; Status: Continuing)
  • Marami Das (continuing)

Teaching

I offer the following B.Tech courses:

  1. HS301: Macroeconomic Problems and Policies
  2. HS305: Public Finance
  3. HS405: Issues in International Trade and Finance

I also offer the following PhD courses:

  1. HS701: Research Methodology
  2. HS703: Issues in Economics

Conference and Seminar Participations:

  1. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), held at University of Richmond, Virginia, USA, 2023, May 23-26.
  2. Paper presented at the AIB (Academy of International Business) South Asia Chapter Conference, held virtually at Indian Institute of Management(IIM) Visakhapatnam, 2022, January 23-25.
  3. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), held at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, 2018, May 23-26.
  4. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), organized by Shri Mata Vaishnodevi University, Katra, Jammu, 2018, March 7-9.
  5. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), organized by Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kerala, 2016, January 4-6.
  6. Paper presented at the Fourth Research Conference on Empirical Issues in International Trade and Finance, organised by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, 2014, December 18-19
  7. Paper presented at the Graduate Research Meet, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2014, 31st October - 1st November.
  8. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Conference of Southern Economic Association, Washington DC, 2011, November 19-21.
  9. Paper presented at the Economics Department of Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, USA, 2011

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