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:
- HS301: Macroeconomic Problems and Policies
- HS305: Public Finance
- HS405: Issues in International Trade and Finance
I also offer the following PhD courses:
- HS701: Research Methodology
- HS703: Issues in Economics
Conference and Seminar Participations:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Paper presented at the 81st Annual Conference of Southern Economic Association, Washington DC, 2011, November 19-21.
- Paper presented at the Economics Department of Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, USA, 2011
Publication
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Journal
- Karnikaa Bhattacharyya & Kaveri Deb, "An Overshooting Model of Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting: A Threshold Regression Approach", Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies,32, (2025), pages. 106-117, Emerald
- Karnikaa Bhattacharyya & Kaveri Deb, "Comparative Analysis of the Portfolio-balance Models of Exchange Rate Determination", Foreign Trade Review, (2024), pages. 1-25, Sage
- Karnikaa Bhattacharyya & Kaveri Deb, "Analysing a New Portfolio Balance Model with Micro and Macro Determinants of Exchange Rate when Expectations are Rational", Journal of Quantitative Economics,23, (2024), pages. 105-135, Springer
- Kaveri Deb, "Trade Structure and Economic Growth in Emerging and Developing Asia: A Dynamic Panel Analysis", Journal of Quantitative Economics,20, (2022), pages. 601-628, Springer
- Kaveri Deb, Shivika Agrawal & Nishu Kumari, "Investigating the Causes for Currency Depreciation in India: A Quantile Regression Approach", The IUP Journal of Applied Economics,20, (2021), pages. 28-42, IUP
- Kaveri Deb, "Global Value Chains in India and their Impact on Gender Wage Disparity", Foreign Trade Review,57, (2021), pages. 452-472, Sage
- Kaveri Deb & William R. Hauk Jr, "The Impact of Chinese Imports on Indian Wage Inequality", The Indian Journal of Labour Economics,63, (2020), pages. 267-290, Springer
- Kaveri Deb & Bodhisattva Sengupta, "Value-added Trade and Empirical Distributions of RCA Indices", Journal of Quantitative Economics,16, (2018), pages. 235-264, Springer
- Kaveri Deb & Bodhisattva Sengupta, "On Empirical Distribution of RCA Indices", IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review ,6, (2017), pages. 23-41, Sage
- Kaveri Deb & William R. Hauk Jr., "RCA Indices, Multinational Production and the Ricardian Trade Model", International Economics and Economic Policy,14, (2017), pages. 1-25, Springer
- Kaveri Deb & Partha Basu, "South Asian Free Trade Area and its Impact on Exports of SAARC LDCs to India", Decision,39, (2012), pages. 21-44, Springer
- Kaveri Deb & Partha Basu, "Indices of Revealed Comparative Advantage and their Consistency with the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory: A Cross Sectional Analysis", Foreign Trade Review,46, (2011), pages. 3-28, Sage
Conference
- Kaveri Deb, and Partha Basu, "Consistency of Revealed Comparative Advantage Indices with the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory", Conference Proceedings of Knowledge Globalization Conference,6(1), (2012), pages. 122-135, Pune, India.