Dr. Kaveri Deb Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Guwahati) Department of Humanities & Social Sciences- kaveri@iiitg.ac.in
Joined the Institute in July 2016
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
My research area can broadly be expressed as International Trade and Economic Development. Particularly, I am interested in applications of different theories of trade, multilateral trade negotiations, regional trade agreements and global production networks. I am equally interested in International Finance, particularly on issues related to Balance of Payment of nations, and the dynamics of exchange rate
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 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
- Kaveri Deb, Shivika Agrawal and Nishu Kumari, "Investigating the Causes for Currency Depreciation in India: A Quantile Regression Approach", The IUP Journal of Applied Economics,20(3), (2021), pages. 28-42,
- Kaveri Deb, "Global Value Chains in India and their Impact on Gender Wage Disparity,", Foreign Trade Review (Sage), (2021), DOI: 10.1177/00157325211024003.
- Kaveri Deb, and William R. Hauk Jr, "The Impact of Chinese Imports on Indian Wage Inequality", The Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Springer),,63(2), (2020), pages. 267-290, DOI: 10.1007/s41027-020-00218-5.
- Kaveri Deb, and Bodhisattva Sengupta, "Value-added Trade and Empirical Distributions of RCA Indices", Journal of Quantitative Economics (Springer),16(1), (2018), pages. 235-264, DOI: 10.1007/s40953-017-0071-x.
- Kaveri Deb, and Bodhisattva Sengupta, "On Empirical Distribution of RCA Indices", Society and Management Review (Sage),6(1), (2017), pages. 23-41, DOI: 10.1177/2277975216676125.
- Kaveri Deb, and William R. Hauk Jr, "RCA Indices, Multinational Production and the Ricardian Trade Model", International Economics and Economic Policy (Springer),14 (1), (2017), pages. 1-25, DOI: 10.1007/s10368-015-0317-z
- Kaveri Deb, and Partha Basu, "South Asian Free Trade Area and its Impact on Exports of SAARC LDCs to India", Decision (Springer),39(2), (2012), pages. 21-44,,
- Kaveri Deb, and Partha Basu, "Indices of Revealed Comparative Advantage and their Consistency with the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory: A Cross Sectional Analysis,", Foreign Trade Review (Sage),46(3), (2011), pages. 3-28,
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.