Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay

Curriculum Vitae                                         

NAME:                                                              DR. SOMNATH   CHATTOPADHYAY

 

PRESENT POSITION:                               ASSISTANT PROFESSOR; 

                                                                              DEPT. OF ECONOMICS (D.O.J: 29.11.16)

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

 

  • PH. D in QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS (INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, 2011)
  • M. SC in ECONOMICS; Special. Paper: STATISTICS & ECONOMETRICS, Optional Paper: OPERATIONS RESEARCH (UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA, 2003)
  • B. SC in ECONOMICS with STATISTICS and MATHEMATICS (UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA, 2001)

 

QUALIFIED IN CBSE-UGC NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST (NET) & UGC ACCREDITED STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST (SET) IN ECONOMICS

 

Research Interest:

  •  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES, FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS, SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS

TEACHING INTEREST:

  • ECONOMETRICS, STATISTICS, MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS, MICROECONOMICS, TIME SERIES ECONOMETRICS, MATHEMATICS

Publications:

 

  • JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

  1. “Estimating Spatial Consumer Price Indices through Engel Curve Analysis” published in Review of Income and Wealth, 57(1), 138-155, 2011 (WILEY-BLACKWELL)
  2. “District-level Poverty Estimation: A proposed Method” published in Journal of   

  Applied Statistics, 38 (10), 2327-2343, 2011 (TAYLOR & FRANCIS)

  1. “Analysis of Poverty and Efficiency: An Earnings Frontier Approach” published in Bulletin of Economic Research, 66 (2), 133-155, 2014 (WILEY-BLACKWELL)
  2. “Inter-regional Poverty Comparisons: Case of West Bengal” published in Journal of Quantitative Economics, 9 (2), 104-122, 2011.  (SPRINGER)
  3. “Decomposition of Inter-regional Poverty Gap in India: A Spatial Approach” published in Empirical Economics, 46(1), 65-99, 2014 (SPRINGER).
  4. “District level Poverty Estimation: A Spatial Approach” published in Economics Bulletin, 30 (4), 2962-2977, 2010
  5. “Earnings Efficiency and Poverty Dominance Analysis: A Spatial Approach” published in Economics Bulletin, 31 (3), 2298-2318, 2011. 
  6. “Global Macroeconomic Performances: A Comparative Study Based on Composite Scores” published in Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 4 (2015),  51-68
  7. “Effects of Market Reforms and External Shocks on Indian Stock Indices: Evidence on Structural Breaks and Efficiency” published in Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 6 (2017), 426-442.
  8. “Distributional Heterogeneity in FDI Inflows into India: A State-level Analysis” published in Money & Finance, November 2014.
  9. An Exploration into the Predictability of Stock Prices in India: Mean Reversion vs. Random Walk” published in Money & Finance, April 2016.
  10. “Occupational Gender Segregation and the Regional Gap in Poverty: A Decomposition Analysis” published in IOSR-JHSS, 22(8), 2017
  • BOOK CHAPTERS
  1. “Global Liquidity – A Review of Concepts, Measurement, and Effect on Asset Prices: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact on the Indian Stock Market", Das, R.C. (Ed.) The Impacts of Monetary Policy in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Emerging Economies, EMERALD PUBLISHING LIMITED, Bingley, pp. 277-289. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-319-820191027

 

  1. “Globalization and Sustainable Economic Development: Evaluating Country Performances through Composite Rankings” Das, R.C. (Ed.) Globalization, Income Distribution and Sustainable Development-a theoretical and empirical investigation, EMERALD PUBLISHING LIMITED (FORTHCOMING)

 

  • WORKING PAPERS:
  1. “Assessing Relative Macroeconomic Performances of Countries during the Covid-19 Pandemic through Composite Performance Score based Rankings” (Currently under Review)
  2. Currently collaborating (for IIT KANPUR) for a proposed Book Chapter on the broad theme “Quantitative Methods for Decision Making” (to be published by SPRINGER).
  3. Working for Book Chapters (for   two proposals from PALGRAVE MACMILLAN) for two edited books titled (tentative) “Convergence, Inclusiveness and Economic Aspects of Bank Credit Allocations in BRICS Nations: Special focus on the provinces” & "Convergence and Inclusiveness through Socio-economic indicators in different Income Groups: New insights from theories and empirics across the world”
  4. Five other theoretical papers are there in different stages of completion.

 

EDITORIAL WORK:

Refereed for

  • Journal of Applied Statistics (TAYLOR & FRANCIS),
  • Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (TAYLOR & FRANCIS),
  • Geographical Analysis (WILEY),
  • Economics Bulletin,
  • Money & Finance,
  • IGI Global,
  • Journal of Economic Theory and Practice (SAGE),
  • Computational Economics (SPRINGER)

Acted as an Economist and as a member of the editorial team of Money & Finance edited by Prof. MIHIR RAKSHIT under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. RANGARAJAN (former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India).

 

PAST EXPERIENCE:

  • Affiliation to INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE in the position of Junior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Visiting Scholar and Visiting Scientist during the period 2005-2012.
  • More than four years of INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. Served as an Economist at ICRA Ltd. (A MOODY’S INVESTORS SERVICE COMPANY) during the period 2012-2016.

 

SOFTWARE SKILL: 

  • STATA, MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, EVIEWS, R.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (RELATED TO CAS):

 

 

  • COMPLETED THE (THREE-WEEK) 117TH ORIENTATION PROGRAMME HELD UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE UGC-HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, THE UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN FROM 17TH JANUARY 2020 TO 6TH FEBRUARY 2020.

 

  • COMPLETED THE UGC SPONSORED REFRESHER COURSE (ONLINE) IN COMMERCE AND MANAGEMENT FROM 16.09.20 TO 29.09.20, HELD AT HRDC, RANCHI UNIVERSITY, RANCHI. 

 

  • COMPLETED TWO WEEK ONLINE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON "LEARNING ADVANCED E-TOOLS FOR MOOCS DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH" FROM SEPTEMBER 1 - SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 HELD AT THE TEACHING LEARNING CENTRE, RAMANUJAN COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI AND MOTILAL NEHRU COLLEGE (E),  UNIVERSITY OF DELHI (HELD UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND PANDIT MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA NATIONAL MISSION ON TEACHERS AND TEACHING)

 

  • COMPLETED ONLINE TWO -WEEK REFRESHER COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ON THE THEME “NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES” FROM 29 JUNE -13 JULY, 2021 UNDER THE AEGIS OF MINISTRY OF EDUCATION PANDIT MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA NATIONAL MISSION ON TEACHERS AND TEACHING IN COLLABORATION WITH OPEN TECHNOLOGY FORUM (OTF) AND ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES (AFROST).

 

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

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