PARTHA CHATTERJEE
Professor and Head
Department of Economics
Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
Partha Chatterjee is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR.
A Ph.D. in Economics from University of Minnesota USA, Professor Chatterjee’s research interests are broadly in macroeconomics, international economics, and issues related to emerging economies.He is also interested in issues of higher education, particularly in India.
Recent Activities
REPORT ON HOW HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS MAKE HIGHER EDUCATION CHOICES
2021 Student Quest Report on how high school students choose college, courses, city, country and who influences those choices, where they get their information from. Based on survey responses from over 6000 high school students in more than 2000 schools in India and rest of South Asia. This was done in collaboration with IC3.
You can access the report here: 2021 IC3 Student Quest Report
Media Coverage: NDTV, etc.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Understanding productivity at plant level using data from manufacturing sector in India (with Shweta Jain)
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Evolution of the distribution of plant level productivity. #prodcutivity #innovation #imitation #entry #exit #skill #india
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Did Economic Reforms Affect Manufacturing Productivity in India? #prodcutivity #policy #economicliberalization #reforms #india
Covid: The Indian Economy, particularly manufacturing
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Lives and Livelihoods: An Exit Strategy from Lockdown For India (with Soma Dey and Shweta Jain), 30 May, 2020. EPW, Special Article, Vol. 55, Issue No. 22. #covid #policy #wfh #nightlight #india
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Impact of COVID -19 on Manufacturing Industries in India: Networks and Trade Dependence, with Shweta Jain, in The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World. Economic and Social Policy Perspectives, Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar, and Soumyen Sikdar (eds), Routledge, India, Forthcoming, September 2021. #covid #india #manufacturing #supplychain #disruption
Federalism and optimal (indirect) tax design
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Optimal Taxation in a Federation and GST in India (with Trishita Ray Barman) #optimaltaxation #GST #india #federalism
Frictions in the Indian Economy
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Monetary Business Cycle Accounting Analysis of Indian (with Kshitiz Mishra), Forthcoming, Journal of Quantitative Economics. #frictions #india #bca
Research
My research interests are broadly in macroeconomics, international economics and issues related to emerging economies.
Posts
& Op-Eds
I write on a variety of issues related to the Indian and global economy, and, also on higher education in India.
