Author: Debasis Patnaik

Aswini Kumar Mishra is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani-K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa (India). His current areas of research include applied development economics, industrial organization, behavioral economics, and financial economics. His publications have appeared in many international journals. Vairam Arunachalam is Director and Pricewaterhouse Coopers/ Joseph A. Silvoso Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. School of Business, University of Missouri (USA). His research and teaching interests are in the areas of fraud examination, forensic accounting and information systems. Debasis Patnaik is Associate Professor of the Department of Economics at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani-K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa (India). His current research interests include productivity economics, dispersal economics, agricultural economics, traditional finance, behavioral finance, environmental economics, regional studies, philosophy, policy science, artificial intelligence and social science.