Autor: Sugata Marjit

Rajat Acharyya is a Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, and currently teaches Microeconomic Theory and International Economics. He was a student of Prof. Kalyan K. Sanyal at Calcutta University from 1987 to 1989. He completed his Ph.D. at Jadavpur University and subsequently held a Ford Foundation Fellowship at the University of Rochester, USA (1997-1998). He was honoured with the EXIM Bank International Trade Research Award in 1997 and the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal Award in 2006. Prof. Acharyya was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (2008 – 2010) and is the Editor of Trade and Development Review (www.tdrju.net ). Sugata Marjit is the Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and Chairman of the West Bengal State Council of Higher Education. His research interests include International Economics, Industrial Organization, Development Economics, Macroeconomics and Public Economics. He has held professorial positions e.g. at the Indian Statistical Institute, Jawaharlal Nehru University, at the Universities of Bonn, Cornell, Penn State, Rochester, Erasmus, Copenhagen, Queensland and at the City University of Hong Kong. He received the Mahalanobis Medal from the Indian Econometric Society in 2002 and the VKRV Rao National Prize for young Social Scientists in 2003. He serves on the editorial boards of various national and international journals and is the Editor of The South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance.