Welcome!
The Department of Economic Sciences has 14 permanent faculty members with research and teaching interests that covers a broad range of fields. Apart from having strength in traditional areas like microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics; the department has expertise in agricultural economics, Bayesian econometrics, behavioral economics, development economics, efficiency and productivity analysis, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics, industrial economics, international trade, labor economics, law and economics, optimization theory, political economy and public policy.
The department primarily offers three degrees in economics: 4 year B.S., 1 year M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics. Admission for the 38 seats (per year) in the B.S. program is through the advanced joint entrance examination (JEE). B.S. students who satisfy certain eligibility criterion can opt for a 1 year M.S. program in Economics. There is also a provision for dual degree for undergraduate students of IITK. The entry to the Ph.D. program is through a written test and a viva exam conducted once at the beginning of each academic year.
The department's administrative office is located in Room 622 of the Faculty Building, IITK academic area.
Latest News
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List of shortlisted candidates for Written test/Interview for PhD_Economic Sciences
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Debayan Pakrashi (IIT Kanpur), Sarani Saha (IIT Kanpur), Chitwan Lalji (IIM Kozhikode) and Surya N. Maiti (IIT Kanpur) (2019-20, PI) “Knowledge is Power: A Scoping Study on Women’s Safety” funded by the International Growth Centre India (Bihar), £20,000.
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Debayan Paakrashi (IIT Kanpur), Asadul Islam (Monash University) and Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University), (2019-20, Co-PI) “Addressing Financial Inclusion in Rural India: The Role of Information and Peer Pressure,” funded by the International Growth Centre India (Bihar), £20,000.
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Society for Economic Research in India (SERI) Annual Conference (2019) is hosted by the Department of Economic Sciences, IIT Kanpur. Please see the scheduled program for details.
Events/Seminar Corner
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Title: Distortion in Credit Availability in India’s Lead Bank Scheme
Speaker: Samarth Gupta, NCAER
Date: October 21st, 2019; Time: 5:30 am – 6:30 pm; Venue: FB 620 -
Title: Import Competition and Contract Labor: The Trade and Informality Debate Revisited
Speaker: Vidhya Soundarajan, IIM Bangalore
Date: October 18th, 2019; Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm; Venue: FB 620 -
Title: A Statistical Machine Learning Approach to Yield Curve Forecasting
Speaker: Saurish Das, Chennai Mathematical Institute
Date: October 14th, 2019; Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm; Venue: FB 620 -
Title: Asymmetric Business Cycles in Segmented Labour Markets
Speaker: Srinivasan Murali, IIM Bangalore
Date: September 23rd, 2019; Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am; Venue: FB 620 -
Title: Refugee Crisis: The Economic Impacts of Humanitarian Assistance
Speaker: Anubhab Gupta, UC Davis
Date: September 16th, 2019; Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 noon; Venue: FB 620
Recent Publications
- Islam, A. and Pakrashi, D. (2020), Microcredit Program Participation and Labour Supply Behaviour of Rural Households, Journal of Development Studies, (Accepted)
- Fafchamps, M., Islam, A., Malek, M. A., and Pakrashi, D. (2020), Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment, Journal of Development Economics,(Accepted)
- Kesarwani, P. and Dutta, J. (2019), Charnes-Cooper Scalarization and Convex Vector Optimization, Optimization Letters, DOI: 10.1007/s11590-019-01502-0
- Shukhal, P.A., Dutta, J., and Kesarwani. P. (2019), On a Practical Notion of Geoffrion Proper Optimality in Multicriteria Optimization, Optimization, DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2019.1613403
- Nirola, N. and Sahu, S. (2019), The Interactive Impact of Government Size and Quality of Institutions on Economic Growth – Evidence from the States of India, Heliyon, 5(3), Article No 1352.