Faculty

I have completed a Ph.D. with two postgraduate degrees, one in Finance and another in Economics with Econometrics and Actuarial Economics: Theory and Practice as elective papers. I have completed one “Postdoctoral Research Fellowship” sponsored by the University Grants Commission of India (UGC India) in Economics. My area of study in the Ph.D. and the Postdoctoral level was in the field of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization. I mainly concentrated on the strategic interactions among the small traders, large traders, and small farmers. I have used the theory of games and industrial organization as theoretical methodology and Econometrics for empirical analysis. My research interest lies in the fields of Industrial Organization, Vertical Restraints, Competition Policy, Applied Fuzzy Mathematics, Economic Theory, Decision Theory, Computational Economics and Game Theory, etc. I worked in the interdisciplinary field, especially in the field of “Network Science”. I prefer to do theoretical research. Understanding the changing economic theories is my area of interest. For the last a few years I have been doing research in “New Nonlinear Pricing strategy”, identification of the model of vertical restraints in Indian Agriculture etc. I got international Publications. At present I have completed research in two important topics one “on the measurement of the cartel in auction markets” and “on Indivisibility of labour”. I taught Mathematical Economics, Economic Growth Theories and Dynamic Economic Theories, Probability Theory and Applications,Real Analysis and its application,Operations Research, Microeconomics, Quantitative Techniques for the last five years. Mainly I prefer to teach mathematically. Before taking formal lecture I start with the methodology to understand economic theory, for example, optimization (static and dynamic), dynamic programming, real analysis, etc. Some topics require some special methodology, to start teaching those theories it is required to teach methods first. For example, to teach firm behaviour we need to know, optimization technique. Therefore, I would start teaching first the theory of optimization. Thereafter to have a solution or optima we need to know another technique called real analysis say the concepts of continuity, compactness etc. Then I would start teaching the theory of firm behaviour. At the end applications of these theories I would be showing through practical cases. Therefore, my teaching plan consists of three important components, viz. methodology-theory-application.To teach we need to use different books, research articles, etc. It would be difficult for the students who have started studying the subject for the first time straight from the research articles, books etc. It is true that from my observation in recent times that the reading habits of the students have reduced. Therefore, referring to books, research articles might not be a suitable method of teaching pedagogy. Therefore, what I was doing for the last a few years and would be doing is that, I prepare study materials for the students in simple language with assignments, problems and solutions. Students would start learning from my lecture, then my study materials and then the references. It is my experience that using these methods not only increases the understanding of the students, but also the students’ interest in reading.Lastly,a presentation on a particular topic or a case study on a given issue is also helpful.