CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Bhaswar Moitra Citizenship: Indian Date of Birth: 25 June 1955 Sex: Male Marital Status: Married Current

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name : Bhaswar Moitra

Citizenship: Indian

Date of Birth : 25 June 1955

Sex : Male

Marital status : Married

Current Position: P rofessor, Economics Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

Contact Information: Address: Economics Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700032, INDIA Telephone: 91-33-2414-6328 (Office), 91-33-2472-9608 (Home), 91-98314 14355 (Mobile) e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Academic Qualifications : Ph. D. (Economics), Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA, 1987 M.A. (Economics), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1980 B.A. (Economics), Presidency College, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India. 1975. . Academic Experience: Professor, Economics Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032. India. October 2005 - Reader, Economics Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. February 1998 - September 2005 Senior Lecturer in Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. April 1996 - February 1998. Lecturer in Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. April 1991- March 1996 Research Associate, Centre for Economic Studies, Presidency College, Calcutta, India. November 1989 - March 1991. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Austin College, Sherman, Texas, USA. 1988-89. Lecturer in Economics, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA, 1987-88. Instructor, Economics Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA. Spring 1984 - Spring 1986.

Other Appointments: Visiting Professor, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1-20 march, 2013 Visiting Professor, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1-20 march, 2012 Visiting Scholar, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1-20 march, 2011 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. Trinity Term, 2007. (QEH Extraordinary Funding.)

Research Interests:

Broad Areas : Game Theory and Information Theory, Contract Theory, Theory of Institutions, theoretical and primary survey based empirical Development Economics including the study of institutions, Industrial Organization. Current Focus : Agrarian change and agrarian markets in developing countries, technology adoption in agriculture, informal legal institutions. Microfinance. Agrarian Institutions. Informal credit and network analysis. Quality choice under asymmetric information. Social networks in informal credit markets.

Research Guidance

Ph. D. 1. Smita Adhikari: Aspects of the Theory of International Debt. Jadavpur University, 1997. 2. Pranab Kumar Das: An Inquiry into Allocation of Credit between Fixed Capital and Working Capital. Jadavpur University, 2003. 3. Sandip Mitra: Agricultural Price Formation: A Study of Selected Potato Markets in West Bengal. Jadavpur University, 2005 4. Debasis Neogi. Meeting the Challenges of the European Union: The Economics and Politics of Indo-EU Trade. Jadavpur University, 2006. 5. Deepa Ghosh: Aspects of the Theory of Quality Choice under Asymmetric Information, 2010. 6. Saswatee Mukherjee: Essays on Competition and Microfinanace: Theory and Empirics. 2013.

M. Phil.

1. Sanghita Bhattacharjee. Rajhati: agricultural practices in a small village of Medinipur, West Bengal. Jadavpur University, 1998. 2. Prosenjit Mukherjee. A Study of Reverse Tenancy in Burdwan and Murshidabad Districts. Jadavpur University, 2002.

Registered Doctoral Students:

Jayeeta Deshmukh: Three Essays on Informal Credit Institutions in the Garment Industry, Kolkata.

Publications:

Papers in Books and Journals

1. Fiscal Policy with Sectoral Differences in Unemployment Regimes and Fix-Flex Prices , in Andrew H. Chen. (ed.) RESEARCH IN FINANCE, (JAI Press), 1992. (with Suman Majumdar). 2. Recent Advances in Oligopoly Theory: Explaining Collusion , ARTHABEEKSHAN, 1993. (Keynote Address: Bengal Economic Association, Annual Meeting, March, 1993). 3. On Keynesian Unemployment in a Fix-Flex Price Model of a Small Open Economy with Two Variable Inputs, in ECONOMIC THEORY, TRADE AND QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS : Essays in Honour of Prof. P.N. Roy, edited by A. Banerjee and B. Chatterjee, Calcutta University Press, 1996. 4. Resolving the Credibility Problem of an Honest Government (with S, Marjit, Y-K Ng, U. Broll) in Review of Development Economics , December 1999. 5. Financial Instability, Economic Crises and National Security: Lessons from South East and East Asia, in SOUTHEAST ASIA, Security in the Current Millennium, edited by Suchita Ghosh and Rabindra Sen. Allied Publishers, Calcutta, 2000. (With Ajitava Raychaudhuri and Biswajit Chatterjee). 6. Private Lending to Sovereign Debtors, in CONTEMPORARY MACROECONOMICS, essays in honour of M.K. Rakshit, edited by Amitava Bose, Debraj Ray and Abhirup Sarkar. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001. 7. Are Listed Indian Firms Finance Constrained: A study of the evidence for 1991-92 to 1997-98 (With Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Pranab Kumar Das) in Economic and Political Weekly , 22 February 2002. 8. Does Firm Size Matter in an Imperfect Capital Market? A Study for the Indian Firms (with Pranab Kumar Das), in TRADE, FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT, edited by Biswajit Chatterjee and Ajitava Raychaudhuri. Deep and Deep Publishers, New Delhi, 2004. 9. Agricultural Transformation in West Bengal 1960-61 to 1999-2000: The Role of private Investment in Irrigation, in WEST BENGAL EONOMY, Some Contemporary Issues, edited by Ajitava Raychaydhuri and Tuhin Kumar Das. Allied Publishers and DSA Centre, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, New Delhi, 2005. 10. Monopolistic Choice of Product Specifications when Higher End Product Specifications Provide Imperfect Signals of the Performance of the Low End Product , in Keio Economic Studies, volume XLVIII, 2012. (with Deepa Ghosh)

Books and Reports

1. A Study on the Replicability of Block Based Approach to Poverty Alleviation: Budwan and Manbazar II Blocks of Purulia District . Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and International Labour Organisation, New Delhi, 1995. (With Amiya Bagchi, Biswajit Chatterjee and Sujit Chattopadhyay). 2. Issues in Development Economics. Co-edited with Gautam Gupta and Manas Ranjan Gupta. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2000. 3. Effect of Globalization on Industry and Environment. Co-edited with Rajat Acharyya. New Delhi: Lancer’s Books, 2001. 4. "Groundwater Markets in West Bengal, India: Emergence, Evolution and Market Structure" [URL: http://www.saneinetwork.net/pdf/SANEI_V/Groundwater%20Markets%20in%20 West%20Bengal,%20India-%20Kolkatta.pdf 5. Report on Socio-economic Survey of Salanpur Block of Barddhaman District. Co- authored with Ajitava Raychaudhuri. Repoert Prepared for WBIDC, Governement of West Bengal. November 2008. 6. Report on Socio-economic Survey of Jamuria Block of Barddhaman District. Co- authored with Ajitava Raychaudhuri. Repoert Prepared for WBIDC, Governement of West Bengal. January 2009.

Work in Progress 1. Technology Adoption in open field agriculture when land holdings are small and fragmented. (Final draft under preparation) 2. Private Investment in Groundwater Irrigation: Do Public Institutions Matter? (Final draft under preparation). With Pranab Kumar Das. 2007. 3. On Product Differentiation when Technical Product Specifications Provide Noisy Signals of the Quality of Performance. With Deepa Ghosh. May 2009. 4. Increased Competition and Choice of Quality in an Oligopolistic Framework 5. Competition and the Choice of Quality. With Deepa Ghosh. February 2009. Under revision. 6. Collusive Contracts in Groundwater Markets. 7. Book on Agrarian change, technology adoption and the role of groundwater markets in West Bengal, India. (Under preparation).

Conference and Seminar Presentations (selected):

1. Sovereign Debt Cycles. World Congress of the Econometric Society, Tokyo, 1995. (With Smita Adhikari ).

2. Technology Adoption in open field agriculture when land holdings are small and fragmented. University of Durham, May 2013; University of Nottingham, June 2007. JNU (Revised version), February 2011.

3. Do waterlords exist? University of East Anglia, June 2007.

4. Impact of Information Sharing in a Micro credit market with growing population. 6th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, on 16-18 December, 2010. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

5. Presented a paper titled “Impact of Information Sharing in a Micro credit market with growing population” at the 13 th Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy, organized by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, on 25-26 February, 2011. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

6. Lender’s Risk Hypothesis in a multi-period model. CESP Young Scholars’ Seminar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 12-13 March, 2012. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

7. Lender’s Risk Hypothesis in a multi-period model. 22 nd Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on 3-4 January, 2013. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

8. Presented a paper titled “Sequential Group lending with and without Group liability. 33rd. Annual Conference, organized by Bengal Economic Association, Kolkata, 23-24 February, 2013. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

9. Trade credit network in the input market in the readymade garment industry of Metiabruz, Kolkata, international Workshop on Social Networks, IIT, Jodhpur, 25-28th October, 2013. (With Jayeeta Deshmukh).

10. Sequential Group Lending with and without Joint-Liability: Grameen I versus Grameen II. 9th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, on 19-21 December, 2013. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

11. Effects of Competition on default rates in a Microcredit market: an empirical analysis. Winter School 2013, organized by Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, from 16-18 December, 2013. Two-day Seminar on Rural Resource, Credit and Livelihood: The Question of Inclusion, Rabindra Bharati University-NABARD, Kolkata, on 27-28 February, 2014. (With Saswatee Mukherjee). 12. Trade credit guarantee networks in the input market in the readymade garment industry of Metiabruz, Kolkata, Five- day workshop organized by IGC-ISI Delhi Unit on 12-16th July, 2014. (With Jayeeta Deshmukh).

13. Presented a paper titled “Lender’s Risk Hypothesis in a multi-period model” at the 22 nd Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on 3-4 January, 2013. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

14. Presented a paper titled “Lender’s Risk Hypothesis in a multi-period model” at the CESP Young Scholars’ Seminar, organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 12-13 March, 2012. (With Saswatee Mukherjee).

15. Trade credit guarantee networks in the input market in the readymade garment industry of Metiabruz, Kolkata, Five- day workshop organized by IGC-ISI Delhi Unit on 12-16th July, 014. (With Jayeeta Deshmukh).

Projects and Consultancy:

1. A Study of the Mango Trade in Malda and Murshidabad Districts of West Bengal, India. D.S.A. Project, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 1992. 2. Consultant for the ILO / DANIDA Sponsored evaluation study on Replicability and sustainable Study of the SPWP Scheme in Burdwan Block of Purulia District, West Bengal, India. January - June 1994. 3. Joint Director, ACRPP Benchmark Survey, Kashipur Block, Purulia District, Indian Planning Commission and Purulia Zilla Parishad, 1994 -95 4. Consultant to the Project: Institutionalizing the Agro-Climatic Regional Planning Approach , Administrative Training Institute, Government of West Bengal, May 1995. 5. Consultant, Project on Farm Productivity in West Bengal, Conducted by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee funded by Macarthur Foundation. January 1997- 6. Principal Investigator. Mechanization in Agriculture; A study of Birbhum District, West Bengal. 1999-2001. DSA Project, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Funded by University Grants Council, Govt. of India. 7. Principal Investigator. Mechanization in Agriculture; Barddhaman, Nadia, Hugli, 24 Parganas(N &S) Districts, West Bengal. 2001-2002. 8. Principal Investigator. Groundwater Markets in West Bengal, India: Emergence, Evolution and Market Structure. 2003-04. Funded by the South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI) under its SANEI V Programme. 9. Principal Investigator. Collusion in Groundwater Markets in West Bengal, India: 2005. ASIHSS Programme Project, Economics Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Funded by University Grants Council, Govt. of India. 10. Principal Investigator. Socio Economic Survey of Salanpur and Jamuria Blocks of Barddhaman District, West Bengal India. 2008-09. West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. Government of West Bengal, India.

July 2014