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RONGILI BISWAS Associate Professor of Economics Maulana Azad College, Kolkata India and Associate Researcher in Economics (Honorary) Department of Public Policy and Public Choice (POLIS) University of Eastern Piedmont Italy Personal Details 19/7 Naktala Lane Kolkata-700 047 ADDRESS India FATHER’S Hemango Biswas NAME MOTHER’S NAME Ranu Biswas TELEPHONE Phone : 00919903092249 [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] Associate Professor of Economics CURRENT Maulana Azad College POSITION Kolkata India PLACE OF Calcutta, India BIRTH NATIONALITY Indian 1 Areas of Research Interest Public Economics and Political Economy Jurisdiction formation and wealth stratification Lobbying within a federal structure and resource distribution Fiscal federalism, politics of democracy, politics of redistribution Tax evasion Political bargaining Law and economics Classical political economy/economic history Rural Poverty and Development Economics Trade openness and poverty at the sub-national level in India Rural poverty alleviation programmes: implications for India Education Ph. D (Economics), Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India December, 2003. M.Phil.(Economics), Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 1993. M.A. (Economics), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 1990. Specialization: Econometrics and International Economics. B.A. (Economics), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 1988. Publications Refereed Journals The segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdictions with a welfarist central government (with Nicolas Gravel, Rémy Oddou), Social Choice and Welfare (Wiley-Blackwell) vol. 41(2), 293-319, 2013. Tax Evasion and Self-Protection in a Model with Gatekeepers (with Carla Marchese and Fabio Privileggi), Journal of Economics (Springer), vol. 110, 125- 140, 2013. 2 Fiscal Federalism, State Lobbying and Discretionary Finance: Evidence from India (with Sugata Marjit and Velayoudom Marimotou), Economics and Politics (Wiley-Blackwell), vol. 22(1), 68-91, 2010. Distributive Manipulations and Political Stability: A Theoretical Analysis, co- authored by Sugata Marjit, International Review of Economics and Finance, (Elsevier),vol.17(4), 618-628, 2008. Political Lobbying and Fiscal Federalism: Case of Industrial Licenses and Letters of Intent, co-authored by Sugata Marjit, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XXXV11, No. 8, 716-725, February-March, 2002. IRDP, Poverty Alleviation and Development: A Comparative Study of West Bengal, India, co-authored by Ajitava Raychaudhuri, Journal of Rural Development, vol.15, No.3, 283-306, July-September, 1998. Inter-jurisdictional Migration and the Size of Government (with Michele G. Giuranno) sent for publication. Book Chapters Political Lobbying and Discretionary Finance in India: An Aspect of Regional Political Influence in a Representative Democracy, co-authored by Sugata Marjit, in the book Development, Displacement and Disparity: India in the Last Quarter of the Century edited by Sugata Marjit and Nirmala Banerjee, Orient Longman Limited, Delhi, 2005. Other Publications (occasional/working papers) ‘The Prostitution Debate’ in the book The Other Universe: An Anthology of Women's Studies, edited by Aparna Bandyopadhyay and Krishna Dasgupta, Brabourne College, Kolkata, 2015. 3 MPRA, Munich Personal RePec Archive, Inter-jurisdictional migration and the size of government (with Michele M. Giuranno), October 29,2012. POLIS Working Paper No. 158, Tax Evasion in a Principal-Agent Model with Self-Protection, 2009 (with Carla Marchese and Fabio Privileggi). POLIS Working Paper No.21, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice, The segregative properties of endogenous jurisdictions formation with a welfarist central government, 2009 (with Nicolas Gravel and Remy Oddou). Centre de Sciences Humaines (N. Delhi) Occasional Paper, Fiscal Federalism, State Lobbying and Discretionary Finance in India, publication of the French Research Institutes in India, 2008 (with Sugata Marjit and Velayoudom Marimoutou). Editor and writer of introduction to the book Women’s Education and Politics of Gender, Bethune College, Basumati Corporation Limited, 2004 (co-authors: Jashodhara Bagchi and Uttara Chakraborty). Conference/seminar Papers Trade Openness, Poverty and Inequality in India: Evidence at the sub-national level, Conference on ‘Indian Economy in the era of Financial Globalization’, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, 28-29 September, 2006. Human Rights Violation in West Bengal: Development and the Consensus Against Justice, Eastern India Social Science Conference on ‘Tradition, Development and Justice’, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Eastern Regional Centre and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, June 23-25,2003. What Bars Technology Adoption: A Comparative Study of Two villages in West Bengal, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, November, 1998. 4 Papers at Conferences/seminars/workshops TAOYAKA Graduate Program Seminar, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan, 2015. Conference on Resource Conflict, Democracy and Federalism: the South Asian Context, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University, April 24, 2015. Zonal meet (Eastern Region) of Economists/Economic Administrators and Policy Experts for the 14th Finance Commission, Govt. of India at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, May 2, 2013. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, October 10, 2012. Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India, August,2011. University of Reading, UK, May 11, 2011. University of York, UK, June 9, 2011. Courant Centre PEG, Georg August University of Goettingen, Germany, April 2010. Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, May, 2010. IAREP Workshop on The Economic Psychology of Giving, Public Goods and Leadership at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, November 13—14, 2009. University of Reading, UK January 12, 2009. European Workshop in Law, Economics and Collective Decision Making, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy, June 4-5, 2009. University of East Anglia, UK, January 15, 2009. Brunel University, UK, January 21, 2009. POLIS, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy, October 24, 2008. University of Birmingham, UK, November 25, 2008. University of York, UK, November 26, 2008. University of Caen, France, December 8, 2008. Conference Journées d'Economie Publique Louis-André Gérard-Varet # 6, Marseille, France, June 14-15, 2007. Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, India, May 24, 2007. First World Meeting of Public Choice Societies hosted by The Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 March - 1April, 2007. Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, September 28-29,2006. European Public Choice Conference in Turku, Finland 20-23 April, 2006. Centre for Research in Economics and Management, Université de Caen, France, January, 2006. Jadavpur University Annual Conference, Calcutta, India, December, 2004. Indian Council of Social Science Research, Eastern Regional Centre and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, June 23-25, 2003. University of Melbourne, Australia, October, 2002. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia September, 2002 Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, August, 2002. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, June, 2002. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, June,2000. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, November, 1998. 5 Professional Profile Employment History 2010 : Associate Professor of Economics, Maulana Azad College, Calcutta, India 2008-2010 : Post-doctoral Researcher, POLIS, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy 2007-2008: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre de Sciences Humaines (Embassy of France), New Delhi, India. 2006: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Caen, France. 2002-2006: Senior Lecturer in Economics, Bethune College, Calcutta, India. 1997-2002: Lecturer, Bidhannagar College, Calcutta, India. Research Positions 2015: Visiting Researcher, TAOYAKA Graduate Program for Creating a Flexible, Enduring, Peaceful Society, Hiroshima University, Japan, 2012: Coordinator, Research Project on Political Economy of British Labour Movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, University Grants Commission, India. 2011: Visiting Researcher, Microeconomic Research Cluster, University of York, UK 2010: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, July. 2009: Visiting Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK, September and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, June. 1994-1997: Researcher, independent project on Credit, Technology Adoption, Tenurial Relations and Marketing in West Bengal Agriculture, Jadavpur University. 1992: Participant Observer, Beneficiary Assessment Project in Sericulture, sponsored by the World Bank, conducted by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. 1991: Research Assistant, Urban Management Programme sponsored by UNDP, UNHCRS and the World Bank, conducted by the University of Birmingham. Research Grant 2012: UGC Minor Resreach Project grant on ‘Nineteenth for Century British Labour Movement’, UGC, India (Rs. 1,30,000). Teaching portfolio Maulana Azad College (2010-) Macroeconomics: Basic Macro Theory, Consumption and Investment Theories,