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
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[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.