About Us

Sugata Marjit is the First Distinguished Professor of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

He was the RBI Professor of Industrial Economics and Director at the Centre Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and First Sukhamay Chakravarty Professor at Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi. He is also a former Vice Chancellor of the Calcutta University.

He held Visiting Professorial positions at the Universities of Bonn, Berlin, Copenhagen, Cornell, Erasmus ( Rotterdam) , Monash, Munich, Konstanz, Paris, Sydney, New South Wales, Queensland, Penn. State, Rochester, Washington, St. Louis , Australian National University etc. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the IMF and Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, USA,  among other places.

He has published more than 150 papers in journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics. Economic Inquiry, Economica , Oxford Economic papers, NATURE Climate Change, PLOS One, Indian Journal of Physics, European Physical Journal,  etc.

Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Springer-Nature have published his books and edited volumes. He edits the South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance (SAGE Pub.)

He received the Mahalanobis Gold Medal of the Indian Econometric Society in 2002, the most coveted award for economists in India and the VKRV Rao National Prize as a young Social Scientist in 2003, among very few to receive both awards. In 2018 he was nominated as the Distinguished (University wide) Visiting Fellow from Asia at the Queen Mary University of London.

Current Areas of Research

·         Political Economy and Informal Credit Market.

·         Wage Fund Theory in Trade Models.

·         Role of Factor Endowment in Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman Model of Monopolistic Competition and Product Diversity

·         Education and Underemployment.

Major Papers in the Last Ten Years

(ABDC A*/A and other High Impact Journals)

1.      Tax Evasion as Tax Deferment: Sham litigation with an informal credit market –(2021, with S. Mishra and S. Mitra) –European Journal of Political Economy ( Forthcoming).

2.      The Impact of Immigration on Skill, Education and Wages: Education matters more than where people come from – (2020, with G. Das and M. Kar) – Journal of Policy Modelling, 42 (3), 557-582.

3.      Unskilled immigration, technical progress, and wages — Role of the household sector (Feb 2020, with Manoj Pant and Sugandha Huria) – Review of International Economics, 28(1), 235-251.

4.      Productivity Enhancing Trade with Local Fragmentation (March 2019, with X. Xu and     L. Yang) – International Review of Economics and Finance, 60, 292-301.\

5.      Does Protectionism harm Unskilled Workers- (2018, with H. Beladi and R. Oladi) –Economics and Politics , 30 (3), 444-450

6.      Reform, Informl Sector and Extortion – (2018, with H. Beladi and B. Mandal) – Economics and Politics, 30 (1) 106-123

7.      Steps to Overcome North South Divide in Research related to Climate Change Policy & Practice (January 2017 with Malgorzata Blicharska, Richard J. Smithers & Others)- Nature Climate Change, 7, 21-27.

8.      International trade and quality of labour (May 2017 with Sarbajit Chaudhuri) - International Review of Economics & Finance, 49, 582–595.

9.      Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Conflict: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India (October 21, 2016, with Surajeet Chakravarty, Miguel A. Fonseca and Sudeep Ghosh) PLOS ONE.

10.  Export Profitability, Competition and Technology (January 2017, with Mousakhi Roy) - International Review of Economics & Finance, 47, 35–45.

11.  International Trade, Migration and Unemployment- (2016, with B. Mandal) , Economics and Politics, 28 (1), 8-22

12.  Competitive General Equilibrium with Finite Change and The Theory of Policy Making- ( with. H. Beladi and A. Chakrabarti), Economics and Politics 28 (1), 1-7

13.  Trade liberalization, technology transfer, and endogenous R&D – (July 2016, with Hong Hwang, and Cheng-Hau Peng) – Oxford Economic Papers, 68(4), 1107- 1119.

14.  Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Cooperation: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment In India – (2015, with S. Chakravarty, M. Fonseca, S. Ghosh) - European Economic Review, Volume 90, November 2016, Pages 265–279.

15.  Strategic Enforcement, Intellectual Property Rights and Contractual Rand D (2015, with Hamid Beladi, Xinoeng Xu and Lei Yang) –Economic Inquiry, April 2016, DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12352.

16.  Endogenous Market Structure, Trade Cost Reduction and Welfare- (2015, with A. Mukherjee) - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 173, 493-511.

17.  A Public Firm in a Model of Spatial Duopoly with Price Discrimination (2014, with Hamid Beladi and Avik Chakrabarti) – Economics Letters, 123 (1) 79-81.

18.  International Oligopoly, Barriers to Outsourcing and Domestic Employment (2014, with Subhayu Bandopadhyay and Lei Yang) – Canadian Journal of Economics, 47(4), 1372-1386.

19.  Cross Border Mergers in Vertically Related Industries (2013, with H. Beladi and A. Chakraborti) – European Economic Review, 59, 97-108.

20.  Privatization and Strategic Mergers across Borders (2013, with H. Beladi and A. Chakraborti)-Review of International Economics 21 (3) 432-446

21.  Skilled-Unskilled wage Inequality and Urban Unemployment (2010, with A. Chakravarty and H. Beladi) – Economic Inquiry, 48(4) 997-1007

22.  Exchange Rate Pass Through - A generalization (2010, with H. Beladi and A. Chakrabarti –Journal of Mathematical Economics, 46(4), 493-504

23.  Sequential spatial competition in vertically related industries with different product varieties (February 2010, with A. Chakrabarti and H. Beladi) – Economics Letters, Vol. 101(2), 112- 114.