INTRODUCTION
Professor Gouranga G. Das, an Indian national, who is currently a professor at Hanyang University's Department of Economics and Department of Applied Economics at the Graduate School of Economics, graduated from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India) and obtained a master's degree in economics from the same university and another Masters degree M. Phil in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India). He received his PhD in Economics from Monash University. Melbourne, Australia. He later worked as a Post-doctoral research professor at the University of Florida, USA.
Professor Das specializes on International Trade, Growth and Development economics. He explores issues of growth and development using Applied Theoretical Framework. His main research topics are:
1. Virtual Trade, Growth and technological change
2. Trade, global economic integration, and the spread of technological innovation
3. Human capital formation, skill acquisition and technology adoption
4. The combination of trade, technology and the environment and regulations.
5. Wage Inequality in Labor /market: Role of Production Disruptions, Labor-Labor substitution, and Technological Disruption.
6. Trade and Finance in Trade theory.
His research is focused on economic policy issues regarding Globalization, Trade, Economic development and Growth. In particular, he specializes in the specific aspects of trade, the manifestations of trade, and the internal factors of the differential impacts of trade between countries. His research addresses such issues as technology dissemination, absorption capacities, factors of convergence and lack of convergence, and catch-up issues, skilled-unskilled workforce, ecological science and technology-ecological trade with food security, and the inclusive sustainable development.
His research now extends from the context of previous research to the different types of firms, their origins, and differences in productivity among firms.
Examples: wage differentials of skilled-unskilled workers and trade versus skill; trade and corruption; real estate transactions and development issues; A question of inclusive growth (optional aspect) and sustainability.
To explore the interaction of various economic factors within and across countries, he uses the Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model, the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model as well as theoretical models. He is an active researcher and member of the leading Global Trade Model (Global Trade Analysis Project-GTAP), Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University in Illinois USA, and Center of Policy Studies, Victoria University (previously located at Monash University), Melbourne Australia. Also, he is an Applied theorist. He has been Visiting Professor and Researcher at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA; World Bank, United Nations University-World Institute of Development economics Research (UNU-WIDER), University of Antwerp, Auckland University, New Zealand, University of Antwerp, Belgium, University of Oregon, amongst few others. Also, he visited and particiapted in Harvard Kennedy School's Research Workshop and Education on Cutting Edge of Development for Leading Economic Growth, Innovation for Economic Development. He serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of several International Journals (SCOPUS, ABDC, ESCI, ECONLIT indexed), also referee of professional Journals of repute.
■ RESEARCH PLAN
Methodological Areas: THEORETICAL WORK (General Equilibrium Trade), CGE ANALYSIS (Comparative-Static and Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), using Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Model developed in Purdue University, USA), Applied Economics (development policy analysis).
▪. Substantive and Field Areas: TRADE AND GROWTH (Aspects of trade, technology transfer and growth; Inter-sectoral technology flow; Education and human capital ); TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (Outsourcing and Fragmentation; Issues related to Free Trade Agreements), AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS (Land-use change, Agricultural Biotechnology).
▪. COVID-19 in the Context of Spillover and Trade
▪. Pandemic, Polarization and Wage Inequality: A General Equilibrium Approach
▪. New Trade Model with Finance: An Extension of Neoclassical Framework Model
▪. New Biotechnology and Food-Feed-Fuel: An Exploration into Triple Crisis
▪. North-South Model of Enrichment and Gaps in Technology.
▪. Deglobalization or Disintegration of Production: Trade and Technology under the Swings of Pandemic
■ PUBLICATIONS MAJOR
1. Das, Gouranga G., Akgul, Zeynep, and Badrinarayan, G. (April 2023). " How do Productivity benefits spill over across Firms? Explorations in a Heterogeneous Firm Applied General Equilibrium Trade model," PolitickaEkonomie,ScientificjournalofEconomicTheoryandPolicy.
2. Das, Gouranga, Ranajoy Bhattacharyya, and Sugata Marjit (April 2023). “Contract Farming and Food Insecurity in an Open Competitive Economy: Growth, Distribution, and Government Policy.” JournalofRiskandFinancialManagement,MDPI,Vol:16
3.Das, Gouranga G., EdimonGinting,AimeeHampelandMarkHorridge(May2022).Keybindingconstraints,structuralreform,andgrowthpotentialofAzerbaijanviaeconomicdiversification:Acomputablegeneralequilibriumpolicyimpactanalysis.JournalofEurasianStudies. Pp1—26.
4. Marjit, S., and Das, Gouranga G.(October 2021). The New Ricardian Specific-Factor Model. Journal of Asian Economics
5. Das, Gouranga G., SugataMarjit and MausumiKar(March2020).The Impact of Immigration on Skills, Innovation and Wages: Education Matters more than where People come from, pp. 1-27. Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier.
■ MEMBERSHIP/SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
Member of the AmericanEconomicAssociation,USA.
Member of the EconometricSociety,CowlesFoundation,YaleUniversity,USA.
Member of the Royal Economic Society, UK.
Member of the InternationalAgriculturalTradeResearchConsortium(IATRC),University of Minnesota, USA.www.iatrc.org
■ AWARD (INTERNATIONAL SELECTED)
· Featured in Marquis Who's Who in the World ,2009—2014/15,26th/27thEdition—currentedition, N.Y. USA (entry in page594in26thEdition).
· Award Finalist for the GlobalDevelopmentAwardsCompetitionfor2006,GlobalDevelopmentNetwork,St.Petersburg,Russia.AwardedInternationalMonetaryFund/GlobalDevelopmentNetwork"VisitingFellowshipScholarship"inanopencompetitionduringJanuary2005.
· Inductee in 2017-18Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Who’s Who Publication, NY, USA.
HANYANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD 2011, 2016.
■ OTHER HONORS
· Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow—An international network and Virtual Platform on Labor, Germany, ,(November2022onwards), Honorary Advisor. Infinite-Sum Modeling (Economic Modeling Research Team)
(http://www.infsum.com/en/intro.php) (http://www.infsum.com/en/peopleshow.php?cid=109&id=583)
Professor Gouranga G. Das, an Indian national, who is currently a professor at Hanyang University's Department of Economics and Department of Applied Economics at the Graduate School of Economics, graduated from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India) and obtained a master's degree in economics from the same university and another Masters degree M. Phil in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India). He received his PhD in Economics from Monash University. Melbourne, Australia. He later worked as a Post-doctoral research professor at the University of Florida, USA.
Professor Das specializes on International Trade, Growth and Development economics. He explores issues of growth and development using Applied Theoretical Framework. His main research topics are:
1. Virtual Trade, Growth and technological change
2. Trade, global economic integration, and the spread of technological innovation
3. Human capital formation, skill acquisition and technology adoption
4. The combination of trade, technology and the environment and regulations.
5. Wage Inequality in Labor /market: Role of Production Disruptions, Labor-Labor substitution, and Technological Disruption.
6. Trade and Finance in Trade theory.
His research is focused on economic policy issues regarding Globalization, Trade, Economic development and Growth. In particular, he specializes in the specific aspects of trade, the manifestations of trade, and the internal factors of the differential impacts of trade between countries. His research addresses such issues as technology dissemination, absorption capacities, factors of convergence and lack of convergence, and catch-up issues, skilled-unskilled workforce, ecological science and technology-ecological trade with food security, and the inclusive sustainable development.
His research now extends from the context of previous research to the different types of firms, their origins, and differences in productivity among firms.
Examples: wage differentials of skilled-unskilled workers and trade versus skill; trade and corruption; real estate transactions and development issues; A question of inclusive growth (optional aspect) and sustainability.
To explore the interaction of various economic factors within and across countries, he uses the Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model, the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model as well as theoretical models. He is an active researcher and member of the leading Global Trade Model (Global Trade Analysis Project-GTAP), Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University in Illinois USA, and Center of Policy Studies, Victoria University (previously located at Monash University), Melbourne Australia. Also, he is an Applied theorist. He has been Visiting Professor and Researcher at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA; World Bank, United Nations University-World Institute of Development economics Research (UNU-WIDER), University of Antwerp, Auckland University, New Zealand, University of Antwerp, Belgium, University of Oregon, amongst few others. Also, he visited and particiapted in Harvard Kennedy School's Research Workshop and Education on Cutting Edge of Development for Leading Economic Growth, Innovation for Economic Development. He serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of several International Journals (SCOPUS, ABDC, ESCI, ECONLIT indexed), also referee of professional Journals of repute.
■ RESEARCH PLAN
Methodological Areas: THEORETICAL WORK (General Equilibrium Trade), CGE ANALYSIS (Comparative-Static and Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), using Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Model developed in Purdue University, USA), Applied Economics (development policy analysis).
▪. Substantive and Field Areas: TRADE AND GROWTH (Aspects of trade, technology transfer and growth; Inter-sectoral technology flow; Education and human capital ); TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (Outsourcing and Fragmentation; Issues related to Free Trade Agreements), AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS (Land-use change, Agricultural Biotechnology).
▪. COVID-19 in the Context of Spillover and Trade
▪. Pandemic, Polarization and Wage Inequality: A General Equilibrium Approach
▪. New Trade Model with Finance: An Extension of Neoclassical Framework Model
▪. New Biotechnology and Food-Feed-Fuel: An Exploration into Triple Crisis
▪. North-South Model of Enrichment and Gaps in Technology.
▪. Deglobalization or Disintegration of Production: Trade and Technology under the Swings of Pandemic
■ PUBLICATIONS MAJOR
1. Das, Gouranga G., Akgul, Zeynep, and Badrinarayan, G. (April 2023). " How do Productivity benefits spill over across Firms? Explorations in a Heterogeneous Firm Applied General Equilibrium Trade model," PolitickaEkonomie,ScientificjournalofEconomicTheoryandPolicy.
2. Das, Gouranga, Ranajoy Bhattacharyya, and Sugata Marjit (April 2023). “Contract Farming and Food Insecurity in an Open Competitive Economy: Growth, Distribution, and Government Policy.” JournalofRiskandFinancialManagement,MDPI,Vol:16
3.Das, Gouranga G., EdimonGinting,AimeeHampelandMarkHorridge(May2022).Keybindingconstraints,structuralreform,andgrowthpotentialofAzerbaijanviaeconomicdiversification:Acomputablegeneralequilibriumpolicyimpactanalysis.JournalofEurasianStudies. Pp1—26.
4. Marjit, S., and Das, Gouranga G.(October 2021). The New Ricardian Specific-Factor Model. Journal of Asian Economics
5. Das, Gouranga G., SugataMarjit and MausumiKar(March2020).The Impact of Immigration on Skills, Innovation and Wages: Education Matters more than where People come from, pp. 1-27. Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier.
■ MEMBERSHIP/SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
Member of the AmericanEconomicAssociation,USA.
Member of the EconometricSociety,CowlesFoundation,YaleUniversity,USA.
Member of the Royal Economic Society, UK.
Member of the InternationalAgriculturalTradeResearchConsortium(IATRC),University of Minnesota, USA.www.iatrc.org
■ AWARD (INTERNATIONAL SELECTED)
· Featured in Marquis Who's Who in the World ,2009—2014/15,26th/27thEdition—currentedition, N.Y. USA (entry in page594in26thEdition).
· Award Finalist for the GlobalDevelopmentAwardsCompetitionfor2006,GlobalDevelopmentNetwork,St.Petersburg,Russia.AwardedInternationalMonetaryFund/GlobalDevelopmentNetwork"VisitingFellowshipScholarship"inanopencompetitionduringJanuary2005.
· Inductee in 2017-18Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Who’s Who Publication, NY, USA.
HANYANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD 2011, 2016.
■ OTHER HONORS
· Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow—An international network and Virtual Platform on Labor, Germany, ,(November2022onwards), Honorary Advisor. Infinite-Sum Modeling (Economic Modeling Research Team)
(http://www.infsum.com/en/intro.php) (http://www.infsum.com/en/peopleshow.php?cid=109&id=583)