Sugata Ghosh

Academic Qualifications

BSc (Economics), 1985, Presidency College, Calcutta, India. First class.

MSc (Economics), 1987, University of Calcutta, India. First class.

MPhil (Economics), 1989, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

MPhil (Economics), 1990, University of Cambridge, UK.

PhD (Economics), 1994, University of Cambridge, UK.

Research Interests

Growth Theory and Empirics, Macro Theory and Policy, Applied Micro Theory and Development Economics.

Publications (since 2001)

· On the Heterogeneous Impact of Public Capital and Current Spending on Growth across Nations (with Andros Gregoriou), Economics Letters (forthcoming, 2009).

· Heterogeneous Time-Varying Transaction Costs and Asset Pricing in International Equity Markets (with Andros Gregoriou and Christos Ioannidis), Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (forthcoming, 2009).

· The Impact of Government Expenditure on Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Heterogeneous Panel (with Andros Gregoriou), Bulletin of Economic Research (2009), Vol. 61 (1), pp. 95-102.

· The Composition of Government Spending and Growth: Is Current or Capital Spending Better? (with Andros Gregoriou), Oxford Economic Papers (2008), Vol. 60 (3), pp. 484-516.

· The Impact of Simple Fiscal Rules in Growth Models with Public Goods and Congestion (with Charles Nolan), The Manchester School (2007), Vol. 75 (5), pp. 634-651.

· Fiscal Policy, Long-Run Growth and Welfare in a Stock-Flow Model of Public Goods (with Udayan Roy), Canadian Journal of Economics (2004),Vol. 37 (3), pp. 742-756.

· Endogenous Growth, Welfare and Budgetary Regimes (with Iannis Mourmouras), Journal of Macroeconomics (2004), Vol. 26 (4),pp. 623-635.

· Debt, Growth and Budgetary Regimes (with Iannis Mourmouras), Bulletin of Economic Research (2004), Vol. 56 (3), pp. 241-250.

· The Effect of Inequality on Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Indian States (with Sarmistha Pal), Review of Development Economics (2004), Vol. 8 (1), pp. 166-179.

· On Public Investment, the Real Exchange Rate and Growth: Some Empirical Evidence from the UK and the USA (with Iannis Mourmouras, Sarmistha Pal and Ivan Paya), The Manchester School (2003), Vol. 71 (3), pp. 242-264.

· Optimal Growth with Public Capital and Public Services (with Udayan Roy), Economics of Planning (2002), Vol. 35 (3), pp. 271-292.

· On Public Investment, Long-Run Growth and the Real Exchange Rate (with Iannis Mourmouras), Oxford Economic Papers (2002), Vol. 54 (1), pp. 72-90.

· Endogenous Inflationary Finance and Long-Run Growth (with Iannis Mourmouras), Journal of Economic Studies (2001), Vol. 28 (1), pp. 43-54.

Papers under Review/Research in Progress

· ‘Fiscal Policy, Congestion, and the Dual Nature of Public Goods’ (with Santanu Chatterjee).

· ‘The Elite and the Marginalised: An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States’ (with Sarmistha Pal).

· ‘Is Democracy Beneficial for Growth in Countries with Low Ethnic Diversity?’ (with Andros Gregoriou).

· ‘The Composition of Government Spending and Growth: The Role of Corruption’ (with Andros Gregoriou).

· ‘Bureaucratic Corruption with Motivated Officials’ (with Jaideep Roy).

· ‘Awareness Campaigns, Retailer Behaviour, and the Incidence of Child Labour’ (with Jaideep Roy).

· ‘Awareness Campaigns and the Household Economics of Child Labour’ (with Jaideep Roy and Prabal Roy Chowdhury).

· ‘Bureaucratic Corruption, Efficiency, and Economic Growth’ (with M. Emranul Haque).

· ‘Corruption in Public Expenditures, Inflation, and Growth’ (with Kyriakos Neanidis).

· ‘Growth and the Public Sector: Is Size or Composition of Government Spending More Important in OECD Countries?’ (with Andros Gregoriou).

· ‘A Stock-Flow Model of Public Expenditures, Environment and Economic Growth’ (with Manash Ranjan Gupta and Trishita Ray Barman).

Research Awards

Leverhulme Fellowship (7/RFG/2001/0464) to conduct research on ‘Fiscal Policies, Endogenous Growth and Open Economies’ (1 August 2001 – 31 May 2003).

Other Academic Activities

· Refereeing of papers for Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, The Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,Journal of Macroeconomics, The Manchester School,Bulletin of Economic Research, and Metroeconomica.

· Regular participation in major international conferences including Royal Economic Society Conference (UK), European Economic Association Meetings, Econometric Society Meetings (European, North American, South Asian), Allied Social Science Meetings (USA).