Debasis Rooj is an Associate Professor of Economics at the FLAME University. Before joining FLAME, he was an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, Ranchi, India. He has over 15 years of teaching experience in the US and India. Debasis teaches undergraduate and post-graduate courses in macroeconomics and financial economics. He has previously taught courses in business mathematics, econometrics, and financial econometrics. Dr. Rooj extensively imbibes real-life examples and data analysis in his teaching.
Dr. Rooj’s current research includes exploring the micro-macro linkages using household-level data. He has published in several reputed journals, including World Development, Economic Analysis and Policy, Economics Letters, Spatial Economic Analysis, Review of Economics of the Household, and Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
He has also provided research support for the Economic Survey of Jharkhand 2015-16 and 2018-19, Government of Jharkhand. He was also a part of a Government of Jharkhand sponsored evaluation program on creating awareness about protecting the environment and biodiversity.
His Ph.D. dissertation at Northern Illinois University, USA, explored the simultaneous linkages between the macroeconomy and financial market using a production-based DSGE model with long-run stochastic shocks. His paper titled Asset Pricing Implications in a Production Economy with an Investment-Specific Technology Shock won second prize at the Ph.D. Students’ Thesis Competition organized by the Illinois Economic Association, Illinois in 2010. He also received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Economics, NIU.
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