CURRICULUM VITAE Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri Assistant Professor Department of Economics Frostburg State University Frostburg MD 21532 (e-mail: snabarbhaduri@frostburg.edu) Frostburg State University Department of Economics 101 Braddock Road Guild Center Room 131 Frostburg MD 21532 OFFICE ADDRESS PHONE NUMBERS Office: 301-687-3299 EDUCATION - Ph.D., Economics, University of Utah, USA, 2011. - M.A., Economics, University of Mumbai, India, 2004. First Class. - B.A., Economics and Statistics, University of Mumbai, India, 2002. First Class. DISSERTATION TITLE A Structuralist Approach to Analyzing India s Productivity, Employment and Export Performance. WORK EXPERIENCE 1) August 2017- : Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD. 2)August 2015-July 2017: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. 3) August 2014-May 2015: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. 4) September 2013- May 2014: Lecturer, Department of Economics and Political Science, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire. 5) November 2011-August 2013: Postdoctoral Associate, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University. 1
6) 2007-2011: Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Utah. 7) January 2006-April 2006: Research Assistant at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR),Mumbai, India. Carried out research and wrote a draft report for a Reserve Bank of India (RBI)-sponsored project on India s monetary history. 8) September 2005- December 2005: Trainee with ICI Uniqema India Ltd., now a part of Croda Chemicals (India) Pvt. Ltd. Worked on a project which involved a strategic analysis of Uniqema s competitors in the market for specialty chemicals. TEACHING EXPERIENCE (FALL 2006 TO PRESENT) 1) 2017- : Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University Principles of Economics (Macro) (Spring 2018, Fall 2017) Intermediate Macroeconomics (Fall 2017) International Finance (Spring 2018) 2) 2015-17: Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College Introduction to Economics (four times: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 ) History of Economic Thought (Fall 2016) Intermediate Macroeconomics (three times: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015) Economic Development (Fall 2015) 3) 2014-15: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University Intermediate Macroeconomics (twice: Spring 2015, Fall 2014) Economic Principles/Problems (twice: Spring 2015, Fall 2014) 4) 2013-14: Lecturer, Keene State College. Introduction to Macroeconomics (twice: Spring 2014, Fall 2013) History of Economic Thought (Spring 2014) Development Economics (Fall 2013) 5) 2007-2011: Instructor, University of Utah. Principles of Microeconomics (twice: Spring 2008, Fall 2007) Intermediate Microeconomics (seven times: Fall 2008- Fall 2011) 6) 2006-2007: Teaching Assistant, University of Utah. 2
Principles of Microeconomics (twice: Spring 2007, Fall 2006); Principles of Macroeconomics (twice: Spring 2007, Fall 2006). OTHER COURSES OF INTEREST International Trade; Open-economy macroeconomics; Money and Banking; Econometrics; Industrial Organization; Labor Economics ; Probability and Statistical Inference; Quantitative Methods and Mathematics for Economics; The Political Economy of International Relations and Development; Globalization and trade policy; China and India in the World Economy; The Economies of Asia and Latin America. RESEARCH INTERESTS Fields: Macroeconomics; Economic Development and Growth; International Trade and Finance; History of Economic Thought; Political Economy; Money and Banking; Econometrics; Statistics. Research areas of interest: Open economy macroeconomics; Factors driving the reduction of the balance of payments constraint in developing countries; Long-run policy implications of external imbalances in developing countries; Financing of economic development; The importance of sectoral-level dynamics in assessing the efficacy of structural shifts in policy; China and India in the world economy; The political economy of international relations and development; Gender and environmental aspects of development; Multi-dimensional measures of poverty; History of economic thought; Comparative studies of Indian and Latin American writings on the process of economic development; Monetary history and policy; Human rights in developing countries; Education policies. 3
Research Experience Summary: 2006: Research Assistant at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. Carried out research and wrote a draft report for a Reserve Bank of India (RBI)-sponsored project on India s monetary history. 2006-2011: Dissertation research, University of Utah. Explored the productivity, employment and export dynamics of the Indian economy at the disaggregated level (in agriculture and manufacturing) over time. Also analyzed the balance of payments constraint of India, and the factors that have contributed to reducing this constraint in the post-liberalization period. November 2011 to August 2013: Post-doctoral fellow, Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University. Published policy papers that explored the policy implications of dissertation findings. Finished the preliminary draft of a paper which analyzes the sustainability and financial implications of India s trade and current account deficits. Member of a 2012 Task Force initiative at the Boston University Center for Finance, Law and Policy on the role of remittances in post-conflict economies. Submitted a paper that was published in the Task Force Report of the Center in October 2013. ACADEMIC PAPERS (a) PUBLISHED: 1) No Easy Balancing Act: Reducing the Balance of Payments Constraint; Improving Export Competitiveness and Productivity; and Absorbing Surplus Labor: the Indian Experience. Review of Keynesian Economics, 3 (4) (October 2015). 2) "Reserve Bank of India." In The Encyclopedia of Central Banking, edited by Louis-Phillip Rochon and Sergio Rossi. Edward Elgar Ltd. 2015. 3) Inflation. Book chapter with Matías Vernengo, forthcoming in Elgar Companion to Radical Political Economics edited by Malcolm Sawyer and Philip Arestis. 4) Migration, Remittances, Development, and the Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka. In Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development. Pardee Center Task Force Report, October 2013. 5) Service-led growth and the balance of payments constraint in India: An unsustainable strategy. With MatíasVernengo. Challenge 55(5): 79-93 (September/October 2012). 4
6) Free Trade and Inclusive Development: Lessons from the Indian Experience. Pardee Issues in Brief No. 23, April 2012. 7) What Lies Beneath: A Case For Disaggregated Analysis in Evaluating Structural Policy Shifts. International Journal of Political Economy, 40 (1) (Spring 2011). 8) The Science of Growth and the Growth of Science. With Sumit Bhaduri. Current Science, 89 (7), 10 October 2005. (b) ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION: 9) Not Sustainable: India s Trade and Current Account Deficits. Development and Change 2017. (Link to working paper version: http://www.peri.umass.edu Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Working Paper Number 398, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2015). (c) IN PROGRESS: 10) "Services-led growth versus manufacturing: Indian and Chinese development strategies compared." 11) Trade Liberalization and Poverty in India: A Multidimensional Approach. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (NEWSPAPERS/ OP-EDS) 1) India s Growth Model: A Need for Change. Originally published in Spanish as El mito del modelo de la India in Página/12 on 10 September 2012. Also in: (http://nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2012/09/indias-growth-model-need-forchange.html) 2) India s Economic Slowdown: The Marvel of Services-Led Growth? Triple Crisis. 29 June 2012. (http://triplecrisis.com/indias-economic-slowdown-themarvel-of-services-led-growth/) 3) No Magic Wand: Liberalization and Structural Transformation in India. Triple Crisis,17 May 2012. (http://triplecrisis.com/no-magic-wand-liberalization-andstructural-transformation-in-india/) FUTURE RESEARCH Comparative study on the growth trajectories of China and India in the context of the global economy (in progress). 5
Gender wage inequalities in developing countries. The effects of trade liberalization on poverty in India using a multidimensional poverty index. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic development. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - Referee for Structural Change and Economic Dynamics - Referee for the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE) - Referee for the International Review of Applied Economics (IRAE) - Selection Committee Member for the Graduate Summer Fellows Program of the Pardee Center, Boston University, 2012 and 2013. CONFERENCES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 1) "Services-led growth versus manufacturing: Indian and Chinese development strategies compared." American Economic Association Conference, January 2017, Chicago. 2) "Kaldor-Verdoorn in China and India." Eastern Economic Association Conference, February 2015, New York City. 3) Not Sustainable: India s Trade and Current Account Deficits. Eastern Economic Association Conference, May 2013, New York City. 4) Discussant, Sessions on: (a) Development Strategies of EME after the Crisis. ; and (b) Wage-led and Profit-Led Growth. Eastern Economic Association Conference May 2013, New York City. 5) Migration, Remittances, Development and the Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka. Conference on Remittances and Development in Post-Conflict States, Boston University Center for Finance, Law and Policy (8-9 November 2012). 6) Moderator and Panelist, 3-Member Panel: Beyond GDP in Brazil, India and China: Prospects for Long-Run Development. September 2012, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University. 7) Participant, the Pardee Roundtable Discussion on Rethinking the Measurement of Human Development. April 2012, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University. 8) Pioneers of Development and the Enigma of India s Structural Dynamics. Eastern Economic Association Conference, March 2012, Boston. 6
9) No Easy Balancing Act: Reducing the Balance of Payments Constraint; Improving Export Competitiveness and Productivity; and Absorbing Surplus Labor: the Indian Experience. Western Social Sciences Association- Association for Institutional Thought (WSSA-AFIT) Conference, April 2011, Salt Lake City. 10) Service-led growth and the balance of payments constraint in India: An unsustainable strategy. (with Matías Vernengo).Eastern Economic Association Conference, February 2011, New York City. 11) What Lies Beneath: A Case For Disaggregated Analysis in Evaluating Structural Policy Shifts. Eastern Economic Association Conference, February 2010, Philadelphia. LANGUAGES SPOKEN English (fluent); Marathi (functional); Bengali (functional); Hindi (functional); Spanish (functional). REFERENCES 1. Dr. Matías Vernengo Office e-mail: mv012@bucknell.edu; 2. Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher Office e-mail: kpg@bu.edu; 3. Dr. William Ferguson Office e-mail: ferguso1@grinnell.edu 7