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Dr Debasis Bandyopadhyay
Senior Lecturer
Department:
Address:Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty:Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 87439
Email: d.bandyopadhyay@auckland.ac.nz






Debasis joined the Department in August 1993 from the University of Minnesota where he completed his PhD in the field of Macroeconomics. Previously he graduated MA in Economterics from University of Florida (1985) after a B.Sc (Hons.) Economics from Presidency College, University of Calcutta (1984). His PhD Dissertation Title was "Distribution of Human Capital, Income Inequality and the Rate of Growth" adjudicated by Professors Timothy J. Kehoe (Adviser), Edward C. Prescott, Richard Rogerson, Mahmood Zaidi (External), and Vernon Ruttan (External).

He won the Walter W. Heller 'Outstanding Teaching Award' for teaching undergraduate macroeconomics at the University of Minnesota. In 1997 he received the Marsden Research Grant in Economics from the Royal Society of New Zealand. His main research interest focuses on the relationship between the distribution of human capital and economic growth. His other research interests include the economic interaction between inflation and economic growth, and implications of interindustry earning differentials on alternative theories of unemployment.
Special Interests:
A new welfare improving scheme for designing social security
Emigration of skilled labour and education policy
Long-run productivity growth in New Zealand
Money supply and economic growth in the absence of a fractional reserve system
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2005 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  BASU, P.,  ‘What Determines the Cross-Country Growth and Inequality Correlation?‘, Canadian Journal of Economic s - Revue Canadienne d Economique, 38, (4), 1272-1297.
2004 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  ‘Why Haven’t Economic Reforms Increased Productivity Growth in New Zealand?‘, New Zealand Economic Papers, 38, 219-240.
2003 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  ‘'On the Characterization of Human Capital Distribution: An Empirical Study‘, of Statistical Planning and Inference, 112, 213-220.
2001 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  ‘Industry Premium: What We Know and What the New Zealand Data Say‘, New Zealand Economic Papers, 35, 53-76.
2001 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  BASU, P.,  ‘Optimal Capital Tax in a Growth Model with Discrete Occupational Choice‘, Australian Economic Papers, 40, 111-132.
Sections in Books
2005 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  ‘Financial Development and Economic Growth: The APEC Experience‘, Chatterjee, M. and Gangopadhyay, P. (eds) Globalisation and Economic Reform, Hampshire, Ashgate Publishing House (in press)
Conference Paper
1997 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  ‘Distribution of Human Capital and Economic Growth‘, 29-62.
1996 BANDYOPADHYAY, D.,  ‘Popularity Contest in Macroeconomics: Some Findings from the Econ-Lit‘, 355-367.