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Department of Economics & Finance

The Economics and Finance Department at BITS Pilani – K K Birla Campus offers M.Sc (Hons) Economics as a first degree, Minor in Finance and Ph.D. programme. The diversity of specialisations of the departmental faculty has promoted multi-faceted research at the Department and has brought a certain depth to the courses as well. Along with research, the Department recognizes the growing demand for trained manpower in education, industry, government and other sectors as well as nurturing future researchers and specialists in related fields. The teaching methodology seeks to provide students with a strong theoretical and conceptual foundation and to create a continuous interest and involvement with the real life applications of Economics, Finance and Management. Many of the students go on to do further studies, research and internships in fields related to economics and finance. Economics is of relevance to every individual.

 

Preferred Research Areas:

  • Agricultural Economics & Resource Management
  • Business & Corporate Economics
  • Business & Finance
  • Business & Management
  • Corporate Finance
  • Economic Development
  • Economic Geography
  • Environmental Economics & Politics
  • Finance & Investments Special Topics
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Financial Economics
  • Financial Engineering
  • Industrial Organization
  • International Economics & Trade
  • International Finance
  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Money & Banking
  • Personal Finance
  • Public Policy Economics & Finance
  • Regional Economics
  • Risk Management

  • The Vision
  • The Mission

  • The department is envisioned to achieve excellence in teaching and research in the fields of economics, finance and management.

  • 1. “To provide high quality education and training to undergraduate students in the field of economics, management, finance and entrepreneurship.” 2. “To produce graduates who are well prepared for a wide range of jobs in industry, academia and research organizations.” 3. “To produce internationally recognized publishable research which adheres to the highest standards of professional rigor and ethics.” 4. “To disseminate knowledge and information by organizing Seminars/workshops/short term courses to develop professionalism.” 5. “To interact with the industry, educational and research organizations, and alumni in the fields of curriculum development, training and research to meet the demand of quality technical human resource at national & international level.”

Programmes Offered

Research

The Department of Economics and Finance gives a platform to pursue research on topics related to Economics, Finance and Management. The department also encourages research on interdisciplinary topics.

Scholars

Khuplianmang Thangsing

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Seltan Gomes

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Anjali

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arfat Ahmad Sofi,
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Kunal Kalra

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ritika Jaiswal,
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Akash Mohanty

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Kaushik Mukherjee

Ph.D. Supervisor - Suman Gupta,
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Abhinand RamaKrishnan

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Amrita Saha

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
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Amruta Anil Hippalgaonkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ch V V S N V Prasad,
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Sabhya Yadav

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dr Yadawananda Neog,
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Abhijith Vj

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arfat Ahmad Sofi,
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Dr. Coutinho Shawnn Melicio

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ch V V S N V Prasad,
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Dr. Ujjwala Bhand

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mridula Goel,
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Dr. Raj Vishwanath Amonkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Dr. Abhishek Sinha

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
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Dr. Manogna R.L.

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
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Dr. Riyanka Baral

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Dr. Anil Kumar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
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Dr. Prabhudesai Rohit Subhash

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ch V V S N V Prasad,
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Dr. Preeti E Ramanathan

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
Co. Supervisor - Prof. Mathew J Manimala

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Dr.Pinky Pawaskar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mridula Goel,
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Dr.Sheetal Thomas

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mridula Goel,
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Dr. Abinash Singh

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
Co. Supervisor - Prof. Sukumar Vellakkal

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Dr.Sandra Maria Fernandes

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
Co. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,

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Md Quaisar Ali

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arfat Ahmad Sofi,
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Peesapati Naresh Kumar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mridula Goel,
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Dr.Sudhir P R 

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Dr.Yadav Shashi Lata

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
Co. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,

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Mavis Henriques

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Sanghamitra Tripathy

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mridula Goel,
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Biswashree Tanaya Priyadarsini

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Kamesh Anand K

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
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Mayank Parashar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ritika Jaiswal,
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Ansari Gulam Goush

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rajorshi Sen Gupta,
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Alavani Helan Alias Vaibhavi Kabirdas

Ph.D. Supervisor - Richa Shukla,
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A V S Durga Prasad

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ch V V S N V Prasad,
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Shaikh Sameer Maulasab

Ph.D. Supervisor - Debasis Patnaik,
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Renjith Raj

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arfat Ahmad Sofi,
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Revankar Divya Satish

Ph.D. Supervisor - Aswini Kumar Mishra,
Co. Supervisor - Arfat Ahmad Sofi,

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Naik Sankalp Purushottam

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ch V V S N V Prasad,
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King David Kweku Botchway

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rajorshi Sen Gupta,
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Golda Godly

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dr Yadawananda Neog,
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Nandini Venkatesh Adhini

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ch V V S N V Prasad,
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Gayathri Sisir

Ph.D. Supervisor - Suman Gupta,
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Shnehal Soni

Ph.D. Supervisor - R Leshma Manogna,
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Neethu Thomas

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arfat Ahmad Sofi,
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March 24, 2017 To March 24, 2017

Guest Seminar- “Information & Environment” Speaker: Padma Bhusan Recipient Prof. Madhav Gadgil (Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore).

February 20, 2023 To February 20, 2023

Seminar Talk on “Technology Skills to Take You into The Future”. Resource Person: Prof. G Pardha Saradhi Varma,Vice Chancellor, K L University, Vijayawada.

February 7, 2023 To February 7, 2023

Seminar on “BUDGET 2023” By: Mr. Rammohan Menon, Guest Faculty at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus.

February 3, 2023 To February 3, 2023

“BLOOMBERG” Installation and Training session held on 3rd February 2023.

December 3, 2022 To December 3, 2022

Seminar on”Servicification and Global Value Chain Participation: A Study of Indian Firms” Resource Person: Prof. Subash Sasidharan, Professor – Economics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

August 26, 2016 To August 27, 2016

Workshop on ‘Insurance for Rural Areas’

November 29, 2016 To November 30, 2016

ArcGIS Training Workshop

March 2, 2017 To March 3, 2017

Use of NSS, ASI and Economic Census Unit-Level Data

May 20, 2017 To May 21, 2017

BITS GOA Economics Conclave 2017

November 3, 2017 To November 4, 2017

Workshop on Use of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)

February 16, 2018 To February 17, 2018

International Conference on Economics and Finance (ICEF-2018)

May 28, 2022 To July 6, 2018

Workshop on Engineering – Economics – Entrepreneurship cum summer course (Creating and Leading Entrepreneurial organizations ECON F414)

May 29, 2018 To June 1, 2018

12th World Congress on Regional Science

January 23, 2020 To January 25, 2020

2nd Annual International Conference on Economics and Finance (ICEF-2020)

October 29, 2022 To October 29, 2022

Online training session of “CMIE Prowess IQ”Resource Person: Mr. Omkar Sardesai, Assistant Vice President, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt.

March 9, 2019 To March 9, 2019

Two days’ workshop on “SPSS modeler” Resource Person: Mr. Tapabrata Chaudhuri, SPSS South Asia Pvt. Ltd.

March 1, 2019 To March 1, 2019

Invited talk on “A Comparison of Outcome and Behavior-based Incentive Programs for Workplace Safety” Resource Person: Dr. Vijay Ramani, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam

January 31, 2019 To January 31, 2019

Invited talk on “Understanding Indian Banking Crisis and its systematic symptoms using networks”. Resource Person: Dr. Wasim Ahmad, Faculty in the department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

October 19, 2018 To October 21, 2019

Workshop on “Time Series and Panel Data Analysis” Resource Person: Dr. T Mohanasundaram

May 29, 2018 To June 1, 2019

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce to be the organizing partner of the 12th Regional Science of World Congress between May 29 to June 01, 2018.

November 27, 2017 To November 27, 2017

Invited talk by Prof. Arun Kumar (Malcolm S Adiseshiah Chair Prof, Inst. of Social Sciences) – Demonetization, GST and Black Economy: Marginalizing the marginal

November 25, 2017 To November 25, 2017

MDP for PNB Executives on Insurance issues

October 5, 2017 To October 5, 2017

Invited Lecture: “Pay-What-You-Want Pricing under Competition: Breaking the Bertrand Trap” Speaker: Prof. Babu NahataProfessor of Economics, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

September 14, 2017 To September 14, 2017

Training on ProwessIQ
Resource Person: Premish Gangadhar Dekate, CMIE

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Junior Research Fellow(JRF) position under Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) funded project

Research Assistant (ICSSR, New Delhi)

Applications are invited for the position of Research Assistant in the Department of Economics and Finance at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa for an ICSSR sponsored research project titled “ Impact of E - National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) on the Farmers From Goa and Maharashtra”.

Research Associate(ICSSR Funded Project)

Applications are invited for the position of Research Assistant in the Department of Economics and Finance at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa for an ICSSR sponsored research project titled “ Impact of E - National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) on the Farmers From Goa and Maharashtra” (F.No.02/70/2021-22 /MJ /RP).

Project Assistant

Applications are invited for the position of Project Assistant in the Department of Economics & Finance at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa for a DST NSTMIS (PCPM) sponsored research project titled “Impact of Indigenous S&T innovations developed by Start-ups incubated in Academic Institutes in India” DST/PCPM/NSTMIS/02/2022-23 (G).

Research Associate position under NABARD funded project

Applications are invited for the position of Research Associate in the Department of Economics & Finance at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa for a NABARD sponsored research project titled “Assessing the Farmers’ Participation and Challenges in Linking Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Markets by e-National Agricultural Market (e-NAM): Evidence from the State of Goa”(336/P-371/2023-24).

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Mrs. Urmila Behera
Jr.Office Assistant, Department of Economics & Finance
BITS, Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus    
Near NH-17B, Bypass Road,  
Chamber #D-308/5(NAB) 
Zuarinagar – 403 726, Goa India
Email: ecofin.office@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Tel No.+91-832-2580880/883            

For Further Information Contact

  • Prof.Ch. V.V.S.V.V Prasad (HOD) Department of Economics and Finance

  • BITS, Pilani - K. K. Birla Goa Campus  Near NH-17B, Bypass Road,  Zuarinagar – 403 726, Goa, India

  • Phone: +91-832-2580881
  • E-mail: hod.ecofin@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

  • Mrs Urmila Behera

  • Jr.Office Assistant, Department of Economics and Finance

  • Phone: +91-832-2580880/883

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