Monisankar Bishnu
Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre,7 SJSS Marg, New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected] & [email protected], Phone (O): 91-11-41493936, Fax: 91-11-4149 3981
Personal
:Gender: Male, Citizenship: India.
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/mbishnu
Education
:Ph.D in Economics, 2005 - 2010 August,Iowa State University, USA.
Thesis title: Essays on optimal allocation of resources by governments.
Master of Science in Quantitative Economics, 2000,Indian Statistical Institute, India.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 1998,Jadavpur University, India.
Professional experience (Academic)
: Regular positions:Assistant Professor (Tenured), Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, January 2016 - till date.
Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor), Research School of Economics, CBE, Australian National University, January 2015 - January 2016.
Other academic positions:
Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2013 - December 2014, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, USA.
Visiting Assistant Professor, December 2011 - December 2014, Economics and Planning Unit,Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
Visiting Scientist, July 2010 - December 2011, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
Professional experience (Non - academic, Banking)
:Assistant Manager, 2000 - 2004, Planning Policy And Development (PAD) Dept/Management Informa- tion Services (MIS) Dept, Industrial Investment Bank of India Ltd, Government of India.
Publications in Journals
:1. On the e¢ ciency of ‘single window’(with K. B. Athreya). Economic Theory, Vol. 43 (2) (May 2010):
207-226.
2. Hierarchy of players in swap robust voting games (with S. Roy). Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 38 (2), (2012): 11-22.
3. Voting under Temptation (with M. Wang). Economics Letters, Vol. 118 (3), (2013): 419-423.
4. Linking consumption externalities with optimal accumulation of human and physical capital and intergenerational transfers. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 148 (2), (2013): 720-742.
5. Factor Income Taxation, Growth, and Investment Speci…c Technological Change (with P. Gopalakr- ishnan and C. Ghate). Economic Modelling, Volume 57, September 2016, pages 133-152.
6. The Political Intergenerational Welfare State (with M. Wang). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 77, April 2017, Pages 93-110.
Some recent working papers
:7. Fully Funded vis-a-vis Pay-As-You-Go - the Role of Myopia (with S. Roy).
8. Implications of Present-biased Preferences on Capital and Inheritance Taxes (with C. S. Kumru and A. Nakornthab). ANU and The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (Australia) working paper.
9. Social Security: Progressive Bene…ts but Regressive Outcome? (with N. L. Guo and C. S. Kumru).
10. A Revisit to the Annuity Role of Estate Tax (with N. L. Guo and C. S. Kumru).
Teaching experience
:AtIndian Statistical Institute, Delhi:
Microeconomics II: Spring 2011.
Macroeconomics II: Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013 (jointly with S. P. Das), Fall 2016, Fall 2017.
Mathematical Programming: Fall 2016.
AtAustralian National University, Australia:
Diploma Macroeconomics (Graduate).
Macroeconomics 3 (Undergraduate).
AtIowa State University, USA Introductory Macroeconomics.
Introductory Microeconomics.
Intermediate Microeconomics.
Referee services
:Applied Mathematics and Computation, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Economic and Political Weekly, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Environment and Development Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Indian Growth and Development Review, International Game Theory Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Latin Amer- ican Economic Review, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Mathematical Social Sciences, Macro- economic Dynamics, Research in Economics, The R Journal.
Honors, grants and awards
:Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Australia.
Start-up Research Grant,Australian National University, Australia.
Government of India National scholarship 1993.
Other services
:Seminar coordinator,Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
General seminar coordinator, Research School of Economics, CBE,Australian National University, Australia
Member of the Search and Visitor Committee, Research School of Economics, CBE, Australian Na- tional University, Australia.
