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Core Faculty

About Core Faculty

Dr. Subhasis Bera

Ph.D.(JNU), MPhil (JNU)

Subject : Economics

Official e-mail ID : s.bera@isbm.ac.in

Dr. Subhasis Bera is an Associate Professor in the area of Economics and Quantitative Technique, International School of Business and Media, Kolkata. He has more than fourteen years of experience in research and teaching. He has worked as a Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi and has worked at World Bank (New Delhi) as a consultant. He also taught courses in Applied Microeconomics at Postgraduate level and Graduate level.

His areas of expertise are Economics of Technology, Econometrics, Development Economics and International Trade; In particular, he has worked on Digital Divide and Open Source Software Development, Foreign Direct Investment, Information and Communication Technology and Applied Econometrics.

Qualifications:

Silver Medalist (MA)

Service

Associate Professor I January 2019- International School of Business & Media, Kolkata, India

Associate Professor I April 2014- October 2018 FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India

Assistant Professor I September 2011- March 2014 FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India

Fellow I February 2008- September 2011 Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India

Consultant I October 2007- December 2007 World Bank, New Delhi, India

Lecturer (Ad Hoc) I Lecturer (Ad Hoc) I October 2000- July 2003 Contai Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, W.B., India

Lecturer (Ad Hoc) I October 2000- July 2003 Contai Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, W.B., India

Consulting

October 2007- December 2007 World Bank, New Delhi, India

Book:

“Business Sustainability: Challenges and Issues” edited (with Jitendra Das, Shallini Taneja, Reeta Raina), Bloomsbury, India, January, 2015

Lecturer (Ad Hoc) I October 2002- July 2003 Vidyasagar University, Midnapur, W.B., India

Lecturer (Ad Hoc) I October 2000- July 2003 Contai Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, W.B., India

Research Articles:

“Club Convergence and Drivers of Digitalization Across Indian States”, Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier (Accepted)

“Impact of Diversification on Performance of Top Indian ICT Outsourcing Firms: An Entropy Analysis”, International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, World Scientific Publishing, (with Rajneesh Chouhan) (forthcoming)

“Determinants of Indian Economic Growth” in Imagining India as a global power: Prospects and Challenges ed by Sangit K. Ragi, Sunil Sondhi, Vidhan Pathak, Routledge, 2017

“Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Total Factor Productivity in Vietnam” in Vietnam: The Emerging Asian Star From A War-Stricken Nation ed by Das, Arora, Bloomsbury, 2017

“Economic and Political Determinants of Bilateral FDI between Italy and India” in “Reviving Italy: Reflections”, ed by Das, Arora, Bloomsbury, New Delhi, 2015

“The Core Group in OSS: A Behavioural Model for Sustainable Development” in “Business Sustainability: Challenges and Issues”, ed by Das, Bera, Taneja, Raina, Bloomsbury, India, 2015

“Business Sustainability: An integrated Approach” in “Business Sustainability: Challenges and Issues”, ed by Das, Bera, Taneja, Raina, Bloomsbury, 2015 (with Das, Taneja, Raina)

“India-Malaysia Bilateral Trade: Performance and Policies”, In “Malaysia: Challenges and Perspectives”, ed by Das, J. And H. Arora, Bloomsbury, 2014.

“Role of Technological Factors in the Price: A Cross Country Comparison across Server Vendors”, World Review of Business Research, Vol 4, No. 1, pp.36-47, March 2014,

“The Issues of Competition in the Indian Server Market”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 45, No. 35, August 28-September 03, 2010, pp58-65, ( with Rajat Kathuria)

“Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India, “, ICRIER-Indicus Analytics Research Report, March 2010 (with Rajat Kathuria, Shikha Gupta, Mamta, Rajkumar Sahi) ( available at http://www.icrier.org/pdf/MainFrame_FinalReport.pdf )

“Digital Divide Among Selected Industrialized States in India: Myth or Reality?” in V. Upadhyay et al (editors) Productivity and Quality: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Tata McGraw-Hill: New Delhi,2006. (with Amit Shovon Ray)

“Cyber- attack and COO effect on Russian Software Industry”, In JK Das, H Arora (ed) Reinventing Indo-Russia Relations, Bloombury, (forthcoming)

Selected Working Papers and Discussion Papers:

“Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Total Factor Productivity in Vietnam”, FORE Working Paper, WP2016/04, March 2016

“India Uzbekistan Bilateral Merchandise Trade Relations”, FORE Working Paper, WP2015/16, December 2015

“Economic and Political Determinants of Bilateral FDI between Italy and India”, FORE Working Paper, WP2014/03, December 2014

“How China is Different from India?”, FORE Working Paper No. Dec 2011, WP 4, 2011

“South-South FDI vs North-South FDI: A Comparative Analysis in the Context of India”, ICRIER Working Paper 238, July 2009(with Shikha Gupta)

“To Contribute or not to Contribute: Micro-theoretical Models of the Open Source Software (OSS) Development“, CITD Discussion Paper DP0909, April 2009 (with Amit Shovon Ray)(available at: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Academics/Schools/SchoolOfInternationalStudies/CITD/DiscussionPapers/OSS.pdf)

Teaching

Managerial Economics

Advanced Econometrics for Managers

Business Economics

Applied Microeconomics

Effective Pricing

Awards

Silver Medalist (MA)