CURRICULUM VITA

SATYAJIT GHOSH

442 Brennan Hall

Economics and Finance Department

Kania School of Management

University of Scranton

Scranton, PA 18510

E-Mail: ghoshs1@scranton.edu

Phone: (570) 941-6197

 

EDUCATION:          

 

1986

Ph.D. (Economics)

State University of New York at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY 14260.

1980-81

Southern Methodist University

Completed all coursework for Ph.D. in economics.

1983

M.A. (Economics)

State University of New York at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY 14260.

1978

M.A. (Economics)

University of Calcutta

Calcutta, India.

1976

B.A. (Major:  Economics)

Presidency College

Calcutta, India.

              

                    

 

CURRENT POSITION:

 

1999 - Present Professor

Department of Economics and Finance

Kania School of Management

University of  Scranton

1993 - Present

Chair

Department of  Economics and Finance

Kania School of  Management

 

 


EXPERIENCE:

 

1992 - 1999

Associate Professor

Department of Economics and Finance

School of Management

University of Scranton

1986-1992

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics and Finance

School of Management

University of Scranton

1984-1986

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

State University of New York at Oneonta

Oneonta, NY 13820.

1983-1984 

Instructor

State University of New York at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY 14260.

1979         

Research Fellow

Center for Urban and Regional Economics

University of Calcutta, India.

1978

Research Analyst

Department of Economics

University of Calcutta, India.

 

 

AREA OF TEACHING & RESEARCH:

 

Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, Managerial Economics,

Industrial Organization, Economic Development, Economics of Uncertainty.

 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION:

 

Tax Rate Uncertainty, Labor Supply and Saving in a Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Model, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 41, 2001, 49-68.

 

Interest Rate Risk, Labor Supply and Unemployment, Economic Modelling,

Vol. 18, 2001, 223-231.

 

Exogeneous Income Uncertainty, Labor Supply and Saving: A Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Analysis, Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Fall, 1998, 53- 59.

 


Advertising under Uncertainty,International Review of Economics and Business, April, 1994, 345-357.

 

Optimal Saving under Changes in Uncertainty: A Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Approach, (coauthered with Parantap Basu) Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 60, 1993, 119-127.

 

A Location Model under Technological Uncertainty,  International Review of Economics and Business, April, 1991, 331 - 344.

 

Bankruptcy and Unemployment in Optimal Wage-Employment Contracts, Seoul Journal of Economics, June, 1989, 143 - 160.

 

A New Class of Sufficient Conditions for the First Order Approach to the Principal-Agent Problem, Economics Letters, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1986 (Co-authored with M. Brown, S.H. Chiang and E. Wolfstetter), 1 - 6.

 

State Dependent Preferences and Non-Walrasian Employment Distortion in

Wage Employment Contracts, Contemporary Business Readings, 1998, 227-234.

 

A Stochastic Dominance Analysis of the Effect of Uncertainty on Saving in A Nonexpected Utility Maximizing framework (coauthored with Parantap Basu), Proceeding of the Decision Science Institute, 1992, 563-565.

 

Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution and Optimal Labor Supply Decision in a Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Model,(co-authored with Parantap Basu) Proceedings of the Decision Science Institute, 1991, 1070-1072.

 

 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATION:

 

A Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Analysis of Capital Accumulation Under Financial Constraints, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 2000.

 

Strategic R&D in Presence of Product Differentiation, presented at the 26th            

Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 2000.

 

State Dependent Preferences and Non-Walrasian Employment Distortion in Wage Employment Contracts, presented at the National Conference of the Academy of Business Administration, April 1998.

 

A Nonexpected Utility Analysis of Cost Reducing R&D Decisions: presented at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1996.

 


Capital Accumulation Under Financial Constraints When Rate of Return is Uncertain: A Nonexpected Utility Approach: presented at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1996.

 

A Stochastic Dominance Analysis of Consumption Interlinkage and Demand for Credit in a Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Model: presented at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1994.

 

Advertising under Uncertainty:  presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1993.

 

A Reconsideration of Optimal Saving Under Uncertainty with OCE Preferences:  presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1992.

 

Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution and Optimal Labor supply Decision in a Nonexpected Utility Maximizing Model:  presented at the Annual Conference of the Decision Science Institute, November, 1991.

 

Spillover and R&D Cooperation in Differentiated Duopoly:  presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1991.

 

The Optimal Location Decision under Production Uncertainty:  presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1989.

 

Bankruptcy and Unemployment in Optimal Wage Employment contracts:  presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, April 1988.

 

A New Class of Sufficient Conditions for the First Order Approach to the Principal-Agent Problem:  presented at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association,  December 1984.

 

 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:

 

Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 2000.

 

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 2000.

 

Discussant at the National Conference of Academy of Business Administration, April 1998.

 

Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1996.


 

Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1994.

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Global Finance Association,

April 1994.

 

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Service Association, January 1993.

 

Chair of a session on Time Series Analysis at the 18th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1992.

 

Chair of a session on the Issues in Macroeconomics at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association, January 1992.

 

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association, January 1992.

 

Chair of a panel on Research in Economic Theory at the 17th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association,  March 1991.

 

Discussant at the 17th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1991.

 

Chair of a session on the Issues in International Trade at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association, December 1990.

 

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association, December 1990.

 

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association, December 1989.

 

Discussant at the 15th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1989.

 

Discussant at the Annual Conference of the Allied Social Science Association, December 1988.

 

Discussant at the 14th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1988.

 


OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

 

External Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, University of Calcutta, India, 2002.

 

Referee, Economic Modelling and Journal of Economics.

 

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY:

 

Chair, Economics and Finance Department: 1993 - present.
Member, Faculty Senate: 2002 -
Member, Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee: 2002 -
Faculty Liaison to the Board of Trustees: 2002 -
Member, Adult Education Task Force: 2002 -
Member, Presidential Search Committee: 1997.
Member, Board on Rank and tenure: 1992 - 1994; 1997.
Member, Task Force on Ignation Identity, 1995 - 1996.
Member, Advisory Committee for the Office of Instructional Development: 1986 - present.
Member, Institutional Review Advisory Committee, 1997- 1998.
Member, Subcommittee on Assessment, Middle States Accreditation Committee, 1997.
Member, Fulbright Committee, 1996, 1992.
Member, Graduate Dean's Conference, 1996 -1997.
Member, GE Subcommittee for Social & Behavioral Sciences, 1994-95.
Member, Faculty Senate: 1992 - 1994.
Member, Faculty Senate Curriculum Subcommittee: 1992 - 1994.
Member, Honors council: 1991 - 1993.
Member Research Committee: 1990 - 1993.
Member, CAS Dean's Conference: 1991 - 1993.
Member, Curriculum Subcommittee, CAS Dean's Conference: 1991 - 93.
Member, Ad hoc Committee for OID Grant Review:  1992.
Member, SOM Dean's Conference: 1991 - present.
Chair, Henry George Lecture Committee: 1996 - present.
Member, Henry George Lecture Committee: 1990-1996.
Advisor to Economics majors in both SOM and CAS: 1990 - present.
Editor, SOM Research Report Series: 1986 - present.
Chair, SOM Math Review Committee: 1996 - 1997.
Mentor, MBA students in Finance major: 1990 - 1995.
Member, MBA Curriculum Committee: 1990 - 1995.
Member, SOM Core Review Committee: 1992.
Member, Ad hoc Committee for Student Research Program:  1990.
Member, Media Advisory Committee:  1989 - 1990.  
Chair, AACSB Accreditation Steering Committee:  1987-1988.
Moderator, Omicron Delta Epsilon -- the honor society in Economics:  spring 1987.

 

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

 

Participant, Economic Outlook Roundtable, hosted by the Scranton Times,

2001 - present.

Soccer Coach, Abington Youth Soccer League, 2001 - present.
Board Member, Hour Place Child Care Center, Clarks Summit, 1998 - 2000.
Volunteer, Telespond Senior Services, 1998 - 2000.
Chief  Instructor, Advanced Placement in Economics Institute, 1995 and 1996.
Volunteer, Meals on Wheels: 1991 - 1995.
Co-captain, Lackawanna  United Way, Metro II division:  1989.
Speaker addressing Abington School District's teachers on the importance and methodology of teaching economics to the high school students:  summer 1989.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

 

American Economic Association.
Western Economic Association.
Decision Sciences Institute.
Association of Indian Economic Studies.

 

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