Economics & Strategy

Economics and Strategy is one of the key academic areas having a link with all post graduate programmes of NITIE. The area combines two broad disciplines, viz. Applied Economics and Strategic Management.

The area faculty members are interested to teach in a wide variety of contemporary courses and teach in the fellow programme, post graduate and executive programmes of the institute.

Faculty members undertake theoretical and empirical research on a large number of inter-disciplinary areas and engage in sponsored research from the industry, government agencies and international organizations. Faculty members regularly contribute in reputed international journals (Scimago, Scopus, ABDC), books, popular media, conferences and seminars.

The area regularly organises Management Development Programmes (MDPs) and Unit based Programmes (UBP) for the working executives for both the public and private sectors. The area has the expertise in offering need based management consultancy in performance evaluation and design of incentive schemes, economic impact analysis and policy evaluation, workforce planning, strategic consultancy, business analytics, quantitative analysis and corporate governance.

PG and Fellow programmes

Core Courses

Managerial Economics
Strategic Management

Electives

Macroeconomic Environment and Policy
Business Analysis and Econometric Applications
Economics of Regulation
Economics of Strategy
Environmental Economics
Global Trade and Institutions
Industrial Organization
International Business Strategy
Mergers and Acquisitions
Strategy and Organization
Strategy Planning and Organisation
Public Systems and Policy
Resource Economics
Industrial Resource Economics
Indian Economy
Behavioural Economics
Economic Application of Game Theory
Digital Economics
Economics of Retail and Distribution
Network Economics
Development Economics
Economics of Agri Business
Rural Economy
Public Finance
Carbon Market Analysis
Economics of Climate Change
Corporate Governance
Economics of innovation
Money and Banking
Growth and Structural Change
Urban Economics
Agglomeration Economics
Advanced Econometrics
Econometrics for Programme Evaluation
Environmental Valuation
Market Design

Management Development Programmes

Business Decision Making
Managerial Skills for Technical Personnel
Strategy and Leadership Development for Managers
Corporate Performance Measurement
Economic Tools for Managers
Productivity, Efficiency and Business Forecasting
Competition Policy
Economic Indicators for Managerial Decision Making
Network Market for Business Decision Making
Business Analytics for Customer and Employee Relationship Management
Business Analytics using Machine Learning Techniques in R and Python

Area Faculty

Prof. Binilkumar Amarayil Sreeraman

Research Areas - Economic of Renewable Energy and Distributed Energy Systems, Multi-modal mobility choice studies, Moral hazard of drivers and road safety, Regional Innovation Systems and Competitiveness of Industrial Clusters, Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Non-market Valuation of Natural resoruces, Environmental Policy.

Prof. Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya

Research Areas – Strategic Management, International Business Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy and Organization,Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility

Prof. Utpal Chattopadhyay

Research Areas- Globalisation and global competitiveness, economic environment of business, macroeconomic policies, economics of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, micro, small and medium enterprises.

Prof. Vijaya Gupta

Research Areas- Socioeconomic impacts of climate change, adaptation strategies in agriculture due to climate change, vulnerability assessment due to climate change, environmental policy, growth and environment, environmental valuation, industrial productivity, social entrepreneurship, developmental issues.

Prof. Mainak Mazumdar

Research Areas -Applied game theory, Innovation networks, Micro, Small and Medium enterprises, Productivity and efficiency, Poverty

Prof. Poonam Singh

Research Areas-Firm Competition, Corporate Governance in Family Firms, Financial Inclusion, International Trade and Policy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Public Policy.