Paramita Mukherjee is Professor (Economics) at International Management Institute Kolkata. She has been associated with IMI Kolkata since 2012 and has handled the responsibility of Dean (Academics). She has completed her Bachelors in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata and MS in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She completed her PhD from Jadavpur University. She has twenty three years of experience in industry, research and academics, with stints at AC Nielsen (formerly ORG MARG) as Research Associate, ICRA as Junior Economist and renowned business schools as faculty member. She has been in academics for more than sixteen years. She teaches courses on managerial economics, financial institutions and markets, financial risk management, applied econometrics and business forecasting. Her research interest lies in financial economics, applied econometrics and macroeconomics. She has worked on contemporary issues in financial sector and authored anumber of research papers in international journals of repute. She has worked on issues like foreign institutional investors, mutual funds, stock market integration, volatility in stock markets, gold market, share repurchase, financial integration in Asian countries etc. She has also authored research papers involving macroeconomic issues like inflation, public finance issues like efficiency of stamp duty revenue collection etc. She has publications in journals like Applied Financial Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Economic Change and Restructuring, Resources Policy, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Economic and Political Weekly, Global Business Review among others. She has been awarded with research grants from organisations like India Gold Policy Centre sponsored by World Gold Council. She has also handled consulting assignments.
