Faculty

Dr Indranil Chowdhury

Associate Professor | Department of Economics

Contact (Off.): 9810810521

Email Address : indranil[dot]chowdhury[at]pgdav[dot]du[dot]ac[dot]in

  • Monetary Economics
  • Macroeconomics

 

  • BA (Hons.) in Economics , 1996 , Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  • MA in Economics , 1998 , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • MPhil in Economics , 2001 , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • PhD , 2020 , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Dr Indranil Chowdhury did his MA, MPhil, and PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The title of his PhD dissertation is “Monetary Policy and Inflation in India since 2000”. His area of interest is Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics. Apart from Economics, he is also interested in Data Science and is highly skilled in the programming language R. He is also an Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) at Shimla. He presently teaches papers on Mathematical Economics, Introductory Microeconomics, and Introductory Macroeconomics to first-year students. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, PGDAV College.

  • Mathematical Methods for Economics
  • Introductory Macroeconomics
  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Data Analysis using R
  • Ex-Officio Member, Admissions Committee in the year 2022-23.
  • Member, Placement Cell of the College, 2023-24.
  • Member, IT Infrastructure Committee 2022-23.
  • Member, Discipline Committee 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22.
  • Convener of the Admissions Committee in the year 2021-22.
  • Member, Library Committee 2021-23.
  • TIC, member of Apex Committee in AY20-21.
  • Member Academic Committee in AY2019-20.
  • Moderation Committee member in AY20-21.
  • SAF committee member in AY2020-21.
  • Member of the Course Formulation committee under UGCF 2022 set up by the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
  • Member of the Committee of Courses and Studies for Undergraduate Studies other than BA (H) in Economics set up by the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
  • Member of the IQAC of the College since April 2021.
  • Students’ Union advisor in 2011 and the Convener of Students’ Union in 2012.
  • Member of the Admissions Committee in 2007 and 2012.
  • Member of various staff council committee in various years
  • M.Phil. Title: “A Study of Growth and Stagnation in Organised Industrial Sector of West Bengal During 1974-75 to 1996-97”, Awarded in 2001, JNU, New Delhi.
  • Ph.D. Title: “Monetary Policy and Inflation in India since 2000”, Awarded in 2020, JNU, New Delhi.
  • Dasgupta, Z. and Chowdhury, I. (2023, June). Monetary Policy in the midst of Cost-push Inflation. Economic & Political Weekly, LVIII(22), pg 42-50.
  • Chowdhury, I. (2018, April). Monetary Policy and Inflation in India: A Study of Recent Past. UPUEA Economic Journal, 11(1), pg 20-40.
  • Chowdhury, I. (2019). Inflation in India in the Recent Past: An Explanation. Analytical Perspectives on the Indian Economy. (A. Bhatnagar, & C. Saratchand, Eds.) New Delhi, India: Aakar.
  • Chowdhury, I. (2015, June). Some Aspects of Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Journal of Business Management & Social Science Research, 4(6), 439-444.
  • Participated in a Workshop of an ICSSR Sponsored Project on Financial Globalisation and India: Internal and External Dimensions on 2nd November 2015 at JNU.
  • Presented a paper on “A study of the monetary policy in India in the post liberalisation period” in a National seminar on 25 years of Economic Reforms – issues, Impact & Challenges held on March 9, 2017 at Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, University of Delhi.
  • Presented a paper on “Some explanations of Inflation in India in the recent past” in a UGC Sponsored National Conference on Contemporary Challenges Before the Indian Economy held on March 8, 2019 at Satyawati College, University of Delhi.
  • Presented a paper on “Monetary policy in India in the post liberalisation period” in an International Seminar on ‘Development Challenges of India after Twenty-Five Years of Economic Reforms’ held on 16-18 March 2018 at BHU.
  • Participated in a seminar on “Demonetisation and GST: Emerging Issues in Indian Economy” organized by Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi on 12th February 2018 as a delegate.
  • Participated in a Webinar on ‘Monetary and Fiscal Responses to Covid-19’ held on 30th April 2020 at Shivaji College, University of Delhi.
  • Participated in a National Webinar on ‘Monetary Policy Framework in India’ by Prof. Pami Dua on 24th June 2020 at Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.
  • Successfully participated in Webinar Series (Basic) on “Transforming Teaching Learning Process using ICT Tools” organized by IQAC, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, from 23 July to 25 July 2020.
  • Successfully participated in Webinar Series (Professional) on “Transforming Teaching Learning Process using ICT Tools” organized by IQAC, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, from 28 July to 30 August 2020.
  • Attended numerous FDPs/RCs on research methodology, data analysis, advanced macroeconomics, economentrics, etc. in the last three years.
  • One of the organisers of the online workshop on "Usage of Corporate and Economic Databases for Business Decisions and Research"  held on 9 November 2023. Presented a paper on Inflation and Monetary Policy in the workshop. 
  • The coordinator of the short-term certificate course of 30 hours duration on “Data Analysis using R” in 2023.
  • Delivered a one-hour online lecture as a Resource Person for the short-term certificate course on "Data Analysis using R"  organised by the Department of Economics, PGDAV College, on 16th September 2023.
  • Delivered a two-hour online lecture as a Resource Person for the FDP- 105: Statistics with ‘R’, Financial Database and Analysis Software orgnised by the University of Delhi, in collaboration with the Guru Angad Dev-Teaching Learning Centre of the Ministry of Education (PMMMNMTT scheme) on 7th November 2022.
  • As a resource person conducted a 2-day online live session on “Research Methodology in Social Sciences” at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi on 31 October - 01 November 2022.
  • The coordinator of the short-term certificate course of 30 hours duration on “Data Analysis using R” in 2022.
  • Designed and conducted the online short-term certificate course of 30 hours duration on “Data Analysis using R” for the students of the College from 12 April to 29 April 2021. Was the convener of the organising team.
  • As a resource person conducted a 2-day online live session on “Data Analysis using R” at Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi on 24-25 November 2020.
  • Associateship (01.08.2018 – 31.08.2018) at the Inter University Centre at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla.

Newspaper Articles:

  • The Hindu, 13 February 2024. Decoding India's economic realities - II. (with Prasenjit Bose, Soumyadeep Biswas, Samiran Sengupta)
  • The Hindu, 12 February 2024. Decoding India's economic realities. (with Prasenjit Bose, Soumyadeep Biswas, Samiran Sengupta)
  • The Hindu, 4 May 2023. Guaranteed pension is not bad economics. (with Rohit Azad)
  • The Hindu, 23 March 2023. The Fed is a prisoner of its own mind. (with Rohit Azad)
  • The Hindu, 8 March 2023. Role of the external sector and the fiscal side in recovery. (with Rohit Azad)
  • The Hindu, 7 March 2023. Analysing the post-pandemic Indian economy and its recovery. (with Rohit Azad)
  • The Hindu, 3 February 2023, Putting Budget 2023 into perspective. (with Prasenjit Bose)
  • The Hindu, 13 December 2022. Oil, not workers, has pushed inflation in the United States. (with Rohit Azad)
  • The Hindu, 17 October 2022. Making a case for the old pension scheme. (with Rohit Azad)
  • Hindustan Times, 3 August 2022. Factors that show RBI can do better than inflation targeting. (with Rohit Azad)
  • The Hindu, 21 July 2021. India's equity market bubble may burst soon. (with Prasenjit Bose)
  • The Telegraph, 7 July 2021. Wide gap between vaccination plan & procurement. (with Prasenjit Bose)
  • "Lockdown o Covid Sankromon: Tathya ki Bolche?"  (in Bengali) - Arekrakam. Vol 8. Issue 8th. 1-15 July 2020. Available at: https://arekrakam.com/pdf/2020/Arek_Rakam_01_July_2020.pdf  (The english title is; "The Lockdown and COVID-19 in India: What do the data show?" )