Debasis Rooj is Associate Professor of Economics at the FLAME University. Before joining FLAME, he was Associate Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, Ranchi, India. He has over 14 years of teaching experience both in the US and India. Debasis has taught macroeconomics, business mathematics, and econometrics at the undergraduate level and financial econometrics, marketing analytics, and operational research at the post-graduate levels. Dr. Rooj extensively imbibes real-life examples and data analysis in his teaching.
Dr. Rooj’s current research includes exploring the dynamic macroeconomic linkages in India’s housing and tourism market. He has recently co-authored a paper that provides deep insight into India’s health insurance market with significant policy implications. In his other work, he uses mixed frequency regression analysis and shows that monetary policy has a limited role in India’s private investment growth. Debasis has presented his research in several national and international conferences. He has also provided research support for the
Economic Survey of Jharkhand 2015-16 & 2018-19, Government of Jharkhand and was also a part of a Government of Jharkhand sponsored evaluation program on creating awareness about protecting environment and biodiversity.
His Ph.D. dissertation at Northern Illinois University, USA explored the simultaneous linkages between the macro-economy and financial market using a production-based DSGE model with long-run stochastic shocks. His paper titled Asset Pricing Implications in a Production Economy with an Investment-Specific Technology Shock won second prize at the Ph.D. Students’ Thesis Competition organized by the Illinois Economic Association, Illinois in 2010. He was also the recipient of outstanding teaching assistant award by the department of economics, NIU.
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