Paramita MukherjeeParamita Mukherjee is Dean (Academics) and Associate Professor (Economics) at International Management Institute (IMI), Kolkata. She is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, has completed MS in quantitative economics from the Inian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and PhD in economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has more than 18 years of varied experience in industry, research and teaching. She has worked with AC Nielsen (formerly ORG MARG), ICRA and reputed business schools such as IBS, Kolkata, and Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata.

She teaches courses on economics, statistics, business analytics, financial econometrics, financial institutions and markets and time series analysis. She has conducted management development programmes (MDPs) with Confederation of Industries in India (CII), Kolkata. She also has experience of handling consulting assignments in the power sector.

Her research interest lies in applied financial economics and econometrics. She has worked on contemporary issues in the financial sector, for example, foreign institutional investors, mutual funds, stock return volatility, volatility spillover, gold prices and share repurchases. She has authored a number of research papers in international journals such as Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Applied Financial Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade as well as in books and national journals such as India Macroeconomics Annual and Economic and Political Weekly. She has presented papers in several conferences and seminars in India as well as at Katholik University Leuven, Belgium; Borsa Istanbul, Turkey; National Taiwan University; Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, China and University of Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. Read More Read Less