Dr. Kaveri Deb
Assistant Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati
India
Biography
She is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati. Her current research focus is on International Trade and Economic Development.
Research Interest
She is interested in working on issues related to trade and its impact on the socio-economic conditions of trading nations. She has worked on the applications of Comparative Advantage Theory of International Trade. She has also worked on the effectiveness of South Asian Free Trade Area for the underdeveloped countries of the region. Currently She is working on a impact of Chinese import surge on the wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labor in India.
Publications
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Deb, K., & Basu, P. (2012). South Asian free trade area and its impact on exports of SAARC LDCs to India. Decision, 39(2), 21.
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Deb, K. (2015). Indices of Comparative Advantage: A Study with Focus on Differences between Gross Trade and Value-Added Trade (Doctoral dissertation).
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Deb, K., & Sengupta, B. (2017). On Empirical Distribution of RCA Indices. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 6(1), 23-41.
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Das, M., Kaur, S., Devi, N., Saikia, R., Saikia, M., Gope, A., ... & Baruah, D. M. (1997). Department of Humanities & Social Sciences.
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Deb, K., & Basu, P. (2012, January). Consistency of the Revealed Comparative Advantage Indices with the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory. In KNOWLEDGE GLOBALIZATION CONFERENCE, PUNE, INDIA January 5-7, 2012 (p. 122).
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Deb, K., & Hauk, W. R. (2017). The practice of using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) Indices to determine the flow of goods trade among countries is well established. But an important issue that demands attention is whether the RCA indices reflect the essentials of comparative advantage theory. Deb and Basu Foreign Trade Rev 46 (3): 3–28,(2011) examined the consistency of alternative RCA indices with the Heckscher-Ohlin theory... International Economics and Economic Policy, 14(1), 167-185.
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Deb, K., & Basu, P. (2011). Indices of Revealed Comparative Advantage and their Consistency with the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory: A Cross Sectional Analysis. Foreign Trade Review, 46(3), 3-28.
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Kaveri Deb, and William R. Hauk, "RCA Indices, Multinational Production and the Ricardian Trade Model," International Economics and Economic Policy (Springer), 14, pp. 1-25, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s10368-015-0317-z.
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Kaveri Deb, and Bodhisattva Sengupta, “On Empirical Distribution of RCA Indices,†Society and Management Review (Sage), 6(1), pp. 23-41, 2017, DOI: 10.1177/2277975216676125.
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Kaveri Deb, and Bodhisattva Sengupta, “Value-added Trade and Empirical Distributions of RCA Indices,†Journal of Quantitative Economics (Springer) , 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s40953-017-0071-x.
