Faculty Detail

Dr. Piyali Majumder

PhD. Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), New Delhi
Visiting Assistant Professor
Area:  Economics and Public Policy

Contact

Email:  piyali.majumder@iimrohtak.ac.in
Phone:  01262-228623

Dr. Piyali Majumder is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the area of Economics and Public
Policy at IIM Rohtak. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi (IITD). She has completed her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), New
Delhi. She has earned her M.Sc. and B.Sc. (hons) degrees in Economics from University of Calcutta (CU).
She has worked as an Assistant Professor at St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. She has worked as a Consultant with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. She has worked with various policy think-tanks of India -like Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).

International Trade, Microeconomics, Industrial Economics, Indian Economy

International Trade, Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Advanced Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics

Journal Publications
Goldar, B., & Majumder, P. (2022). What factors drive industrial plants in emerging economies to adopt ISO 14000 environmental management standards: Evidence from the Indian organized manufacturing sector. Environmental Development, 100771. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211464522000732#:~:text=Environment%20goals%20drive%20a%20lot,plants%20to%20adopt%20ISO%2014000 [ Impact factor = 5.4 (2024) Cite Score = 7.8 (2024)]
Majumder, P., Sawhney, A (2020). Manufacturing agglomeration and export dynamics across Indian states. Indian Economic. Review 55, 3–26 Link:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41775-020-000835#:~:text=Overall%20industrial%20agglomeration%20has%20been,a%20slightly%20lesser%20extent%20now

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- Book Chapters
o Ray, Majumder and Thakur (2023), Macroeconomic Impacts of Coal
Transition, Mohanty, M., & Sarkar, R. (Eds.) The Role of Coal in a
Sustainable Energy Mix for India: A Wide-Angle View (1st ed.). Routledge
India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003433088
o Sawhney A., Majumder P. (2019) Tracking Efficiency of the Indian Iron and Steel Industry. In: Abergel F., Chakrabarti B., Chakraborti A., Deo N., Sharma K. (eds) New Perspectives and Challenges in Econophysics and Sociophysics, New Economic Windows, Springer, Cham. Link:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-11364-3_14

 Opinion Articles
o Ray, S. and Majumder, P., (2023, September 17) Climate Action: ‘Geography’Of Coal Transition — A Tale Of Two Indian States,
https://news.abplive.com/blog/climate-action-geography-of-coal-transition-lessons-from-two-indian-states-jharkhand-chhattisgarh-g20-delhi-declaration-1636462
o Majumder, P., Mathur, S., & Pohit, S. (2023, August 4). Smoky Affair. EU’s
CBAM is unfair in principle. The Hindu Businessline. Link:
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/eus-cbam-is-unfair-in-principle/article67154996.ece#:~:text=While%20trying%20to%20achieve%20the,%C3%A0%2Dvis%20the%20developed%20countries.

- Conferences/ Seminars/Invited Lectures (selected)
o “Spatial Heterogeneity in Carbon Dioxide Emission Intensity and Role of FDI-Evidence from Indian Organized sector manufacturing plants”, [joint paper with Professor Bishwanath Goldar (IEG)] at the International Conference on Recent Developments in Economics Research: Theory and Evidence Organized by Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 7-8 March 2024. Link:
https://sites.google.com/view/citdjnu2024conference/home
o “Impact of Agglomeration Economies on Plant-level Productivity -Evidence from Indian Manufacturing” in National Conference Towards Industrial Transformation of India, October 4-6th 2023 (Joint paper with Professor Aparna Sawhney, JNU).
o “Productivity spillover from foreign firms to industrial enterprises in the organized and unorganized manufacturing sector”, in Two-day Workshop on 75 Years of Productivity Growth in India 24-25th February 2023 (joint paper with Bishwanath Goldar (IEG), Piyali Majumder (NCAER), Samiran Dutta (Paris School of Economics, France)
o “Impact of agglomeration economies on polluting vs. non-polluting firm’s export decision- a study of India’s organized manufacturing sector”; in the workshop onNew Paradigm of Economic Development: Social and Environmental Dimensions” DAAD-sponsored program “Comparative Economic Development Studies”, 2017, New Delhi
o “Spatial Inequality in Industrial Development of India” in the workshop on “Crisis,
Inequality and Development”, East China Normal University (ECNU); as a part of the DAAD-sponsored program “Comparative Economic Development Studies”,2016, Shanghai, China.
o Invited as an expert at the The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)-European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST)”
Roundtable on Climate Trade Nexus Assessment (CTNA) on October 18, 2023, TERI, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi,
o Invited as a Discussant for the session India’s climate commitments and their implications of Council for Social Development (CSD) Seminar on
Environmental Protection in India from the Perspective of the Poor, New Delhi, 21-22 September 2023

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