User:Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh

Nilanjan Ghosh,

Economist

Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh is an applied economist and econometrician by training. He obtained his Doctorate from Indian Institute of Management at Kolkata (India) in Ecological Economics. He is the Senior Vice President and head of Takshashila Academia of Economic Research (TAER), the research arm of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited. Prior to joining TAER, he was a faculty member at TERI University and a senior researcher at The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi.

He has a wide range of research and consulting interests, significant of which are Natural Resource Economics, Commodity Derivatives, Development and Environmental Economics. His specific interests are in valuation and water resource economics, issues related to working of commodity futures, and general macroeconomics.

Water Conflicts and Economics Ghosh showed that water conflicts are not entirely functions of physical scarcity of water, but of temporal coincidence of demand based on scarcity value. This is reflected in the paper: "A Scarcity Value based Explanation of Transboundary Water Disputes" published in Water Policy. In a recent publication, he conceptualised a framework of South Asian water futures exchange.

Commodity Markets Nilanjan Ghosh heads a team of researchers that has been working on various issues related to commodity derivatives markets, macroeconomics, and ecological economics.