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Debdatta Saha

Associate Professor
PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, 2013)

Contact Details

debdatta(at)sau.ac.in
South Asian University ,Rajpur Rd, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110068
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She has completed her Doctoral work from the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in Industrial Organization, with particular focus on standardization in network industries. Additionally, she has worked in some areas of government policy such as fiscal policy (as an Economist at the National Institute of Public Finance and policy) and competition policy and regulation ( as an Expert in the Economics Division at the Competition Commission of India).

She has earlier taught graduate-level courses in industrial organisation and the theory of finance at the Teri University, New Delhi. She has also taught introductory finance to graduate classes at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics, industrial organization and the economics of competition law.

Qualifications

  • PhD from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi , in 2013

Research Interests

Evaluation of firm performance, Economics of Innovation, Economics of Networks, Competition policy


Recent Publications

  • Thacker, Jessica and Debdatta Saha. "Financial Performance and Corporate Distress: Searching for Common Factors for Firms in the Indian Registered Manufacturing Sector." Computational Economics (Springer) (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-024-10620-6
  • Saha, Debdatta, Timothy M. Young, and Jessica Thacker. "Predicting firm performance and size using machine learning with a Bayesian perspective." Machine Learning with Applications (Elsevier) 11 (2023): 100453.
  • Saha, Debdatta. "Firm fragility: A re-interpretation in the times of the Covid-19 outbreak." in The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives (2022). Routledge. Edited by Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar, Soumyen Sikdar: 231-259.
  • Saha, Debdatta, Timothy M. Young, and Jessica Thacker. "Data Privacy and Competition Law at the Crossroads". Economic and Political Weekly.  Vol. 56, Issue No. 39, (2021).
  • Saha, Debdatta, Verma, Samridhi and Varun Agarwal. "On the Economics of E-pharmacies: Potential Issues for Anti-trust Analysis". Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 56, Issue No. 35,  (2021) https://www.epw.in/engage/article/economics-e-pharmacies-potential-issues-anti-trust.
  • Saha, Debdatta and T. M. Vasuprada. "Understanding the trade-offs in drug development: Retrospective on lessons from the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of Developing Societies (Sage) 37.3 (2021): 329-362.
  • Saha, Debdatta and T. M. Vasuprada. "Reconciling conflicting themes of traditionality and innovation: an application of research networks using author affiliation." Advances in Traditional Medicine (Springer) 21 (2021): 841-854.
  • T.M. Vasuprada and Debdatta Saha. "Investigating commercial incentives for innovation: An application in traditional medicine." Studies in Microeconomics (Sage) 9.1 (2021): 66-91.
  • Saha, Debdatta. "Industrial Policy: Comparing Bihar and Jharkhand." Social Statistics: Manifestation of Growth. Edited by Ashmita Gupta, (2020), Primus Books, pp. 237-255.
  • T.M. Vasuprada and Debdatta Saha. "The Role of Networks in Promoting Innovation: The Interesting Case of Ayurveda Research in India." Transforming Indian Economy: From Vision to Reality. Edited by Yamini Gupt and Ananya Ghosh Dostidar, (2018), Ane Publishing, pp. 13-30.
  • Shrestha, Ram Narayan, T.M.Vasuprada and Debdatta Saha. "Competing with Virtual Entities: IT Product Purchases in India." Retail Marketing in India: Trends and Future Insights. Edited by Anshu Gupta and Kartik Dave, (2016), pp. 1-15, Emerald Publishing.
  • Saha, Debdatta, and Prabal Roy Chowdhury. "Coordination and Private Information Revelation." Games (MDPI) 9.3 (2018): 64.
  • Saha, Debdatta."Identity and perception of risk for entrepreneurs: Lessons from an industrially less developed state in India." Athens Journal of Business and Economics (ATINER, Greece) (2018): 1-22.
  • Saha, Abheek and Debdatta Saha. "Spectrum Allocations: Post 2G Scam Era." International Research Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Premier Publishers) 2.1 (2018): 23-31.
  • Rajaraman, Indira and Debdatta Saha (Majumdar). "An Empirical Approach to the Optimal Size of the Civil Service." Public Administration and Development (Wiley), (2008), Vol. 28, Issue No. 3, pp. 223-233.
  • Rajaraman, Indira and Debdatta Saha (Majumdar). "Equity and Consistency Properties of the Twelfth Finance Commission Recommendations." Economic and Political Weekly Special Issue, (2005), Vol. XL, Issue No. 31, pp. 3413-20.

Recent Books

Economics of the Food Processing Industry: Lessons from Bihar, India (Springer, 2020)

Awards & Honours

  • Special mention for being one of the best undergraduate class teachers in Economics at the London School of Economics, London (while pursuing graduate studies in the London School of Economics, London) (2000)
  • Received an IGC (London) project for studying food processing industries in Bihar through an international selection process (2016). The reviewer of the project report suggested the publication of a monograph on the basis of the findings of the project. This has resulted in the book "Economics of the Food Processing Industry: Lessons from Bihar, India" in 2020. Reviews of the book have received positive reviews published in the Indian Economic Review (Springer) and Millenial Asia (Sage).

Last Updated : 16 Sep 2024