Prasad Alaka Shree
- Prasad Alaka Shree
- Assistant Professor (Contract)
- Ph.D. (Economics)
- Visva-Bharati University, 2024
- Alaka’s research interests lie in the areas of international trade, microeconomics and development economics.
- She completed her PhD in Economics from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
- Her research focuses on the growing domain of digitalized trade in services.
- Specifically, her research work offers a nuanced perspective on how virtual trade between different time zones affects service production, firms’ decision-making processes, factor prices, output, informal sector, and overall welfare.
- She applies rigorous theoretical frameworks, employing both competitive and monopolistically competitive models to analyze these complex relationships.
- Prior to joining IGIDR, she served as an Assistant Professor at A.S. College, Deoghar, a constituent unit of Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Jharkhand.
- February 2026 – Present: Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
- September 2024 – February 2026: Assistant Professor, A.S. College, Deoghar, Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Jharkhand, India.
- Prasad, Alaka Shree, and Biswajit Mandal. 2024. “Variation in Labor Skills and Offshoring across Time Zones.” Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 71(4): 553-569. doi:10.1111/sjpe.12379.
- Mandal, Biswajit, and Alaka Shree Prasad. 2022. “Emigration, Economic Reform and Wage Distribution in a Small Economy.” In Internal Migration Within South Asia, edited by Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay, 239–256. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-16-6144-0_13.
- Mandal, Biswajit, Saswati Chaudhuri, and Alaka Shree Prasad. 2021. “A Note on Unemployment of Unskilled Labor Due to COVID-19 Led Restriction on Migration and Trade.” Review of Economics 71 (3): 223–36. doi:10.1515/roe-2020-0030.
- Mandal, Biswajit, and Alaka Shree Prasad. 2021. “A Simple Model of Time Zone Differences, Virtual Trade and Informality.” Indian Growth and Development Review 14 (1): 81–96. doi:10.1108/IGDR-12-2018-0128.
- Prasad, Alaka Shree. 2020. “Dibyendu Maiti, Fulvio Castellacci and Arne Melchior (Eds), Digitalisation and Development: Issues for India and Beyond.” Journal of Asian Economic Integration 2 (2): 251–54. doi:10.1177/2631684620940431.
- Mandal, Biswajit, and Alaka Shree Prasad. 2020. “Time Zone Differences and Service Trade.” In Digitalisation and Development, edited by Dibyendu Maiti, Fulvio Castellacci, and Arne Melchior, 183–97. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9996-1_7.
- Mandal, Biswajit, Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, and Alaka Shree Prasad. 2019. “Effects of Trade Reform on Health and Tourism Sectors of the Reforming Country.” Review of Market Integration 11 (3): 176–89. doi:10.1177/0974929220969680.
- Prasad, Alaka Shree, and Biswajit Mandal. 2019. “Time Zone Difference, Skill Formation and Corrupt Informal Sector: The Role of Virtual Trade.” Indian Economic Review 54 (2): 261–90. doi:10.1007/s41775-019-00059-0.
- Prasad, Alaka Shree, Biswajit Mandal, and Prasun Bhattacharjee. 2017. “Time Zone Difference, Comparative Advantage and Trade: A Review of Literature.” Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance 5 (3): 1–16. doi:10.15604/ejef.2017.05.03.001.
- Selected for the award of fellowship under the scheme of National Fellowship for Other Backward Classes (NFOBC) after qualifying for Assistant Professor in the December 2020 & June 2021 (merged session) National Eligibility Test (UGC–NET).
- Awarded the Karunamoy Mukerji Memorial Award for standing first in BA (Hons) in Economics in the year 2014 by the Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati.
Contact Information :
Email Address :
- alaka@igidr.ac.in
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- 02269096549
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