Department of Economics

Dr. Amit Batabyal

Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics
E-mail: aabgsh@rit.edu
Phone #: (585) 475-2805
Fax #: (585) 475-5777; (585) 475-7120
Office Hours: By Appointment
Personal Website: http://people.rit.edu/aabgsh/

Course Teaching Assignments:

Quarter:

Econ 450 - Benefit-Cost Analysis
Econ 453 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

Spring Quarter:

Econ 454 - International Trade and Finance

Research Interests:

Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, International Trade Theory, and the interface of Economics with Biology, Philosophy, and Political Science

Recent Publications:

Stochastic Models of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages, University Press of America, 2006.
"A Stackelberg Game Model of Trade in Renewable Resources with Competitive Sellers," (with H. Beladi), Review of International Economics, Vol 14, pp 136-147, 2006.
"Renewable Resource Management in Developing Countries: How Long Until Crisis?" (with H. Beladi), Review of Development Economics, Vol 10, pp 103-112, 2006.

Selected Publications:

"On the Design of International Environmental Agreements for Identical and Heterogeneous Developing Countries," Oxford Economic Papers, Vol 52, pp 560-583, 2000.
" Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Equivalence of Economic and Ecological Criteria in Range Management," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 56, pp 423-436, 2005.
"International Trade and Biological Invasions: A Queuing Theoretic Analysis of the Prevention Problem," (with H. Beladi), European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 170, pp 758-770, 2006.

Selected Presentations:

AIES and IEFS Sessions at the Allied Social Science Association Meeting, Boston, January 2006.
International Workshop, Tinbergen Institute and Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2006.
3rd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Kyoto, Japan, July 2006.

Other Information:

Member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), and the International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS).