Phone:
+91-79-7152-4913
Email:
Website:
http://ranjanrgt.wixsite.com/ranjanghosh
Secretary:
Ms. Viddhi Kotak
viddhik@iima.ac.in
Phone:+91-79-7152-4810
Prof. Ranjan Kumar Ghosh |
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Center for Management in Agriculture | |||||
Educational Qualifications |
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Ph. D. Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2014) | |||||
Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington, US (2013) | |||||
M.Sc. Economics, Madras School of Economics (MSE), Chennai, India (2007) | |||||
B.A. Economics, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India (2004) | |||||
Academic Affiliation |
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Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) – Ahmedabad, (present) | |||||
Visiting Researcher, School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University [2019] | |||||
Forskare (eq. Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, SLU Uppsala, Sweden (2016-17) | |||||
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, SLU Uppsala, Sweden (2014-16) | |||||
Research Associate, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi (2008-09) | |||||
Professional Affiliation |
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Associate Fellow, WINS, Humboldt University Berlin | |||||
Alumni, The Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) | |||||
Member, The World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) | |||||
Member, International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) | |||||
Ex-Economist, Citigroup Global Services, Mumbai | |||||
Consultant, Global Soil Governance, IASS, Potsdam, Germany |
Year | Modules |
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Master's Courses |
Value Chain Management - Applications in Agribusiness (VCM), IIM Ahmedabad Agribusiness Entrepreneurship (ABE), IIM Ahmedabad Rural Social and Institutional Environment (RuSIE), IIM Ahmedabad Managing Sustainability, IIM Ahmedabad Econometrics and Programming (Bachelor's), SLU Uppsala, Sweden Economics of Agri-food Value Chains, SLU Uppsala, Sweden Climate and Energy Management, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Institutional Economics and Political Economy, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
Doctoral Courses |
Foundations of New Institutional Economics (FNIE), IIM Ahmedabad Agricultural Management (AM-2), IIM Ahmedabad Agro-food Value Chain Management and Development, IIM Ahmedabad Empirical Industrial Organization in Agri-Food Sector, SLU Uppsala, Sweden |
Year | Articles |
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2020 | Money, Land or self-employment? Understanding preference heterogeneity in landowners’ choices for compensation under land acquisition in India, (with Patil et al.), Land Use Policy, Vol. 97 (104802), 2020 [Click here] |
2019 | Food waste due to retail power in supply chains: Evidence from Sweden (with Mattias Eriksson), Global Food Security, Vol. 20, pp. 1-8, 2019 [Click here] |
2018 |
Environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified soy feed in Sweden (with Eriksson et al.), Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 176, pp. 46-53, 2018 [Click here] The tree structure - A general framework for food waste quantification in food services (with Eriksson et al.), Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 130, pp. 140-151, 2018 [Click here] |
2017
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Are small firms willing to pay for improved power supply? Evidence from a contingent valuation study in India (with Y. Goyal, J. Rommel and J. Sagebiel), Energy Policy, Vol. 109, pp. 659-665, 2017 [Click here] Rehabilitation myths? How transaction costs reduce farmer welfare after land acquisition (with V. Patil), Journal of South Asian Development, Vol 12 (1), pp. 1-17, 2017 [Click here] Take-back agreements in the perspective of food waste generation at the supplier-retailer interface (with M. Eriksson, L. Mattsson and A. Istamov), Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 122, pp. 83-93, 2017 [Click here] The role of access mechanisms in effective rehabilitation of displaced farmers due to development projects (with Vikram Patil and Vinish Kathuria), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 53 (4), pp. 548-564, 2017 [Click here] |
2016 |
Modeling transaction costs for a sustainable energy policy: A review and illustration, in ‘Economic Modeling, Analysis and Policy for Sustainability'. Eds. Anandajit Goswami and Arabinda Mishra, IGI Global, 2016 (Book Chapter) [Click here] The effect of regulatory governance on efficiency of thermal power generation in India: A stochastic frontier analysis (with Vinish Kathuria), Energy Policy, Vol. 89, pp. 11-24, 2016 [Click here] |
2015 | Gas based power generation in India: Lessons from a transaction cost analysis (with Vinish Kathuria), Energy Strategy Reviews, Vol. 8, pp. 1-7, 2015 [Click here] |
2014 |
The transaction costs driving captive power generation: Evidence from India (with Vinish Kathuria), Energy Policy, Vol. 75, pp. 179-188, 2014 [Click here] |
2012 |
Costing adaptation to climate change impacts in forest ecosystems: A case study with experiences from India (with E.Ojea, B.B. Agarwal and P.K. Joshi), International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 323-341, 2012 [Click here] Setting targets for costing ecosystem adaptation (with E. Ojea, B.B. Agarwal, P.K. Joshi and Anil Markandya), The International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Vol.24, Issue 1, pp. 27-45, 2012 [Click here] Forest Ecosystems (with Ojea, Agarwal and Joshi) in ‘Costing Adaptation: Preparing for Climate Change in India'. Eds. Anil Markandya and Arabinda Mishra, TERI Press, 2010 (Book Chapter) |
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Performance Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (Part 1): Governance Analysis, Center for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India [Access here]. Food Chain Sustainability in Sweden: Value Creation through Research? Report No. 168, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), ISSN 1401-405X Group Captive Power Plants in Small and Medium-Scale Industrial Clusters in India, ‘Financing Sustainable Development: Ideas for Action'. Eds. Mahmoud Mohieldin and Djordjija Petkoski, World Bank Group, Washington DC, 2015 |
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Do rehabilitation measures from land acquisition match with farmers' expectations? Results from a contingent ranking experiment (with V. Patil and V. Kathuria) (under review) The methodological pragmatism of Coase (with Ning Wang) (under review) Can citizens influence severity of regulatory sanctions in developing countries? The case of Andhra Pradesh pollution regulator (with Keerthi Kiran Bandru and Jens Rommel) (under review) Impact of Regulatory Governance on Indian Thermal Generation: A Stochastic Frontier Approach (with Vinish Kathuria), USAEE Working Paper No. 14-155 An Empirical Transaction Cost Model of Firm's Decision to Make or Buy Electricity (with Vinish Kathuria), USAEE Working Paper No. 13-134 Costs of Governance and The Problem of Private Investment in the Indian Power Generation Sector (with Vinish Kathuria), USAEE Working Paper No. 13-110 Information, Regulatory Commitment and the Investment Dilemma (with Christian Kimmich), Jerusalem Papers on Regulation and Governance Working Paper No. 51, The Hebrew University |
Conference Presentations |
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Year |
Conferences |
2019 |
Community Attributes and Climate Adaptation in Complex Socio-Ecological Systems: A Case Study of Top Down Policies in the Drought-Prone Kutch Region of India, XVII Biennial IASC-Conference ‘In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation, and Action', July 1-5, 2019, Lima, Peru 4th United Nations - Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN) FABLE Meeting, June 4-7,2019, Bogota, Colombia |
2018 |
3rd United Nations - Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN) FABLE Meeting, December 3-6, 2018, Potsdam, Germany Information Institutions, Citizen Participation and Environmental Governance in India, 5th World Interdisciplinary Network of Institutional Research (WINIR), September 14-17, Hong Kong Food waste due to coercive power in supply chains: Evidence from Sweden, 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), July 28 - August 02, 2018, Vancouver, Canada 2nd United Nations - Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN) FABLE Meeting, June 6-9, 2018, Vienna, Austria |
2017 |
1st United Nations - Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN) FABLE Meeting, December 6-8, 2017, Vienna, Austria Food waste due to coercive power in supply chains: Evidence from Sweden, 3rd Global Food Security Conference, December, 3-6, 2017, Cape Town, South Africa |
2016
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Transaction costs and farmer marginalization in land acquisition, 16th World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, March 14-18, 2016, The World Bank, Washington DC, US The role of access mechanisms in effective rehabilitation of farmers displaced due to development projects, 16th World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, March 14-18, 2016, The World Bank, Washington DC, US |
2015 |
Transaction costs and farmer marginalization in land acquisition, 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), August 8-14, 2015, University of Milan, Italy The role of access to de jure rights in resettlement of displaced farmers, 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), June 18-20, 2015, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US Have independent regulatory agencies improved the efficiency of thermal power generation in India? A stochastic frontier analysis, 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), June 18-20, 2015, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US |
2014 |
The Methodological Pragmatism of Coase, presented at the Inaugural WINIR Conference, September 11-14, 2014 at Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, UK The Organization of Energy Supply: Experiences from a Field Application of Transaction Cost Economics, presented at the Seminar on Economic Governance in Agri-Food System, July 10th, 2014 at University of Perugia, Italy Social Information in Collective Action: An Experimental Approach, presented at the 5th Workshop on the Workshop (WOW5), June 18-21, 2014 Indiana University Bloomington, US The Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Meetings, January 3-5, 2014 Philadelphia, US |
2013 |
The Role of Recordkeeping and Broadcast in Shaping the Delta Parameters, presented at the Workshop Mini-conference, Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, December 16, 2013, Indiana University Bloomington, US Information, Regulatory Commitment and the Investment Dilemma (with Christian Kimmich), presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), June 20-22, 2013, Florence, Italy Vertical Integration as Firm Response to Electricity Shortages: Does Transaction Cost Economics Sufficiently Explain? (with Vinish Kathuria), presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE), June 16-19, 2013, Daegu, South Korea |
2012 | Electricity ‘Make or Buy' for Manufacturing Firms, The Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis, December 9-15, 2012, Santiago, Chile |
2011 |
Transaction Cost Regulation, presented at "Comparative Sub National State Climate Policies - Germany, India and the USA" organized by the Environmental Policy Research Centre, Free University Berlin, October 13-14, 2011, New Delhi, India Barriers to Governance in Evolving Power Generation Markets, presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE), June 19-23, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis, July 5-11, 2011, Moscow, Russia European School on New Institutional Economics (ESNIE), May 15-21, 2011, Corsica, France |
Year | Awards & Honors |
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2016
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Won Swedish Research Council's (FORMAS) grant competition worth 1 million USD, to conduct research on ‘The dynamics of urban sprawl: land-use changes, food supply and sustainable agricultural production systems in the arid and semi-arid zones' (co-team Carl-Johan Lagerkvist and Assem Abouhatab) |
2015 | The World Bank and Wharton Business School Ideas for Action (I4A) competition on development finance: Finalist and ‘Honorable Mention' (selected in top 5% from over 430 teams across 130 countries) |
2010 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Fellow |
2011-13 | OFID-IAEE 2011 and 2013 scholarships for the Annual Conferences of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE) |
Editorials and Interviews
Integrated land acquisition is key to a pandemic-resilient economy [BLoC, The Hindu Business Line, April 18, 2020]
The Draft National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights: Can It Be An Important Next Step In Reducing Land Conflicts, Investment Risks? [Business World, April 10, 2020]
Seeds of hope [The Week, February 08, 2020]
Pathways to healthy diet, sustainable land-use [Hindu Business Line, September 11, 2019]
Agribusiness: Professionals on the Farm Field [Business World, January 02, 2019]
Budget 2019: Government To Provide Rs 6,000 Each To 12 Crore Farmer Families [Bloomberg Quint, February 01, 2019]
Better execution key for crop insurance scheme [Times of India, July 7, 2018]
Can blockchain technology be an answer to India's land governance woes? [Live Mint, October 23, 2017]
Coverage
Time ripe for land reform: IIM-A working paper [Times of India, June 10, 2020]
Infrastructure potholes slow eager pedal tribe [Times of India, June 3, 2019]
IIM Ahmedabad joins multi-nation consortium to work on food security [Hindustan Times, Sep 08, 2019]
PMFBY needs urgent repair: government study [Down To Earth, Nov, 06, 2018]
India's flagship crop insurance scheme a big leap, but needs fixes [Hindustan Times, Nov 04, 2018]
Consulting and Research |
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Year | Projects |
2016-present
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Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Gujarat [Click here] Implications of Covid-19 on Gujarat state from energy, emissions and climate change perspectives [with the support of Department of Climate Change, Government of Gujarat] Managing Water Risks in Wheat Production in Madhya Pradesh, India [Funded by The Nature Conservancy, TNC] UN-SDSN FABLE : Designing Evidence-Based Pathways for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use and Energy (Led by United Nations-Sustainable Development Solutions Network, UN-SDSN and International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA). Performance Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) Crop Insurance Scheme in India (Funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer's Welfare, Government of India) The Dynamics of Urban Sprawl: Land-use changes, Food Supply and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems in the Arid and Semi-arid Zones (Funded by Swedish Research Council, FORMAS) [Click here] Farmer Behavior in Dairy Value Chains: Experimental Insights from Peri-Urban Hyderabad (Funded by SLU Global-ICRISAT) [Click here] MISTRA Biotech II: Task 3.8 – Price Transmission, Trait Selection and Value Chain Analysis (Funded by Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) [Click here] |
Previous |
Food Chain Sustainability in Sweden: Value Creation through Research? – A Background Report (Funded by Acturum Development AB, Södertalje) Farmer Behavior in Dairy Value Chains: Experimental Insights from Peri-Urban Hyderabad (in collaboration with ICRISAT, Hyderabad) COSUS Food Waste: WP 7 – Improved Handling of Suboptimal Food in Supply Chains (Funded by European Union) MISTRA Biotech I: CP5 – Swedish Competitiveness (Funded by Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) WP 3.2.A Energy Management, BMBF-Megacities Sustainable Hyderabad Project, HU Berlin, Germany (Funded by German Ministry of Education and Research) |