Department of Economics

Faculty Profile - Dr. Joyjit Dhar

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Dr. Joyjit Dhar
Dr. Joyjit Dhar
Associate Professor


Educational Qualification

 

Degree Pass out from
Ph.D. Calcutta University
M.Phil. Kalyani University
NET with JRF UGC
M.A. Kalyani University

 

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Previous College Served

College Name Served From Served Till
Hooghly Mohsin College 20.10.2001 28.02.2009
Krishnagar Govt. College 02.03.2009 03.05.2019
A. B. N. Seal College 06.05.2019 22.08.2025

Additional Teaching Experience:

  • Invited faculty in Civil Service Study Centre, Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Govt. of West Bengal (2016-2018).
Research Area/Projects
  • UGC sponsored MRP on “Investment Management of Mutual Funds in India” (2005-07).
Field of Specialization
  • Econometrics and Financial Economics.
Medal/Scholarship/Award
Orientation Course/Faculty Induction Programme/Refreshers Course
  • Orientation Programme: Organised by UGC Academic Staff College, Jadavpur University from 01.03.2025 to 29.03.2025
  • Refresher Course in Economics: Organised by UGC Academic Staff College, University of Calcuttaand Department of Economics, University of Calcutta from 19.02.2008 to 10.03.2008
  • Refresher Course in Economics: Organised by UGC Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta and Department of Economics, University of Calcutta from 11.07.2011 to 30.07.2011
  • Refresher Course in Economics: Organised by UGC Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta and Department of Economics, University of Calcutta from 30.03.2015 to 22.04.2015
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Seminars/Conferences/Workshops

Participation in Training Courses:

  • Capacity Building Workshop on Big Data, Economics & Finance (October 20-26, 2016) organized by Dept. of Economics, Presidency University.
  • Capacity Building Workshop on Econometrics and Finance (January 14-19,2016) organized by Dept. of Economics, Presidency University.
  • International workshop on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2012) (December 27-29, 2012) organized by Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur.
  • Financial Research Workshop (November 16-17, 2012) organized by the Financial Research and Trading Laboratory (Finance Lab) at IIM, Calcutta.
  • National Level workshop on Time Series Econometrics and Its Application (April 4-9,2011) jointly organized by the Dept. of Economics, University of Burdwan and Indian Econometric Society
  • International workshop on Quantitative Finance (December 17-20, 2009) jointly organized by IGIDR (India), IIT Kanpur (India) and Lally School, RPI (USA).
  • State level workshop on Quantitative Appraisal of Economic issues (October 12-16, 2009) jointly organized by Dept. of Economics, University of Calcutta and Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.

Invited Lecture/Paper Presentation:

  • Investment Management of Mutual Funds: Evidence of Timing and Selectivity from India during 1997-2003, organized by IGIDR, Mumbai, March 11-12, 2010.
  • MARKET TIMING ABILITIES OF MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS IN INDIA DURING 2000-2012, organized by IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, December 19-20, 2012.
  • DO MUTUAL FUNDS TIME THE MARKET? EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN CAPITAL MARKET, organized by IGIDR, Mumbai, December 22-24, 2013.
  • Portfolio Return, Risk and Market Timing: A Non-parametric Approach, organized by Indian Institute of Capital Markets (Mumbai) & Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics (Pune), December18-19, 2014.
Articles Published

Journal:

  • Dhar, J. 2007. Higher education in India under GATS. Academic Journal of Hooghly Mohsin College 2, no.2: 31-36. (ISSN No. 0973-6212)
  • Dhar, J. 2013. Stock selection skills of Indian mutual fund managers during 2000-2012. IOSR Journal of Business &Management 10, no.1: 79-87 (ISSN NO.2319-7668)
    DOI.org/10.9790/487x-1017987
  • Dhar, J. and K. Mandal. 2014. Market timing abilities of Indian mutual fund managers: An empirical analysis. Decision (Springer), IIM CALCUTTA, 41, no.3: 299-311 (ISSN NO.0304-0941)
    DOI. 10.1007/s40622-014-0036-2
  • Dhar J. and R. P. Sengupta. 2015. Portfolio return, risk & market timing: A non-parametric approach, Special Issue of International Journal of Financial Management 5, no.2: April 2015 (ISSN NO. 2229-5682)
    DOI.org/10.21863/ijfm/2015.5.2.009
  • Dhar J. and R. P. Sengupta. 2016. Risk, return and market timing: A conditional performance benchmarking model, The IUP Journal of Financial Risk Management 13, no.2: 7-20 (ISSN NO.0972-916X)
  • Dhar, J. and K. Mandal. 2019. Persistence in performance of Indian mutual fund schemes: An evaluation, The Journal of Institute of Public Enterprise 42, no.2: 92-116 (ISSN NO. 0971-1864)
  • Dhar, J. 2020. Performance Evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds Schemes with respect to Theoretical Performance Evaluation Measures, Vidyasagar University Journal of Commerce, no.25: 72-97 (ISSN NO. 0973-5917)
  • Dhar, J. 2023. Expense Management of Mutual Funds Schemes in India, B. N. Seal Journal of Science, no.1: 26-38 (ISSN NO. 0975-5624)

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Books Published/Chapters in book Published
  • Dhar, J. 2013. Investment Management of Mutual Funds: Evidence of Timing & Selectivity from India during 2000-2012. In An Application on Computational & Financial Econometrics, ed. R. P. Pradhan, 161-173, proceedings of the International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics organized by Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, published by Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2013, ISBN: 978-93-82951-36-0
  • Dhar, J. 2023. Downside Risk Analysis of Indian mutual Fund Schemes: A VaR based Analysis. In Holistic Research Perspectives, Vol.10, 11-24, ed. KVJ. Prof. Dr. R. Ganesan, published by National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED), Tamil Nadu, 2023, ISBN: 978-81-954930-2-9
Membership in the Society
  • Life Member, Bengal Economic Association.
Other Notable Activities
  • Chairperson in a session on Social Science in 4th Regional Science & Technology Congress-2019, West Bengal (Northern Region) at Alipurduar College, West Bengal.
  • Reviewer: Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier).
  • Reviewer of the edited volume on Contemporary Issues on Globalization & Sustainable Development, Department of Humanities andSocial Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.
  • Discussant in the conference on “Empirical Issues in International Trade & Finance” on January 10-11, 2013 at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata.
  • Member of academic wing of Research & Evaluation Committee of the Sarva Siksha Mission of Govt. of India (2006-2008) under the Nodal centre, Hooghly Mohsin College.
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