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Manu Bansal

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Assistant Professor, Economics & Business Environment
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Dr. Manu Bansal is an Agricultural Economist with a major research area as development economics off-shooting into agricultural economics, commodity markets, and intellectual property rights. He has expertise in econometric modeling and panel data analysis. He is well versed with statistical tools like R, STATA, and QGIS. He has ongoing research on varied topics like the impact of covid-19 on economic uncertainty in India, study on quality issues in agricultural commodity markets, and impact of rural roads on formal employment.

He is PhD in Economics and Social Science from IIM Bangalore. He received Mirae Assets Scholar Award 2019 for world-class impact-creating research.

He has worked as Project Associate at IIM Bangalore. Before PhD, he worked with NCDEX e-Markets Ltd. And SRIJAN NGO for 2 years. He has also done PGDM (Rural Management) from Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar.

  • Ph.D., IIM Bangalore, India, 2021
  • PGDM (Rural Management), XIMB, 2013
  • B. Tech (Electronics and Communication), Graphic Era Institute of Technology, 2011

November 2021 – Present: Assistant Professor (Economics and Business Environment), Indian Institute of Management Jammu, India

July 2021 – October 2021: Assistant Professor (Economics and International Business), LBSIM, Delhi, India

February 2021 – July 2021: Project Associate, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

January 2014 – June 2015: Assistant Manager (Business Development), NCDEX e-Markets Ltd., Delhi, India

May 2013 – January 2014: Project Executive, SRIJAN NGO, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India

  • Bansal, M. & Singh, R. (2024). Blessing of Geography: Impact of Geographical Indications on Agricultural Exports in India. IIMB Management Review, -(-), ---. (ABDC,Scopus), DOI : (Accepted)
  • Bansal, M. & Naresh, A. (2021). Effect of Rural Roads on Migration Patterns in India: An Instrumental Variable Approach. Empirical Economics Letters, 20(6), 1047-1056. (ABDC)
  • Bansal, M. & Singh, R. (2021). Blessing of Geography: Effect of Geographical Indications on Agricultural Exports in India. IMR Doctoral Conference IIM Bangalore Bengaluru, Karnataka, India:
  • Bansal, M. & Naresh, A. (2021). Effect of Rural Roads on Migration Patterns in India: An Instrumental Variable Approach. Doctoral Colloquium IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, India:
  • Bansal, M. & Singh, R. (2020). The Road to Agricultural Exports: Evidence from Rural Road Expansion in India. Spring 2020, Midwest International Trade Conference Clemson University Greenville, South Carolina:

Taught the following courses at the graduate and the under-graduate level at IIM Jammu:

  • Game Theory
  • Macroeconomics
  • Business Environment
  • Financial Derivatives
  • Managerial Economics
  • Indian and Global Economics
  • Indian and World History

 


Consultancy Projects

  • Consultancy Project with Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) titled “Overcoming issues of quality standardization in agricultural commodities to facilitate participation in derivatives”.
  • Consultancy Project with National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) titled “Study on Warehousing for Agricultural Produce in India”.
  • Consultancy Project with Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) titled “Facilitating Institutional Participation in Indian Commodity Market”.

  • Awarded Mirae Asset Scholar Award – 2019 with a fellowship of Rs. 50,000 per month for World-Class, Innovative and Impact Creating Research Work

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