Dr Debdulal Mallick

Present Position: Lecturer in Economics

Phone: +61 3 925 17808
Email: debdulal.mallick@deakin.edu.au
Campus:Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications:
BSS. Dhaka MA Delhi PhD Emory

Commenced at Deakin: 2007

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, Micro-credit, Panel Data, Spectral Analysis

Forthcoming
'BRAC’s Contribution to the GDP of Bangladesh', in NGOs in Bangladesh edited by Farida Khan, University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Current research projects
Working Papers

Marginal and Interaction Effects in the Ordered Response Models
The Role for the Elasticity of Substitution in Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Test of the de La Grandville Hypothesis
The Substitution Elasticity, Growth Theory, and The Low-Pass Filter Panel Model (with Robert Chirinko)
The Elasticity of Derived Demand, Factor Substitution, and Product Demand: Corrections to Hicks' Formula and Marshall's Four Rules (with Robert Chirinko), CESifo Working Paper No. 1742
Marginal Product of Capital: A Persistent International Puzzle (with Robert Chirinko).
The Fisher/Cobb-Douglas Paradox, Factor Shares, and Cointegration (with Robert Chirinko), CESifo Working Paper No. 1998
Are the Female-headed Households more food insecure? Evidence from Bangladesh (with Mohammad Rafi)
Growth and Slowdown of Nations: What Role for the Elasticity of Substitution?
Reconciling Different Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labor (with Robert S. Chirinko)
Cultivating Shareholder Value: Balancing Short-term Profitability and Long-term Sustainability (with Katherine Lemon and Rajendra Srivastava)

Work in progress

On the leakage in Baxter-King band-pass filter (with Robert Chirinko)
Optimal Monetary Policy in a Multi-Sector Small Open Economy (with Zheng Liu)
Macroeconomic Stability in Australia: Good Practices, Changing Structure, or Smaller Exogenous Shocks?
Do the extreme poor benefit from micro-credit? Evidence from Bangladesh
The effect of micro-credit on the informal credit market
The Pay-off of Brand Building Investments in Early Stage of Product Lifestyle: Some Empirical Evidence (with Rajendra Srivastava, and Sundar Bharadwaj)

Affiliations: Professional/Academic

American Economic Association, Econometric Society

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin

MAE202 National Economic Policy
MAE302 Macroeconomics of Open Economies
MAE412 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy