Our Faculty

  • Assistant Professor (Grade – I)

Saakshi

Assistant Professor (Grade – I)
  • Ph.D. in Economics from Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
  • Masters in Economics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
  • Bachelors from Rani Durgavati Vishvidayalaya (RDVV)

Saakshi Jha holds a doctoral degree in economics from the Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. She obtained her Master’s degree in Economics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), and her undergraduate degree is from St. Aloysius College (Jabalpur). She is the recipient of Lt. Prof. Mulk Raj Gold medal in her undergraduate and has been awarded for “”Outstanding Ph.D. thesis”” in Ph.D. Her teaching interest lies in Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Public Policy. Her research mainly focuses on Macroeconomics and Monetary policy.

Teaching Areas

  • Macroeconomics
  • Time series econometrics

Research Area

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary Economics
  • Econometrics

Professional Affiliation

  • The Indian Association of Law and Economics (IALE)

Publications

  • An analysis of heterogeneity in inflation expectations across cities in India. (with Sohini Sahu). Journal of Economic Studies, 46(5), 1116- 1136, 2019.
  • Epidemiology of inflation expectations and internet search- An analysis for India (with Sohini Sahu and Siddhartha Chattopadhyay). Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (forthcoming), 2019. doi: 10.1007/s11403-019-00255-4, 2019, Springer.
  • Estimation of unobserved inflation expectations in India using state-space model (with Siddhartha Chattopadhyay and Sohini Sahu). Theoretical Economics Letters, 9(5), 1480-1488, 2019.