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Professor Mitra did his BSc and MSc at the University of Calcutta before obtaining his PhD from Cornell University. He was previously a lecturer in the Univeristy of York and, before arriving at St Andrews, Professor at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is the Director of the Centre for Dynamic macroeconomic Analysis here at the University of St Andrews. He has obtained an ESRC grant  "Macroeconomic Policy Changes and Adaptive Learning" (Ref RES-062-23-2617) with an award value of £259,000 at Full Economic Costing effective October 2010 for a period of three years.

• EC4203 Contemporary Issues
• EC5605 Monetary Policy (PMT)

Macro and Monetary Economics

• (2009) "Anticipated Fiscal Policy and Adaptive Learning" (with George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja), Journal of Monetary Economics, 56, 930-953.
• (2007) "Determinacy, Learnability, and Monetary Policy Inertia" (with James Bullard), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 35, 1177-1212.
• (2006) "Learning Stability in Economies with Heterogenous Agents" (with Seppo Honkapohja), Review of Economic Dynamics, 9, 284-309.
• (2005) "Performance of Inflation Targeting Based on Constant Interest Rate Projections" (with Seppo Honkapohja), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29, 1867-1892.
• (2005) "Performance of Monetary Policy with Internal Central Bank Forecasting" (with Seppo Honkapohja), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29, 627-658.
• (2005) "Is more data better?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 56, 263-272.
• (2004) "Are Non-Fundamental Equilibria Learnable in Models of Monetary Policy?" (with Seppo Honkapohja), Journal of Monetary Economics, 51, 1743-1770.
• (2003) "Desirability of Nominal GDP Targeting Under Adaptive Learning" Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 35, 197-220.
• (2003) "Learning with Bounded Memory in Stochastic Models" (with Seppo Honkapohja), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 27, 1437-1457.
• (2002) "Learning about Monetary Policy Rules" (with James Bullard), Journal of Monetary Economics, 49, 1105-1129.
• (1998) "On Capital Accumulation Paths in a Neoclassical Stochastic Growth Model," Economic Theory 11, 457-464.

• "Learning of Steady States in Nonlinear Models when Shocks follow a Markov chain" (with Seppo Honkapohja), in Schultz and Vind (eds), Institutions, Equilibria, and Efficiency: Essays in Honour of Birgit Grodal, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
• "Monetary Policy with Internal Central Bank Forecasting. A Case of Heterogenous Information" (with Seppo Honkapohja) in From National Gain to Global Markets, Essays in Honour of Paavo Okko on His 60th Birthday. Edited by Mika Widgren, 2004.