Prof. Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay

Faculty of Economics and Business

Lambung Mangkurat University, Indonesia

Distinguished Professor

Email: dr_biswa@yahoo.com; biswa.bhattacharyay@gmail.com

Qualifications

1979 Ph.D., Iowa State University, USA

1975 M.S., Indian Statistical Institute, India

1974 B.S., Indian Statistical Institute, India

Publications (Selected)

Journals

1. Bhattacharyay, B. N., Roy, D., & Kumar, N. (2025). Determinants of Financial Inclusion in India: Role of Digital Financial Services. South Asian Journal of Management, 11(1).
2. Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2025). Financial Sector Development in Brunei Darussalam: Trends, Prospects and Challenges. Brunei Darussalam’s Economic Transition in a Shifting Global Asia, 95-126.
3. Bhattacharyay, B. N., & Bhattacharyay, M. (2022). Financial Sector Development in Brunei Darussalam: Depth, Access, and Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis (No. 9960). CESifo Working Paper.
4. Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2021). Managing climate-related financial risk: Prospects and challenges. New Frontiers in Conflict Management and Peace Economics: With a Focus on Human Security, 39-56.
5. Bhattacharyay, B., & Bhattacharyay, M. (2020). Inequality, poverty reduction and quality of development in China and India: lessons learned. International Journal of Development and Conflict, 10(2), 198-226.
6. Bapat, D., Bhattacharyay, B. N., & Bhattacharyay, M. (2019). Strengthening Financial Inclusion in Rural and Urban India 1. In Development and Deprivation in the Indian Sub-continent (pp. 84-136). Routledge.
7. Bhattacharyay, B., & Bhattacharyay, M. (2018). A New Institutional Architecture for Managing and Financing Pan-Asian Infrastructure Connectivity. Theoretical Economics Letters, 8, 2831-2859.
8. Gangopadhyay, P., & Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2017). Does economic growth increase inequality?: An empirical analysis for ASEAN countries, China and India. In Inequality, Poverty and Development in India: Focus on the North Eastern Region (pp. 3-30). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
9. Bhattacharyay, B. N., & Bhattacharyay, M. (2017). Institutional architecture for financing Pan-Asian infrastructure connectivity.
10. Bhattacharyay, B. N., & Mukhopadhyay, K. (2015). A comprehensive economic partnership between India and Japan: Impact, prospects and challenges. Journal of Asian Economics, 39, 94-107.
11. Gangopadhyay, P., Rahman, M. A., & Bhattacharya, B. N. (2014). Are there any roles for social conformity and deviance in poverty? Insights from a field study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 19(4), 539-557.
12. Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2013). Determinants of bond market development in Asia. Journal of Asian Economics, 24, 124-137.
13. Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2012). Modes of Asian financial integration: Financing infrastructure. In Infrastructure for Asian connectivity (pp. 349-401). Edward Elgar Publishing.
14. Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2012). Estimating demand for infrastructure, 2010–2020. In Infrastructure for Asian connectivity (pp. 19-79). Edward Elgar Publishing.
15. Bhattacharyay, B. N. (2012). Seamless sustainable transport connectivity in Asia and the Pacific: prospects and challenges. International Economics and Economic Policy, 9(2), 147-189.
16. Nath Bhattacharyay, B. (2011). Macroprudential monitoring of financial crisis: an empirical framework. In Governance, Development and Conflict (pp. 71-121). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Books/Book Chapters

1. Chapter on Financial Sector Development in Brunei Darussalam: Trends, Prospects, and Challenges, in the book, The Transition of Brunei's Economy in a Shifting Global Asia, Asia in Transition (edited by Khalid Ahmed and Jetin Bruno) IAS-Springer Series, 2021.
2. Chapter on Managing Climate-Related Financial Risk: Prospects and Challenges, in the book, NEW FRONTIERS IN Conflict Management, Peace and Sustainability: With a Special Emphasis on Human Security (edited by Chatterji, M and Gangopadhyay, P.) Emerald Publishing House, 2020.
3. Chapter on Strengthening Financial Inclusion in Rural and Urban India in in the book, Development and Deprivation in the Indian Sub-continent, Lament Books, Kolkata, 2019.
4. Chapter on Does Economic Growth Increase Inequality? An Empirical Analysis for ASEAN Countries, China and India in the book, Inequality, Poverty and Development in India: Focus on the North-Eastern Region, Springer, Singapore, January 2018.
5. Chapter on “Strengthening Policies for Financing Transport Infrastructure Development in   Asia, in the book THE ECONOMICS OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING: THE (CHANGING) ROLE OF THE STATE, MIT Press, December 2015.
6. Chapter on Rebalancing Production in Asia in the book Rebalancing for Sustainable Growth in Asia, Springer and Asian Development Bank Institute, 2015.
7. How Can the Crisis Vulnerability of Emerging Economies be Reduced? Ifo Forschungsberichte No. 65, 04 Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, 2014, Munich.
8. Principal author/task manager of the book “ASEAN, PRC (China) and India: Great Transformation”, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank Institute, 2014.
9. Chapter on Resources and Environment Sustainability in India: A Comparative Study with People’s Republic of China In the book “Business Sustainability: Challenges and Issues”, Bloomsbury, 2015.
10. Editor and Principal author (3 chapters) of “Infrastructure for Pan-Asian Connectivity” (edited by Bhattacharyay, B., Kawai M. (ex-Dean ADBI), Nag R. (ex-Managing Director General, ADB), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), 2012.
11. Chapter on “Infrastructure Investment” in the ADB/ADBI’s Flagship Book ‘Rebalancing for Sustainable Growth: Asia’s Post Crisis Challenge”, ADB/ADBI Publication, 2012, Tokyo.
12. Chapter in Connecting South and East Asia for Pan-Asian Integration: Prospects and Challenges in the book “RENAISSANCE OF ASIA: Evolving Economic Relations Between South Asia and East Asia” (edited by Pradumna B Rana), World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc. NJ, USA and Imperial College Press, UK. September 2011.
13. Chapter 3 on “Macroprudential Monitoring of Financial Crisis: An Empirical Framework”, in the book “Governance, Development and Conflict”, (edited by Manas Chatterji et al), Volume 18, of the series, C Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Macmillan Publishing Solutions, London, UK, 2011.
14. Chapter 14 on “Infrastructure Connectivity for East Asia’s Economic Integration”, in the Book “The Economics of East Asian Integration: A Comprehensive Introduction to Regional Issues”, (edited by Fujita, M. et al), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), Aug., 2011.
15. Chapter on “Impact of Energy Infrastructure Investment in Commonwealth Asia Pacific Countries”, in the book “Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2010”, Henley Media Group, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK, 20 October, 2010.
16. Principal author/task manager of the book on “Infrastructure for a Seamless Asia” and ADB/ADBI’s pioneering Flagship Study “Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation) ADB/ADBI publications. Tokyo, September, 2009.
17. Chapter on “Achieving an Integrated ASEAN Economic Community: The Role of Infrastructure Development”, for book “ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint”, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Report No. 4, Singapore, 2009.
18. Chapter in the Book, “Towards Greater Economic Cooperation and Integration among BIMSTEC Countries and Japan in Money, Finance and Investment”, Anthem Press, Wimbledon Publishing Company, London, January, 2007.
19. Chapter on “Strengthening corporate governance in developing countries in Asia: prospects and problems” in the book, “Corporate governance: an international perspective”, Edited by Bala Shanmugam; and Mahendhiran Nair, Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance, Kuala Lumpur, 2004.

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