Teaching Staff

Department of Economics

Dr. Samik Ray
Designation Associate Professor
Qualification M. Sc. , M. Phil., Ph.D.
Contact +91 -98314-14482
E-mail id samik@seramporecollege.ac.in

kimasray@yahoo.co.in

Area of Specialisation :

STATISTICS and ECONOMETRICS

Past Attachment :

St Xavier’s College, Kolkata

Research Interest :

Economics of Common Property Resource Management, Joint Forest Management and Collective action in Fisheries Management, Other areas of Resource and Environmental Economics

Selected Publications :

    1. ‘Construction of District Development Index in West Bengal’, published in EPW
    2. Ahmed Z. Afify , Haitham M. Yousof , Morad Alizadeh , Indranil Ghosh and Samik Ray (2015): The Marshal-Olkin Transmuted-G Family of Distributions, submitted in Applied Mathematical Modeling
    3. Indranil Ghosh and Samik Ray (2015): A note on constructing bivariate Kumaraswamy type distributions via copula, accepted for publication in Proceedings of IMBIC, Vol 4, (ISBN 978-81-925832-3-5.)
    4. Samik Ray(2016):Role of transacion cost in Joint forest management:A brief review based on empirical realities”, accepted for publication as chapter in an edited ISBN volume(forthcoming).
    5. Title: Some alternative bivariate Kumaraswamy type distributions via copula with application in risk management,by Indranil Ghosh & Samik Ray (2016),published in Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Taylor & Francis),ISSN: 1559-8608 (Print) 1559-8616 (Online).

Research Projects :

  1. Completed and submitted one UGC Research Project(MRP) in the year 2010 on Common Pool Natural Resource base and Rural livelihood in West Bengal.
  2. College of Arts and Science Faculty Pilot Grant Award, 2016 : Graduate Research Council, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, based on the proposal of a Collaborative research proposal Statistical analysis of tails of distributions for modeling rare events with a particular emphasis on Climate change. Principal Investigator: Dr. Indranil Ghosh, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA and Co-Principal Investigator : Dr. Samik Ray,Serampore College, Serampore, West Bengal, India.