Selected Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Sujana Kabiraj, and Subrata Majumder: Subnational Governments and COVID Management: An Exploration, Economic Modelling , Elsevier, (R&R second round) Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Aishna Sharma (2022): ?Technology-integrated Pedagogy, Learning Outcomes and Retention: Can Public?Private Partnerships Play a Role in Primary Education in India??, published in Studies in Microeconomics, Sage Publications, UK, https://doi.org/10.1177/23210222221111653 Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Sahana Roy Chowdhury: Management of COVID 19 in India: Can Subnational Finances Tell a Story? IMI Konnect, Volume 9(2), June 2020. Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Debraj Bagchi: ?In Search of Untapped Revenues in Indian Cities: A Case for Municipal Corporation of Delhi?, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol 51, Number 1, Winter 2017, Pp 411-421. Simanti Bandyopadhyay: ?Financial Management and Service Delivery: A Non parametric Analysis for Indian Cities?, Annals of Regional Science, May 2015, DOI 10.1007/s00168-015-0673-1. Simanti Bandyopadhyay: 'Local government finance: challenges in revenue- raising at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi', Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Issue 16: May 2015, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/cjlg Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Debraj Bagchi: ?Untapped Potential for User Charges in India?s Capital City: Economics or Political Will??, Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2015, Sydney, Pp 1322-1337, April 2015, 978-0-9925622-1-2, https://www.aabss.org.au/conference/acbss-2015-sydney/proceedings/all-papers

Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Harsahib Singh: Chapter on ?Foundations of Public Expenditure Management: Theories and Concepts? in? Research Handbook on Public Financial Management to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing, London, United Kingdom, Forthcoming. Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Firdousi Naher, Aishna Sharma (2022) ?How Smart Are the Cities in South Asia?: A Comparative Assessment of Kolkata and Dhaka?,, Springer International. https://link.springer.com/book/9789811922985. Publication Date: May 2022. Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Mousumi Dutta (eds.) (2019): ?Opportunities and Challenges in Development: Essays for Sarmila Banerjee?, Springer International. ISBN 978-981-13-9981-7 The book is a collection of 25 original research articles, peer reviewed by double blind method, by leading academics from all over the world. Online Publication date: September 2019; https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811399800 https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085834884&origin=resultslist&txGid=da374816244ba2d60d25d237d67a18db&featureToggles=FEATURE_NEW_DOC_DETAILS_EXPORT:1

Recent Working Papers Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Aishna Sharma (2021): ?Technology Integrated Pedagogy, Learning Outcomes, Retention: Can Public Private Partnership Play a Role in School Education in India?? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3875660 Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Aishna Sharma (2021), ?Research, Teaching, Performance: An Analysis Using Frontiers and Meta Frontiers?, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3835890 . Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Sujana Kabiraj and Subrata Majumder (2021): ?Performances in COVID 19 Management Across Countries: Do Subnational Finances Matter?? International Center for Public Policy Working Paper 21-10 May 2021.https://icepp.gsu.edu/2021/05/21/performances-in-covid-19-management-across-countries-do-subnational-finances-matter/, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3836319. Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Aishna Sharma and Tushar Bhageria (2020): ?Teaching Efficiency in Higher Education: A Non parametric Analysis for Indian Institutions? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3835608 Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Aishna Sharma (2020): ?Ranking Frameworks and Quality of Higher Educational Institutions: Some Missing Links?, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3835899 Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Firdousi Naher and Aishna Sharma (2020): ?Towards Sustainable Cities: Lessons from Urban Decentralization in India and Bangladesh?, International Center for Public Policy, Working Paper 20-11, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, June 2020, https://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2020/06/paper2011.pdf Simanti Bandyopadhyay and Aishna Sharma (2020): ?Assessing the Performance of Kolkata Municipal Corporation: Implications for Service Delivery?, International Center for Public Policy, Working Paper 20-02, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, March 2020. https://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2020/03/paper2002.pdf

Invited Lectures (Selected) Invited Speaker, National Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency, Rconomics Department, Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi, November 5, 2022. Invited Speaker, ?Revenue Generation, Expenditure Management, Service Delivery and some missing links: Revisiting the Concept of Performance Evaluation of Governments? in a Workshop on Data Envelopment Analysis for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, 12-14 January 2020 organised by Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, Delhi. Invited Chair, Technical Session in an International Conference on Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity in Emerging Economies December 18-19, 2019, in South Asian University organized by Faculty of Economics, South Asian University. Invited Speaker, ?Urban Finance and Service Delivery, Major Challenges in India?, Urban Fellows Program in Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS),Bangalore (February 11-12, 2019). Invited Chair, Session on ?Sustainable Development Goals?, under the theme ?Economics of Sustainable Development?, in International Conference on Business, Economics and Sustainable Development, organised by TERI School of Advanced Studies, during January 17-18, 2019 in Delhi. Invited Speaker, a series of lectures (September 12 and 19, 2017) on Municipal Taxation in India: Major Components and Challenges? in the Eleventh International HRD Program on Municipal Finance, Expenditure Management and Performance Outcomes. This was a four week training/capacity building program (August 28 -September 23, 2017) for government officials of eight countries organized by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, in Society for Development Studies, India Habitat Centre, Delhi. Invited Discussant, paper titled ?Examining the Eco-Macroeconomic Performance Index of India: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach?, in a Two-day conference on Papers in Public Economics and Policy organized by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, Date: 23-24th March, 2017. Conferences (Selected) Paper titled ?Human Capital Formation, Employability and COVID 19: Insights from Higher Educational Institutions? , with Aishna Sharma and Tushar Bhageria in 32nd European Conference on Operational Research, EURO 2022, July 3-6, 2022, Espoo, Finland. Paper titled ?Teaching Efficiency in Higher Education: A Non parametric Analysis for Indian Institutions?, with Aishna Sharma and Tushar Bhageria, in 22nd (virtual)Conference of International Federation of Operational Research Society (IFORS), August 2021. Paper titled ?Research, Teaching, Performance: An Analysis Using Frontiers and Meta Frontiers?, with Aishna Sharma, in (virtual)North American Productivity Workshop, International Society for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, June 2021. Paper titled ?Performances of COVID 19 Management Across Countries: Do Subnational Finances Matter??, with Sujana Kabiraj and Subrata Majumder, in (virtual)North American Productivity Workshop, International Society for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, June 2021. Paper titled "New Dimensions of Performance Evaluations of Governments: Sustainability of Indian Cities" in North American Productivity Workshop XI (virtual)during June 8-12, 2020 in Miami Business School. Presented a paper titled ?Performance Evaluation of Governments: Some New Thoughts and Empirics? in an International Conference on Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity in Emerging Economies December 18-19, 2019, in South Asian University organized by Faculty of Economics, South Asian University. Participant, Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Measurement using R by Dr. Oleg Badunenko, University of University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, during 1- 2 November 2019 organized by Faculty of Economics, South Asian University. Participant, Workshop on Spatial Econometrics in Presidency University, Kolkata, during Jan 3-5, 2019. Participant, Workshop on Non parametric Econometrics, organized by Economics Area, IIM Calcutta during August 13-16, 2018. Presented a paper titled ?Untapped Potential for User Charges in India?s Capital City: Economics or Political Will?? (co-author Debraj Bagchi) in Australasian Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2015, Sydney, during April 13-14, 2015.

Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Firdousi Naher, Aishna Sharma: "Urban Decentralisation and Its Impact In South Asia: A Comparative Study Of Dhaka And Kolkata", Project Report Published by Bureau of Economics Research, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, July 2020.

(Selected) Co-ordinator, Urban Decentralisation and Its Impact In South Asia: A Comparative Study of Dhaka and Kolkata?, Project Financed by Bureau of Economics Research, Dhaka University, Bangladesh. with Firdousi Naher and Aishna Sharma.

Advised City Corporations of Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 2019- June 2020.

Senior Economist, A Study on State Finances in Bihar, funded by Fifth State Finance Commission of Bihar, India, September 2014-April 2015.

Principal Researcher, A Program on Capacity Building, Knowledge Dissemination and Research on Urbanization in India (Municipal Finance Component), Funded by Ministry of Urban Development, India, September 2012-September 2013.

Consultant and Chief Researcher for Fourth Tamil Nadu State Finance Commission, Analysis of Financial Position of ULBs in the state of Tamil Nadu, January 2011- August 2011.

Project Leader, Appraisal of Monitoring and Implementation of UIDSSMT Reforms in Maharashtra, Project funded by Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, August 2010-January 2012.

Project Leader, Functions and Finances of Urban Local Bodies in Jharkhand, Project Funded by Government of Jharkhand, March 2009-May 2010.

Senior Economist, National Strategy for Urban Poor funded by UNDP and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty, Government of India, with O.P. Mathur, August 2008- December 2008.

Senior Economist, Municipal Study of India funded by Asian Development Bank, with O.P Mathur, November 2009-January 2010.

Research Co-coordinator, Fiscal health of Indian Cities funded by World Bank, with M. Govinda. Rao, December 2006-July 2008.

Economist, Strengthening Fiscal Capacity of Indian Cities: Implications for Revenue, Service Delivery and Economic Activity (funded by World Bank), with Somik Lall, September 2005-October 2006.

Economist, Costs of Urban Infrastructure: Evidence from Indian Cities (funded by SANEI) , with Kala Sridhar and O P Mathur, July 2004-November 2004.

Economist, Sikkim State Development Report, with Dr. N. J. Kurian, funded by Planning Commission, India, February 2004- November 2007.

Consultant, Fiscal Decentralisation in Kerala (funded by World Bank), with Prof M.A. Oommen of Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, May 2002-December 2002.