The discipline of Economics, arguably, is at the core of all management principles. Indeed the basic principles of Marketing, Financial, Human Resources, Strategic, Organization Design and General management would easily find overlap with some Economic theory. It is then essential to understand the economic and policy environment within which businesses function.

The Economics department at IIM Indore is engaged in a variety of activities. The department is significantly involved in teaching in the integrated programme (IPM) where the curriculum is benchmarked to the best of three-year Economics honours programmes in India and abroad. The other significant commitment include teaching foundation and elective courses in the two-year MBA and Executive programmes.

The department has expertise in almost all the major areas in economics such as Applied Microeconometrics, High Dimensional econometrics, Game theory and Mechanism design, Choice theory and Welfare economics, Productivity and Efficiency analysis, Development economics, Poverty and Inequality, Institutional economics, Environmental economics, Formal and Informal Labour markets, Migration, Direct and Indirect tax, International Trade, Structural Transformation and Economic Growth, Fiscal federalism and Regional economics, International finance and Banking, Monetary Economics and so on.

The faculty members of the department are actively engaged in research and have multiple publications in the following journals.

Social Choice and Welfare, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, World Development, Economic Modelling, Journal of Development Studies, Review of Development Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Food Policy, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Operational Research Society, the Journal of Business Logistics, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Developing areas, Economic Papers, International Journal of Social Economics, Ecological Indicators, International Journal of Green Economics, Desalination and Water Treatment, Poverty and Public Policy, Review of Economics and Institutions, Keio Economic Studies, Indian Journal of Economics, Analytique, International Journal of Corporate Governance, Journal of Public Affairs, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Finance India, Bank Parikrama, Thunderbird International Business Review, World Economics.

The department regularly offers the following elective courses across different programmes.

International Finance, Macroeconomics of Developing Economies, Indian Economy and Public Policy, International Trade, Tax Management, Competition Policy, Economics of Strategic Interaction, Monetary macroeconomics, Game Theory, Market Design, Behavioural economics, Public Finance, Environmental economics.

The department also has a strong Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to PhD) where students go through a rigorous coursework comprising all the standard Graduate level courses like Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Advanced and Applied Econometrics, International Trade, Development Economics, Growth Theory, Monetary theory and Policy, and Game Theory. The usual duration is about four years including the coursework phase. For details please check http://www.iimidr.ac.in/academic-programmes/fellow-programme-in-management-fpm/

The department continuously looks for faculty and graduate students. Feel free to contact any of the area members or write to areachair-economics @ iimidr.ac.in.