Dr Arnab Biswas is an applied financial economist, and recently completed his PhD in Finance from IIM Bangalore. His academic research primarily focuses on the role of expectations, the underlying mechanisms of expectation formation by investors and pricing in financial asset markets, and how such expectations matter in the monetary policy transmission mechanism using a mix of adaptive general equilibrium modelling and empirical time-series methods. He also looks into frictions arising from capital market regulations and their macroeconomic and financial market spillovers. From a methodological perspective, Dr Biswas has a strong interest in learning algorithms, machine learning, and deep learning techniques, and tries to address existing challenges in the literature using these methodologies.
Before pursuing his PhD, Dr Biswas gained nearly six years of professional experience at Larsen and Toubro (Railway Business Unit), where he served in Project Planning and Cost Management roles.
Dr Biswas holds a BTech from Techno India Salt Lake, West Bengal University of Technology and participated in several Management Development Programs focused on Cost Management. He also pursued an Executive MBA from the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at IIT Kharagpur, primarily specialising in financial modelling, value investing and consumer behaviour analytics.