- Soka University of America

Associate Professor of Economics

Phone: 949-480-4057
Fax: 949-480-4264
Email: dmazumder@soka.edu

Education

Positions Held

At SUA since 2006
2005 - 2006 Visiting Instructor, Clark University
1998 - 2003 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
2002 - 2004 Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin (Center for Transportation Research)
2002 Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin (Department of Marketing)
2000 Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin (Bureau of Business Research)

Research Interests

Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures

How Much Are Residents of Cities in Mexico Willing to Pay for Cleaner Air? [with Fidel Gonzalez (Sam Houston State University, Dept. of Economics); and Mark Leipnik (Sam Houston state University, Dept. of Geography and Geology)] http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A88FUhE0

Who Cares About Globalization? [with Ed Feasel, Soka University of America, Social and Behavioral Sciences]: International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology; forthcoming.
Environmental Preferences and the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)[with Ed Feasel, Soka University of America, Social and Behavioral Sciences]; Working Paper, 2012
How Effective Are Scrappage Subsidies in the Presence of Asymmetric Information?[with Ruhai Wu, McMaster University, DeGroot School of Business] Working Paper, 2011
Effects of Differential tax rates on Petrol and Diesel In India [with Sumeet Gulati, University of British Columbia, Department of Land and Food Systems; Anil Deolalikar, University of California at Riverside, Department of Economics] Working Paper, 2011

Courses Taught at SUA

Principles of Economics
Environmental Economics
Public Economics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Econometrics
Core 100 (Endurning Questions of Humanity); Core 200 (Contemporary Contexts)
Learning Clusters (Water Issues in Southern California; Poverty in Soutern California)