Subal
C. Kumbhakar received his Ph.D. in
economics from the
University of Southern California
in 1986. He started teaching at the
University of Texas in 1986 as
an Assistant Professor and was
promoted to Professor in 2000. He
joined Binghamton University, SUNY
in 2001. He was awarded University
Distinguished Professor in
Economics in December 2005. He
teaches graduate econometrics (both
theory and applied), and undergraduate
microeconomics, statistics, and
econometrics courses. He also taught
at the Burdwan University, India
as a Lecturer in Economics from
1977-1981.
Subal's
main area of research is applied
microeconomics with a focus on
estimation of efficiency in
production. He uses production,
cost, and profit function
approaches to estimate economic
efficiency. He has formulated a
variety of panel data models to
measure efficiency, which he has
applied to a wide variety of
topics covering agriculture,
manufacturing, banking, airlines,
electricity
generation/distribution, public
sector enterprises, etc. His
recent works include environmental
efficiency, modeling undesirable
outputs. Some of his
other research areas include:
corruption and economic growth,
foreign direct investment, adverse
selection and moral hazards, risk and
risk preference in agriculture and
aquaculture. His current research
includes semi and nonparametric panel
data models with and without
efficiency.
Subal
is a Fellow of Journal of
Econometrics (1998). He holds
an Honorary Doctorate degree (Doctor
Honoris Causa) from Gothenburg
University, Sweden
(1997).
Subal
is currently a co-editor of Empirical
Economics. He
is serving as a Board of Editors
and/or associate editors of Journal
of Productivity Analysis since
1998, Technological Forecasting
and Social Change: An
International Journal since
1991, International Journal of
Business and Economics since
2002, Journal
of Agricultural and Applied
Economics since
2014, Journal of
Regulatory Economics since
2015, Macroeconomics and
Finance in Emerging Market
Economies since 2007, Applied
Econometrics since 2016,
Ecos de Economia: A Latin
American Journal of Applied
Economics since
2016.
Subal
is the co-author (with Knox Lovell)
of the book Stochastic Frontier
Analysis (2000), and A
Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic
Frontier Analysis (2015)
coauthored with H-J Wang and A
Horncastle, both published by
Cambridge University Press.
