Bumba Mukherjee
(Ph.D, Columbia University) Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Department of Economics and Econometrics. Professor Mukherjee's current research interests include studying how political institutions affect monetary policy and financial markets, the politics of trade liberalization, the design of international trade agreements and statistical methodology, especially time series analysis and Quantal Response Equilibrium models. His publications include: "Government Partisanship, Elections and the Stock Market: Examining American and British Stock Returns, 1930-2000," with David Leblang, American Journal of Political Science, Fall 2005; "Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies and Foreign Exchange Markets," with Will Moore, International Studies Quarterly, Spring 2006; "Presidential Elections and the Stock Market: Comparing Markov-Switching and Fractionally Integrated GARCH Models of Volatility," with David Leblang, Political Analysis and "Minority Governments and Exchange Rate Regimes," with David Leblang, European Union Politics, Winter 2006. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Globalization, Coalition Politics and Trade Liberalization (Cambridge University Press), and working on a second book manuscript that examines the impact of domestic political institutions on the design of international trade agreements
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Office: 446 Decio Hall
Email: bumba_mukherjee@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-2792
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556