RESEARCH

Fields

·      Economic Growth: North-South Trade, Endogenous Growth and Technological Change, Growth Convergence

·      Industrial Organization: Market Structure, R&D, Productivity, Industry Analysis - Textile and Apparel sector, Telecommunications

·      Health Economics: Health care and public policy

Grants and Awards

NTC Grant (2003-06), from the National Textile Center.

Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Grant (2001), from the Lindback Foundation.

Walter Elliot Award (1995), for excellence in Macroeconomics, University of Wisconsin.

Junior Research Fellowship (1989), from University Grants Commission, India.           

Publications

Vandegrift, Donald and Anusua Datta. 2006. “Prescription Drug Expenditures in the U.S.: The Effect of Obesity, Demographics and New Pharmaceutical Products, ”Southern Economic Journal, 73 (2), pp. 515-529.

Datta, Anusua and Hamid Mohtadi. 2006. “Endogenous Imitation and Technology Absorption in a Model of North-South Trade,” International Economic Journal, 20 (4), December, pp. 431-459.

Datta, Anusua, D.K. Malhotra and Philip Russel. 2006. “Regional Trade Pacts and the Competitiveness of the U.S. Textile Industry.” Competitiveness Review, 16 (3&4), pp. 262-276

Datta, Anusua and Susan Christoffersen. 2005. “Production Costs, Scale Economies and Technical Change in the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries.” Atlantic Economic Journal, 32, pp. 1-13.

Datta, Anusua and Sumit Agarwal. 2004. “Telecommunications and Economic Growth: Panel Data Approach.” Applied Economics, 36:15, pp. 1649-1654.  

Christoffersen, Susan and Anusua Datta. 2004. “The Changing Structure of U.S. Textiles:  Productivity Implications.” Journal of Business and Economic Studies, 10:2, pp. 28-37.

Datta, Anusua. 2003. “Divestiture and its Implications for Innovation and Productivity Growth in U.S.  Telecommunications.” Southern Economic Journal, 69:3, pp. 644-658.  

Datta, Anusua. 2003. “Time-Series Tests of Convergence and Transitional Dynamics.” Economics Letters, 81:2, pp. 233-240.

Datta, Anusua, D.K. Malhotra and Philip Russel.  “Determinants of Capital Structure: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries.” (forthcoming in Oxford Journal).

            Book Chapter

Datta, Anusua, Hamid Mohtadi and Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, 2006. "Economic Growth, R&D Spillovers and Convergence" in Next Economic Growth: New Factors and New Perspectives, edited by Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Miguel-Angel Galindo Martin, NOVA Publishing Company, New York.

[See Curriculum Vitae for details]