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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION

M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics

2013-2014

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

DELHI-110007


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CONTENTS

Page

1. Introduction 1

2. Faculty and Specializations 4

3. M.A. in Economics 7

4. M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics 24

5. UGC-JRF Research Scholarships 31

6. Ratan Tata Library 31

7. Hostel Accommodation and Medical Facilities 32

8. Right to Information Act, 2005 33

9. Important Ordinances of University of Delhi 33


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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

1. Please read the Handbook of Information carefully before filling theapplication form.

2. Incomplete Application forms will not be entertained.3. The application forms for M.A. in Economics will be available from

the office of the Department of Economics, Delhi School ofEconomics against a demand draft of```500/-(for students belongingto General Category & non SC/ST/PH Category) and```300/- (for

students belonging to SC/ST/PH category) from May 13, 2013 to

June 14, 2013. The demand draft should be made from any

nationalized bank drawn in favour of Registrar, University of

Delhi, and should be payable at Delhi.

4. Alternatively, the application form can be downloaded from ourwebsite: http://www.econdse.org . The relevant procedure is given indetail in the website: click on the PROGRAMMES link and followthe instructions there. The hard copy of the downloaded applicationform should be sent to the department along with a demand draft of```500/- for M.A. for General category students and ```300/- forSC/ST/PH applicants. The demand draft should be made from anynationalized bank in favour of Registrar, University of Delhi, and

should be payable at Delhi.

5.

Candidates seeking admission to the M.A. programme must submittheir completed application form latest by June 14, 2013to the Head,Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University ofDelhi, Delhi 110007.

6. After the deadline for receipt of application forms, application formssent through Registered/ Speed Post or by any other means will not beaccepted. Candidates are therefore advised to submit their applicationform at the earliest instead of waiting for the last date.

7. The Entrance Test for M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics will

be held on Saturday, June 29, 2013. The test will be of 3 hoursduration, and will commence at 10 a.m. The Examination Centres

will be notified on the Departments website www.econdse.org

prior to the entrance examination date.

8. Refund of Entrance Test fees is not permissible under anycircumstances.

9. The result of the Entrance Test shall be notified on the NoticeBoard of the Department of Economics. The result would also be

available on the Department of Economics website

www.econdse.org


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10. A short list of M.Phil. and Ph.D. candidates to be interviewed will beannounced by the afternoon of Wednesday July 10, 2013. Theinterviews will be held on July 15/16, 2013. The consolidated resultswill be announced on Thursday, July 18, 2013

11. Please refer to the application number for any future correspondence.


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Department of Economics

Delhi School of Economics

Office Hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

(Monday to Friday)

Contact Numbers

Heads Office 27666395

Department of Economics

Directors Office 27667540

Delhi School of Economics

Ratan Tata Library 27667688

Faculty Members (EPABX) 27667005, 27666533-35

Fax : 27667159

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.econdse.org


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1. INTRODUCTION

Our Past and Present

The Department of Economics (henceforth, the department) of the Delhi School ofEconomics is one of the oldest departments of the University of Delhi. The Delhi School ofEconomics was set up in 1949, as an institution for advanced studies and research ineconomics, on the initiative of the Founder-Director Professor V.K.R.V. Rao, with PrimeMinister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as its President. Since then, the department has been at theforefront of post-graduate teaching and research in economics.

The department supports Masters, M.Phil. and Doctoral programmes in Economics, whichdraw a huge number of applicants from all over the country and many from abroad. Theseprogrammes have a strong theoretical and quantitative focus with an emphasis on empirical

applications.

Numerous outstanding scholars have taught in the department over the years. Nobel laureateProfessor Amartya Sen was a member of the department between 1963 and 1971. Many ofhis important contributions to Social Choice Theory were completed during this period.Seven former faculty members of the department, namely, Amartya Sen, Jagdish Bhagwati,Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Prasanta Pattanaik, A.L. Nagar, Kaushik Basu and Bhaskar Duttahave been Fellows of the Econometric Society, a much coveted and distinguished honour inthe field of Economics marking the recipients membership in a very prestigious body ofinternational scholars. Several alumni of the department, including Dilip Abreu, VijayKrishna, Tapan Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Arunava Sen, have also been honoured with this

fellowship.

Apart from purely academic distinctions, members of the department have contributed to thetask of institution-building in various capacities. The founder, Professor Rao, went on tobecome the Vice Chancellor of Delhi University, served as the Education minister in thecentral government and also founded other important academic and research institutions.Another former member of the department, Professor Manmohan Singh, is the serving PrimeMinister of India. Numerous other members of the department, past and present, have servedthe nation as economic advisors to the government, planners, members of expert bodies andnurturers of academic and research institutions.

The training imparted by the department has inspired generations of students to pursueacademic careers and our alumni are spread across many of the most prestigious economicsdepartments around the world. Apart from academic and research positions, our alumni holdimportant positions in the government, the bureaucracy, NGOs, international organizations,the media and the private corporate sector.

The current department faculty specializations span a wide range of areas in economics.Apart from pursuing their individual research programmes, members of the faculty are alsointimately involved in the process of planning and policy-making in India and abroad. Thedepartment is currently ranked the highest amongst university economics departments inIndia by RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), a global electronic archive of workingpapers and publications in Economics and Finance (http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.india.html ).


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Looking Outward

The department maintains a lively interaction with the Indian and international economicsprofession.

Over the years, it has hosted a long list of distinguished scholars as visitors and speakers,including Nobel laureates such as Jan Tinbergen, John Hicks, Kenneth Arrow, MiltonFriedman, Amartya Sen, John Nash and Eric Maskin. Other distinguished visitors andspeakers include Michael Kalecki, Maurice Dobb, Nicholas Kaldor, Edmond Malinvaud,Jacques Dreze, Joan Robinson, Zvi Griliches and Angus Deaton.

The Delhi School of Economics has instituted the prestigious V.K. Ramaswamy MemorialLecture in collaboration with the Institute of Economic Growth and the Indian StatisticalInstitute. Over the years, this lecture has been delivered by a galaxy of scholars includingJagdish Bhagwati, T.N. Srinivasan, Ian Little, Harry Johnson, Robert Baldwin, I.G. Patel,K.N. Raj, William Baumol, Nicholas Stern, Bela Balassa, Lance Taylor, Ronald Jones, Anne

Krueger, and Nobel laureates James Tobin and Lawrence Klein.

The department also organizes the Sukhamoy Chakravarty Memorial Lecture in collaborationwith the Sukhamoy Chakravarty Memorial Trust. The distinguished speakers in this seriesinclude Hugo Sonnenschein, Oliver Hart, Pranab Bardhan and Kaushik Basu.

Conferences, workshops and seminars are important fora for the departments researchengagement with the economics profession at large. Not only do the present members of thedepartment actively engage in such interactions around the world, they also organize suchevents. The department organizes an active weekly seminar that attracts speakers fromaround the world. Another regular event is the Winter School that brings in distinguishedscholars from around the world to interact with young research scholars in a workshop-stylesetting. The list of distinguished invited speakers for the Winter School includes KenBinmore, John Moore, Herve Moulin, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Andrew Chesher, Esther Duflo,Abhijit Banerjee, Maitreesh Ghatak, William Thomson, Charles Manski, John Roemer andDilip Abreu.

Apart from these regular events, the department also organizes a number of small, one-off,thematic conferences and workshops every year. In 2012, the department organized aconference in memory of Professor Suresh Tendulkar on the theme Perspectives on

Economic Development and Policy. Eminent scholars from India and abroad participated in

this conference.

From time to time, the department also organizes much larger events. The most recent suchevent was the Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2012. This was the first time thatthis prestigious annual conference was hosted in India. It brought together over 350 scholarsfrom around the world, who gave contributed talks in twelve parallel sessions over threedays. In addition, this conference featured a dozen invited lectures by eminent economistsfrom around the world.


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Our Journal and Working Papers

The department houses a biannual journal, the Indian Economic Review, which publishespeer-reviewed scholarly articles in diverse areas of economics. It also runs a Working Paperseries that publishes the research of its faculty-members and visitors. A series of monographs

has also been published as part of the Delhi School of Economics monograph series.

Library and Computing Facilities

Teaching and research in the department are supported by excellent computing facilities anda well-stocked library. The Ratan Tata Library houses one of the best collections ineconomics and related social disciplines. It has a collection of over 315,000 books and bound

journals and subscribes to more than 300 academic journals. Many journals are also availableon-line from the Delhi University Library System.Training in computer applications relevantto the field has become an integral part of the current M.A. curriculum. The department hasmodern computer facilities with many applications and data sets to give students first-hand

experience in data analysis and applications.

Student Placements

The department has developed a well-deserved reputation for producing high quality,well-trained and extremely motivated students, many of whom go on to get their doctoratesat the top universities around the world. Over the past decade or so, our students gotadmission offers with fellowships from Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Chicago, Stanford, Yale, New York University, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Wisconsin-Madison, Maryland, Pennsylvania State University, Indiana and Washington St. Louis,among others.The department also has a placement programme, organized by the DSE-EconomicsPlacement Cell, that successfully places students in attractive corporate jobs. Since itsinception in 1998, the Placement Cell has been committed to widening the options availableto students in terms of available careers and in enabling them to make informed choicesregarding these options. A wide range of profiles are offered on campus comprising BusinessAnalytics, Risk Advisory, Marketing and Sales, Research, Consulting, Investment Banking,Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting, and Media, both for summer internships andfinal placements. Recruiters on campus include Nomura, Goldman Sachs, American Express,Citibank, Genesis, Proctor and Gamble, Essex Lake Group, Accenture, Merck, HSBC,

Genpact, ICICI, Royal Bank of Scotland, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, HewlettPackard, GMR, India Infrastructure, IBM, Paypal, Encore Group, Kie Square, Target,Absolut Data, CEPA, IFMR, IMRB, RBI, TERI, Centre for Civil Society and CRY.

The Placement Cell goes beyond traditional placement activities to create opportunities forthe growth of students through interactive sessions and workshops such as those for CVbuilding, improving interviewing skills and understanding various career options. In 2012,the cell started a Mentorship Programme to help the incoming M.A. students to perform wellduring the placement season in addition to coping with the demands of their academic work.

Please visit http://dsebottomline.com for more information.


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2. FACULTY AND SPECIALIZATIONS

PROFESSORS

Anant, T.C.A, Ph.D. (Cornell) (on leave)

Econometrics, Law and Economics

Bhattacharjea, Aditya, Ph.D. (Boston)

International Trade, Industrial Economics

Deshpande, Ashwini, Ph.D. (Delhi)

International Economics, Economics of Discrimination,

Aspects of the Chinese Economy

Dua, Pami, Ph.D. (London School of Economics) -- Head, Department of EconomicsMacroeconomics, Econometrics, Forecasting

Kanwar, Sunil, Ph.D. (Berkeley)

Development Economics, Intellectual Property, Agricultural Economics

Meenakshi, J.V., Ph.D. (Cornell)

Agricultural Economics, Economic Policy

Nayak, Pulin B., Ph.D. (Rochester)Public Economics, Economic Theory

Panda, Santosh C., Ph.D. (Birmingham) -- Director, Delhi School of Economics

Social Choice Theory, Microeconomic Theory

Shah, Sudhir A., Ph.D. (Princeton)

Economic Theory

Somanathan, Rohini, Ph.D. (Boston)

Economic Development, Political Economy, Public Economics

HONORARY PROFESSORS

Dreze, Jean, Ph.D. (ISI, Delhi)

Sen, Amartya, Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Singh, Manmohan, Ph.D. (Cambridge)


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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Banerji, Abhijit, Ph.D. (Yale)

Economic Theory, Applied Micro

Das, Mausumi, Ph.D. (JNU)

Growth and Development, Macroeconomics

Ghosh, Parikshit, Ph.D. (Boston)

Microeconomic Theory

Gupta, Shreekant, Ph.D. (Maryland)

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Kar, Anirban, Ph.D. (ISI, Delhi)

Social Choice Theory, Game Theory

Singh, Ram, Ph.D. (JNU)

Law and Economics, Contract Theory

Sinha, Uday Bhanu, Ph.D. (JNU)

Industrial Organisation Theory, Applied Game Theory

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Bag, Sugata, Ph.D. (JNU)Law and Economics, Information Economics

Goel, Deepti, Ph.D. (Boston)Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics

Goyal, Nira, M.A. (Delhi)Macroeconomics, International Economics

Param Jit, Ph.D. (Kurukshetra)Quantitative Methods


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OFFICE STAFF

R.C. Raheja P.A. to the Head of the DepartmentSandeep Sharma Sr. Assistant

Durga Rai AssistantSunil Datt Bhardwaj Assistant


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3. M.A. IN ECONOMICS

The Department offers a Master of Arts (M.A.) programme in Economics, which reflects newdevelopments in the discipline. The curriculum has a strong theoretical and quantitative focuswith all students being trained in the use of computers and statistical software that they find

useful in their professional careers in academia, research institutions, government, andindustry. The M.A. programme is semester-based and includes a large number of electivecourses which allows students to pursue their varied interests and to specialize in their fieldsof choice.

Academic Calendar

The Academic Calendar for the M.A. Economics programme for 2013-14 is as per theUniversity Calendar. Classes will begin on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.


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Course Structure

The M.A. in Economics is a two-year full-time programme with each year comprising thesummer and winter semesters. It consists of fifteen courses, of which six are compulsory core

courses and nine are elective/optional courses. Every student is required to complete theprogramme within a span period of four years of their initial admission. The medium ofinstruction and examination is English.

Courses are taken in the following sequence:

Semester I: Microeconomic Theory (001)Introductory Mathematical Economics (002)Macroeconomic Theory (004)

Semester II: Introductory Econometrics (003)Markets, Institutions and Economic Growth (005)Economic Development & Policy in India (006)One optional paper

Semester III: Four optional papers

Semester IV: Four optional papers

Each student is required to finalize his/her choice of the elective courses within two weeks ofthe start of each semester. From the list given below, the Department will announce theelective courses on offer at the beginning of each semester. The choice of elective courses inthe semester will be limited to those announced by the department. Because of infrastructuralrequirements the department may put a cap on the number of students in an elective course. Alist of elective courses is given below with those which were offered during 2012-13markedin bold.

Elective coursesare grouped into nine categories, including a General category.

1. Microeconomics101 Mathematical Economics102 General Equilibrium Theory

103 Game Theory I

104 Game Theory II

105 Economics of Uncertainty

106 Topics in Economic Theory

107 Choice Theory

108 Social Choice Theory

109 International Trade


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2. Macroeconomics201 Income, Employment and Fluctuations

202 Dynamic Macroeconomics

203 Open Economy Macroeconomics

204 Monetary Theory and Policy

205 Topics in Macroeconomic Theory

206 Empirical Macroeconomics3. Economic History

301 India and the Early Modern International Economy

302 Labour Markets in Historical Perspective

303 International Financial System, 1850-1975

304 Indian Business and Entrepreneurial History

305 Industrial Organisation in Historical Perspective306 Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective

307 Topics in Economic and Social History, 1700-1975

4. Econometric Methods and Applications

401 Econometric Methods

402 Applied Multivariate Statistics

403 Time Series Analysis

404 Forecasting Methods and Applications

405 Applied Production Analysis406 Applied Consumption Analysis

407 Structural Modelling for Policy Analysis

408 Topics in Econometrics

5. Finance: Theory, Institutions and Modelling

501 Corporate Finance

502 Financial Theory

503 Financial Markets

504 Econometrics of Financial Markets6. Public Policy: Theory and Institutions

601 Public Economics I

602 Public Economics II

603 Environmental Economics

604 Law and Economics

605 Resource Economics

606 Energy Economics

607 Applied Welfare Economics

608 Economics of Regulation


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7. Development Economics

701 Population and Development

702 Economics of Education and Health

703 Labour Economics

704 Trade and Development

705 Environment and Development

706 Macroeconomic Management in Developing Countries

707 Topics in Development Economics

708 India in the World Economy

709 Transport, Location and Infrastructure

710 Comparative Development8. Industrial and Agricultural Economics

801 Industrial Organization

802 Industrial Economy of India803 Economic Theory of the Firm

804 Indian Agriculture: Incentives and Decision-making

805 Indian Agriculture: Markets, Institutions and Technology

806 Topics in Agricultural Economics9. General

901 Ethics and Economics

902 Issues in Economic Systems and Institutions

903 Issues in the History of Economic Analysis904 Economics of Discrimination

In addition to the elective courses listed above, a student may also opt for a DissertationCourse (Course 999) if announced by the department. This is a two-semester elective coursewhich starts in the summer semester of the second year. Each of these courses, except thedissertation course, carries 100 marks. The dissertation course, which is the equivalent of twocourses, carries 200 marks.

Evaluation

Examinations in all courses, except the dissertation course, will be held semester wise and themedium of instruction is English. A student can appear for an exam only in the semester inwhich the examination for that course is announced by the department. The examination forthe dissertation course, comprising an evaluation by a board of examiners and a viva-voce,will be held only once a year, along with the examinations for the Winter-Semester of thesecond year.

In the case of all elective courses, except the dissertation course, evaluation will be done bythe instructor(s) in the concerned course with a provision for revaluation of the finalexamination. Unless otherwise specified, the division of marks will be 30 marks for internal

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50 marks for the final written examination. Internal evaluation may be based on acombination of exams, term-papers, lab assignments and class attendance and participationand the weights assigned to these components will be specified by the instructor at thebeginning of the course. In all the courses, the internal assessment requirements begin fromthe first day of classes and these requirements must be met as scheduled by the instructor.

In the case of the Dissertation Course, 60 marks (out of the total of 200 marks) are reservedfor viva-voce by a Board of Examiners, with the balance 140 marks for evaluation of thethesis.

Span Period, Promotion Criteria, Pass Rules and Award of Degree

Span Period

The span period of the M.A. programme is four years from the date of (first) registration.

Promotion Criteria, Pass Rules

(a)The minimum marks required to pass a paper in any semester shall be 40%. Thestudent must secure 40% in the End Semester Examination AND 40% in the total ofEnd Semester Examination and Internal Assessment of the paper.

(b)No student will be detained in Semester I or in Semester III on the basis of his/herperformance in these semesters. In other words, the student will be automaticallypromoted from Semester I to Semester II, and from Semester III to Semester IV.

(c)A student shall be eligible for promotion from 1styear (Part I) to 2ndyear (Part II) ofthe programme provided he/she passes 50% of the papers of Semesters I and II takentogether. However, he/she will have to clear the remaining paper(s) while studying inthe 2ndyear of the programme (Semesters III and IV).

(d)Students who do not fulfill the promotion criteria listed in clause (c) above shall bedeclared Fail in the Part concerned. However, they shall have the option to retain themarks in the papers in which they have secured Pass marks as per clause (a) above.

(e)A student who has to reappear in a paper prescribed for Semester I/III may do so onlyin the odd semester examinations to be held in November/December. A student whohas to reappear in a paper prescribed for Semester II/IV may do so only in the evensemester examinations to be held in April/May.

Note: If a student is not eligible for appearing in Semester I examinations for anyreason, he/she will not be eligible for admission to Semester II and will have to be

readmitted to the Semester I .

Reappearance in passed papers

(a)A student may reappear in any theory paper prescribed for a semester, on foregoing,in writing, her/his previous performance in the paper(s) concerned. This can be doneonce only in the immediate subsequent semester (for example, a student reappearing


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in a paper prescribed for Semester I, may do so only in the immediate next SemesterIII examination).

(b)A student who has passed all the papers of Part II (Semesters III and IV ) mayreappear for improvement, only once, in any paper(s) of Semesters III and/or IV at

the immediate subsequent Semesters III and/or IV examinations, respectively. Thestudent may do so on foregoing, in writing, his/her previous performance in thepaper(s) concerned, within the prescribed span period. This implies that the studenthas only one opportunity for improvement in the papers of Semesters III and IV.

(Note: The candidate of this category will not be eligible to join any higher

course of study)

(c) In the case of reappearance in a paper, the result will be prepared on the basis ofcandidates current performance in the examination.

(d)In the case of a candidate who opts to re-appear in any paper(s) under the aforesaidprovisions, on surrendering her/his earlier performance, but fails to re-appear in thepaper(s) concerned, the marks previously secured by the candidate in the paper(s) inwhich she/he has failed to re-appear shall be taken into account while determiningher/his result of the examination held currently.

(e)Reappearance in practical examinations, dissertation, project and field work shall notbe allowed.

(f) A student who reappears in a paper shall carry forward the internal assessment marksoriginally awarded.

A candidate must choose once only, the course(s) of a semester, in which he/she

would reappear at an examination. No candidate who has once chosen to

reappear in certain courses of a semester will be allowed to reappear in the

remaining courses of that semester at a later examination.

Note that a student will not be allowed to appear in any paper more than twice

and all exams must be completed within the four year span period.

Award of Degree

Candidates who qualify for the award of the degree shall be classified as follows:

First Division 60% or more marks in the aggregateSecond Division 50% or more marks in the aggregate but less than 60%Third Division 40% or more marks in the aggregate but less than 50%

Applications, with prescribed fees, for revaluation or re-checking of examination scripts will

be entertained if made within 15 days of the date of uploading of result on the website of theUniversity.


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Admission Rules and Procedures (for admission to M.A Economics, 2013-2014)

Students seeking admission to M.A Economics at the University of Delhi are required to firstregister themselves with the Department of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, forappearing in the Entrance Examination. After being selected for the M.A. Economics

programme, students may enroll themselves either in the Department of Economics at theDelhi School of Economics, or in any of the colleges of the University of Delhi listed below:

Deshbandhu CollegeHindu CollegeIndraprastha College*Janki Devi Memorial College*Kirori Mal CollegeLady Shri Ram College*Miranda House*Ramjas CollegeShri Ram College of CommerceSt. Stephens CollegeZakirHussain College

Colleges marked * are for women students only.

Note that all lectures are delivered in the Department of Economics, Delhi School of

Economics irrespective of where the student is enrolled.

Application Procedure

Eligible applicants are required to submit the attached Entrance Test Application formcomplete in all respects.

The applicant must paste three recent passport size photographs as specified on theapplication form and the admission tickets.

The completed application form must reach the Head, Department of Economics, DelhiSchool of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 latest by June 14, 2013.

The Entrance Exam will be held on Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. The ExaminationCentre will be notified on the Departments website www.econdse.org.

Eligibility Conditions

A. Students from Indian Universities (General Category)

(i) B.A. (Hons.) Economics of the University of Delhi with 50% or more marks in the aggregate.

(ii) B.A. (Hons.) / B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics of any other Indian University recognized by the

University of Delhi with 50% or more marks in the aggregate. In the case of Universitieswhere the B.A./B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics degree includes courses other than Economics, the


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course shall be treated as an Honours course only if it contains at least 55% marks of the totalmarks in respect of papers in economics.

(iii) First Class with 60% or more marks in Graduate/Post-graduate degree in any other subjectfrom the University of Delhi or any Indian University recognized by the University of Delhi.

Note: No candidate will be admitted in the General Category unless he/she secures at

least 40% marks in the Entrance Test. Relaxations/concessions for other

categories are given below

B. Students from Foreign Universities

Indian nationals holding a degree from non-Indian Universities, as well as all foreignnationals have the option of seeking admission to M.A Economics either by taking thedepartments Entrance Examination or by seeking admission on individual basis bysubmitting their GRE Scores along with recommendations from two academic referees.Those who choose to take the entrance test must apply to the Head of the Department on theprescribed form by the due date. In other cases, complete application with GRE scores andrecommendations from academic referees must reach the Head of the Department by June 14,2013. No matter which option they choose, all foreign nationals must route their applicationsthrough:

Deputy Dean (Foreign Students Registry)Room No. 11 (First Floor)Conference CentreUniversity of Delhi

Delhi 110007

N.B. Foreign nationals with Indian degrees and Indian nationals with degrees fromforeign universities should ideally appear for the entrance test. In case it is notfeasible for a candidate to appear for the test she/he should follow the procedure laiddown in B above.

Notes: 1. Permission to appear in the Entrance Exam does not in any way commit theUniversity to recognize a candidates eligibility for admission. The eligibility willbe decided as per procedures prescribed by the University in this regard.

2. Candidates seeking admission to the programme on the basis of a Bachelorsdegree should have passed the Bachelors degree examination under the 10+2+3 or11+2+2 or 10+2+2+1 pattern of education.

3. A candidate whose result of the last qualifying examination is awaited will beallowed to appear in the Entrance Exam on submitting a certificate from theinstitution to that effect. In case the candidate is admitted to the programme onprovisional basis, the admission will be cancelled if the result is not communicatedby August 31, 2013 (or as per the date set by the University) or if the candidatefails to meet the minimum eligibility criteria on the basis of his/ her result.


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4. No candidate will be admitted in the General Category unless he/she secures atleast 40% marks in the Entrance Test. Relaxations/concessions for other

categories are given below.

Relaxations/Concessions

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and seeking admission to post-graduate courses will also be required to get their names registered along with othercandidates and appear for the Entrance Exam to be held on June 29, 2013. Further provisionsare as follows. (Ref: AC Resolution No.88 dated 14/06/1983; EC Resolution No.157 dated24/12/2001):

The minimum eligibility requirement for the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidateswill be that they must have passed the qualifying school/degree examination, provided thatthe minimum eligibility for admission to post-graduate Courses be the minimum pass marksof the qualifying examination concerned of the University of Delhi. In the case of ScheduledCastes/Scheduled Tribes candidates who had passed the last qualifying examination fromother Universities, they should have secured at least the same percentage of pass marks at thequalifying examination as prescribed for the equivalent examination of Delhi University forpurposes of admission to the Post-graduate course of this University.

Where the admission is based on screening/written test, both for under-graduate and post-graduate courses, the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Candidates would also be required

to take the same but their merit list be drawn separately and operated as per the reservationquota.

Other Backward Classes (Ref: Notification No. Aca.I/2012-13/OBC/588 dated 11/04/2012)

The OBC candidates shall be given a relaxation in the minimum eligibility in the qualifyingexamination and in the minimum eligibility (if any) in the admission entrance test to theextent of 10% of the minimum eligibility marks prescribed for the General Categorycandidates. For example, if the minimum eligibility for admission to a course is 50% for theGeneral Category candidates, the minimum eligibility for the OBCs would be 45% i.e. (50%

less 10% of 50%).

All those OBC candidates who meet the minimum eligibility marks in the qualifyingexamination and the minimum eligibility marks in the entrance test shall be eligible foradmission in the order of their merit, keeping in view the availability of seats reserved forthem.

The OBC candidates who belong to the Non-Creamy Layerand whose castes appear in theCentral List of the OBCs only shall be eligible to be considered for admission under theOBC Category.


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Persons With Disabilities (PWD)

The PWD candidates with not less than 40% disability shall be given a relaxation in theminimum eligibility in the qualifying examination and in the minimum eligibility (if any) inthe admission entrance test to the extent of 5%.

Children/Widows of the Eligible Armed Forces Personnel (CW)

A concession of 5% marks in the minimum eligibility requirements in the qualifyingexaminations.

The candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, and Persons with

Physical Disability shall be charged the admission form/entrance examination fee at

concessional rates.

Reservation

(a) Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backward Classes

Reservation of seats in admissions to various under-graduate and post-graduate courses,including the M.Phil. programme, shall be in the following manner:

Scheduled Caste = 15% of total intake in each courseScheduled Tribe = 7 % of total intake in each courseOther Backward Classes = 27% of total intake in each course

The seats reserved for the SC/ST shall be filled by the SC/ST candidates only. However, inthe case of non-availability of the eligible candidates the reserved seats may be interchangedbetween the SC & ST. If still any seat remains unfilled, the same shall be left vacant.

If the seats reserved for the OBCs remain vacant, the said seats shall be filled with the OBCstudents. Only if OBC candidates possessing the minimum eligibility marks are not availablein the OBC category then the vacant OBC seats shall be converted into General Categoryseats in accordance with the admission schedule notified by the University.

(b)Supernumerary seats:

(i) Persons with Disabilities (PWD) = 3%of total intake (1% each for the persons with

low vision or blindness, hearing impaired and loco motor disability or cerebral palsy

(interchangeable in case of non-availability of candidates in the sub-categories).

(ii)Children/Widows of the eligible Armed Forces Personnel(CW Category) = 5% ofthe seats in each course.

As per the guidelines approved by the Academic Council, admissions of candidatesbelonging to CW categories have to be made in the following order of priorities:

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II. Wards of serving personnel and ex-servicemen disabled in action;III. Widows/Wards of Defense personnel who died in peace time with

death attributable to military service;IV. Wards of Defense personnel disabled in peace time with disability

attributable to the military service; and

V. Wards of Ex-servicemen personnel and serving personnel includingpersonnel of police forces who are in receipt of Gallantry Awards;Category-V (Gallantry Awards) include: Param Vir Chakra, Ashok Chakra,Sarvottam Yudh Seva Medal, Maha Vir Chakra, Kirti Chakra, Uttam YudhSeva Medal, Vir Chakra, Shaurya Chakra, Yudh Seva Medal, Sena, Nau Sena,Vayusena Medal, Mention-in-Despatches, Presidents Police Medal forGallantry, Police Medal for Gallantry.

Authorities Competent to issue certificates under CW category:-

Secretary, Kendriya, Sainik Board, Delhi Secretary, Rajya Zila Sainik Board Officer-in-Charge, Records Office 1stClass Stipendiary Magistrate Ministry of Home Affairs (for Police personnel in receipt of Gallantry

Awards)

(iii) Foreign Nationals= 5% seats in first year of each course in Colleges.

The foreign nationals seeking admission in the University/its colleges shall have to

get themselves registered with the Foreign Students Registry in compliance with theschedule notified by the FSR. No Foreign student will be admitted directly by theDepartment/Colleges.

(iv)Sports/ECA Persons=upto5% of total intake in each course.

Admission under these categories shall be made in accordance with the guidelines issued bythe University from time to time.

1. The merit list for the general category seats will comprise of all the candidates in theorder of merit. No one will be excluded from the same. In other words, it will also

include SC/ST/OBC candidates if they come in the general merit. A candidate cannotbe excluded from the general category merit list just because he belongs toSC/ST/OBC. Such a candidate is entitled to be considered under the generalcategory, as well as under the reserved category. Admission to open category seatswill be strictly in the order of merit without excluding SC/ST/OBC candidates.

2. As per the A.C. Resolution 40 dated 24/04/1997, no student of the University shall bepermitted to pursue two degree courses simultaneously either from the University ofDelhi or from any other University except the part-time diplomas/certificates of theUniversity of Delhi.


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M.A. Admission-cum-Scholarship Test/ Entrance Exam

There will be two types of question papers for the admission-cum-scholarship test termed asOption A and Option B. Candidates are free to choose any one option. The question paperunder Option A is more suitable for candidates who have studied Economics/Commerce at

the undergraduate level, and the question paper under Option B is more suitable forcandidates who have studied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or any of the other coursesmentioned under eligibility conditions above at the undergraduate level. However, as statedearlier, the candidates are free to choose any one of the two available options.

Please note that every candidate must indicate on the application form their choice of

option (A or B) for the entrance exam. The option exercised (at the time of submitting

the application form) will be deemed final and the candidate will get a question paper

for that option only.

Option A

Candidates are expected to be familiar with the material contained in the currentB.A.(Honours) Economics programme of the University of Delhi. The Entrance Examinationwill test the candidates ability to understand and apply concepts in four basic areas inEconomics: (a) microeconomic theory, (b) macroeconomic theory, (c) mathematicaltechniques used by economists, and (d) probability and statistics. Apart from these, somegeneral questions testing the reasoning and quantitative ability of the students may also beasked. For more details about the nature of the examination, please see the description ofOption A given below.

A list of indicative, but not exhaustive, references that may be used to prepare for theexamination are:

Chiang, A.C, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics,McGraw-Hill.

Dornbusch, R., and S. Fischer,Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill

Mankiw, N.G.,Macroeconomics, Macmillan

Nagar, A.L., and Das R.K.,Basic Statistics, Oxford University Press.

Pindyck, Robert S. and Rubinfeld, Daniel L.Microeconomics, 5th ed., Prentice-Hall.

Sydsaeter, K. and Hammond, P. J.Mathematics for Economic Analysis, Pearson Education.

Varian, H.Intermediate Microeconomics, 2nd ed., Norton & Co.

Option B

Candidates choosing Option B are expected to be prepared in Mathematics and Statistics at alevel indicated by the following references:

Bartle, R.G., The Elements of Real Analysis, Wiley

Coddington, E.A. and N. Levinson, Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations, McGraw-Hill

Feller, W.,An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, Wiley


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Finkbeiner, D.T., Introduction to Matrices and Linear Transformations, W.H. Freeman and

Co. (reprinted in India by D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co.)

Hoffman, K. and R. Kunze,Linear Algebra, Prentice-Hall

Hogg, C and Craig, A.T.,Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, Prentice-Hall

Rudin, W., Principles of Mathematical Analysis, McGraw-Hill

Description of Option A

Option A will consist of multiple-choice questions only. It will comprise 40 multiple-choicequestions of 2 marks each (with a penalty of 2/3 for a wrong answer), and 20 multiple-choice questions of 1 mark each (with a penalty of 1/3 for a wrong answer). The correctchoices must be entered on the bubble sheet provided for the purpose, and not on the question

paper.

The multiple-choice questions are designed to test rigorously the ability to apply conceptsand techniques, rather than have a mere theoretical familiarity with them. Space will beprovided in the question paper for the necessary rough work. Because the bubble sheet willbe checked by a machine, it is very important that:

only one bubble be shaded against each question number the chosen bubble be completely shaded HB pencil be used for the shading if you decide to change your choice, completely erase the previously shaded bubble

Candidates must bring their own pencils, erasers, sharpeners etc., as well as simple (non-programmable, non-alpha-numeric memory) calculators.

Description of Option B

The option B question paper will have two parts. Part I will comprise of multiple-choicequestions with negative marking for an incorrect answer. Part II will comprise of longerquestions.

For the benefit of the candidates the entrance test paper for the year 2012 is availableon our web page: http://www.econdse.org/ma-admissioninfo-2013 . No queries on the

test paper will be entertained.

Sample multiple-choice questions

1. A number of mathematicians in the middle of the 20th century contributed to a series ofbooks published in the name of a fictitious mathematician called Bourbaki. Suppose asociological critic of science asserts There exists a book by Bourbaki such that everychapter in that book contains a theorem whose validity depends on the readers gender. Ifthis assertion is false, which of the following assertions must be true?


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(a) Every book by Bourbaki contains a chapter such that the validity of some theoremin that chapter is independent of the readers gender.

(b) Every chapter in every book by Bourbaki contains a theorem whose validity isindependent of the readers gender.

(c) There exists a book by Bourbaki such that every chapter in it contains a theorem

whose validity is independent of the readers gender.(d) Every book by Bourbaki contains a chapter such that the validity of all the

theorems in it is independent of the readers gender.

2. Suppose two dice are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability that the totalnumber of spots on the upper faces of the two dice is not divisible by 2,3 or 5?

(a)1/3(b)2/9(c)4/9(d)7/16

3. The LM curve will shift to the

(a) left if the price level falls and the quantity of money is held constant.

(b) left if the price level is held constant and the quantity of money rises.

(c) right if the price level falls and/or the quantity of money rises.

(d) right if the price level rises and the quantity of money is held constant.

4. Consider a Cournot duopoly with inverse market demand function p=ab(q+q),

where a>4 and b>0 are given constants, p is the market price and qis firm is output. Suppose Firm 1s cost function is C(q) =qand Firm 2scost function is C(q)=2q. In Cournot equilibrium, the outputs are,

(a) q=a/3b and q= (a-3)/3b(b) q= (a-3)/3b and q=a/3b

(c) q=2a/3b and q= (2a-3)/3b(d) q= (2a-3) a/3b and q=2a/3b

5. Consider the situation described in Question 4. Now suppose Firm 1 takes overFirm 2 to become a monopolist. The new firm will

(a) produce 2/3 of the output in plant 1 and 1/3 of the output in plant 2.(b) produce 1/3 of the output in plant 1 and 2/3 of the output in plant 2.(c) divide the output equally between the two plants.(d) produce nothing in plant 2.

Admission Procedure

Admission to the M.A. Economics course will be strictly according to merit and no candidate

will be admitted in the General category unless he/she secures at least 40 percent marks in theEntrance Test. In the selection of candidates for admission, the decision of the Admission


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Committee of the department will be final. Admission of students to the course will beprovisional and will be confirmed by the Admission Committee of the University only afterverification of the original certificates.

Successful candidates will be issued admission slips, which they are required to produce for

enrolling themselves in the Delhi School of Economics or in any of the listed colleges. Theprocedure for admission in the Delhi School of Economics is given below. For admission inaffiliated colleges, candidates are requested to contact the concerned college authorities. Thetotal intake in M.A. Economics this year, inclusive of all the reserved category seats, will bedecided as per the guidelines to be finalized by the University. For scholarship purposes,separate merit lists will be put up for the reserved and non-reserved categories.

The candidates selected for admission in the Delhi School of Economics must contact theoffice of the School for the admission form. The students are required to produce:

i. All original certificates and mark sheets including date of birth certificatealongwith the attested photocopies thereof.

ii. Hostel application, if relevant, on the prescribed form (refer to section 8 of thisHandbook);

iii. Fourrecent passport size photographs.Fee Structure: M.A. Economics

A. Students registered directly in the Delhi School of Economics are required to pay thefollowing fees/annual charges:

Fee Rupees p.a./p.m.

Tuition Fee (`18 per month from May to April) 216.00 p.a.Admission Fee 240.00 p.a.University Enrollment Fee 150.00 p.a.University Development Fee 600.00 p.a.University Annual Charges 8.00 p.a.Library Fee 6.00 p.a.Identity Card 10.00 p.a.

Athletics Fee 50.00 p.a.W.U.S. Health Centre Fee 120.00 p.a.Students Union Fee 125.00 p.a.Library Deposit (Refundable) 1000.00 p.a.Cultural Fee 10.00 p.a.DSE Amenities Fund 100.00 p.a.Library Development Fee 200.00 p.a.Computer Fee* 3000.00 p.a.DSE Development Fee 500.00 p.a.DSE Library Services Fee 1000.00 p.a.N.S.S. Fund 20.00 p.a.Prevention of Sexual Harassment Fund 10.00 p.a.


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B. For students registered in colleges, the following annual fees will be collected in thecolleges (apart from the respective college charges and tuition fees):

Computer fee* ` 3000.00DSE Development Fee ` 500.00DSE Library services fee ` 1000.00

* To alleviate the financial hardship of the needy students, the above fees may be fully orpartially waived, as per the assessment of a departmental committee. Needy students shouldsubmit an application at the time of depositing of admission fees for full/partial waiver for thecomputer fee. This application must be accompanied by a statement of circumstances, and acertificate of proof of the annual family income.

Tuition fees from May to August and annual charges are payable on the day of admission.Other dues are payable in advance on or before the 10th of the month for which they are due.

Fees may be revised from time to time as per the University decision.

General Discipline

Subject to the control and general regulation of the Academic Council, the instruction androutine in M.A Economics shall be under the direction of the Dean, Faculty of SocialScience, and the Head of the Department.

Except with respect to his/her work in the programme, each student shall remain under thecontrol and discipline of his/her own college/institution. For example, a student expelled fromhis/her college is automatically expelled from the programme.

Scholarships

The students joining the M.A. course in Economics can compete, on the basis of theirperformance in the Entrance Test and in their last qualifying examination, for a number ofscholarships awarded every year. Prominent among these are:

Dr. Manmohan Singh Fellowship of`5000/- per month plus a book grant of`7500/- perannum; Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar Memorial Scholarship of `2000/- per month;A.N. Ram scholarship of `1200/- per month; Mrs. Elizabeth Krishna Scholarship of`500/-per month; Merit Scholarship of `400/- per month and Smt. Shanti SharmaMemorial Scholarship of`500/- per month.

All scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit. Those awarded in the first year of thecourse are renewed in the second year subject to satisfactory performance. Four of theNational Scholarships are reserved for students who have graduated from universities otherthan the University of Delhi. The details of some of the scholarships are given below :


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___________________________________________________________________________Sr. Name of the Scholarship Year in Duration Value Number

No. which of award (per-month)

Awarded___________________________________________________________________________

1. Dr. Manmohan Singh M.A. (P) Two years `5000.00 1Fellowship

2. Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar M.A.(P) & (F) One Year ` 2000.00 2Scholarship

3. A.N. Ram Scholarship* M.A. (P) Two years `1200.00 14. Merit Scholarship M.A. (P) One year ` 400.00 45. Merit Scholarship M.A. (F) One year ` 400.00 46. Smt. Shanti Sharma M.A.(P) Two years ` 500.00 1

Memorial Scholarship7. National (CAS) Scholarship M.A. (P) Two years ` 250.00 88. Prof. Balvir & Ranjana M.A.(P) Two years ` 230.00 1

Singh Memorial Scholarship

The other scholarships offered by the department are as follows. The exact valuesof these scholarships may vary according to the availability of funds.

9. Prof. Balvir & Ranjana Singh M.A. (F) One year - 1Memorial Scholarship

10. Prof. K.A. Naqvi Memorial M.A. (P) Two years - 1Scholarship11. Alka Garg Memorial** M.A. (P) Two years - 1

Scholarship12. Prof. Naqvi Memorial M.A. (F) Ten months - 1

Scholarship13. Pradeep Gupta Memorial*** M.A. (P) Two years - 1

Scholarship14. Datia Darbar****

Endowment M.A.(P) Two years - 1

* awarded once in two years only to needy students whose parents do not pay income tax.

** awarded once in two years only to female students

*** awarded once in two years

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4. M.PHIL. AND PH.D. IN ECONOMICS

The M.Phil and Ph.D. programmes in Economics operate within the stipulated

ordinances of the University of Delhi. The Ph.D. programme will be governed by thedetailed provisions of Ordinance VI-B of the University of Delhi --

http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/about_du/PDF/Phd_ordinance.pdf

Application Procedure

1) There is a common application form and a common exam for the M.Phil. and Ph.D.programmes. Students have the option of applying for only the M.Phil., only thePh.D. or applying for both programmes. Students who would like to be consideredfor both programmes must take the entrance exam.

2) The deadline for the online application form for admission into the M.Phil./Ph.D.programmes for the academic year 2013-14 was March 15, 2013.

(Application forms for M.Phil./Ph.D. admissions were obtainable from the Office ofthe Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics and also downloadablefrom the Departments webpage. Application forms had to be supported by therequired documents and accompanied by a demand draft of `500/-. For SC/ST/PHapplicants, the relevant demand draft amount is`300/-. The demand draft should havebeen made from any nationalized bank in favour of the Registrar, University ofDelhi, payable at Delhi.)

3) All applicants should print an additional copy of the form and bring this with theirattached photograph to the entrance exam. This will serve as their admission ticket.The M.Phil./Ph.D. entrance exam will be held on June 29, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.A shortlist of candidates to be interviewed will be announced by the afternoon ofWednesday, July 10, 2013. The interviews will be held on July 15/16, 2013.A consolidated admission list will be declared on Thursday, July 18, 2013.

Eligibility and Admission Procedures

Eligibility for Admission to M.Phil.

a) Students from Indian UniversitiesThe minimum qualification for admission to the M.Phil. programme shall be aMasters degree in Economics or in any of the following allied subjects: BusinessEconomics, Business Administration, Commerce, Statistics, Mathematics, OperationsResearch, History and Engineering, with at least 55% marks in the aggregate, or anequivalent qualification recognized by the Academic Council. The above minimummarks requirement shall not, however, apply in the case of the teachers of theUniversity of Delhi holding substantive appointment before the promulgation of theordinance relating to the M.Phil. programme. Such teachers need only have 50% inthe aggregate to be eligible. SC/ST candidates shall be given 5% relaxation in theminimum eligibility marks.


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b) Students from foreign Universities

Indian Nationals holding a Masters degree in Economics or in an allied subject, aswell as all foreign nationals have the option of seeking admission to M.Phil. inEconomics programme by taking the Departments Entrance Examination or seekingadmission on individual basis by submitting their GRE Scores along withrecommendations from two academic referees. Those who choose to take the entrancetest must apply to the Head of the Department on the prescribed form by the due date.No matter which option they choose, all foreign nationals must route theirapplications through:

Deputy Dean (Foreign Students Registry)Room No. 11 (First Floor)Conference Centre

University of DelhiDelhi 110007

Foreign nationals with Indian degrees and Indian nationals with degrees from

foreign universities should ideally appear for the entrance test. In case it is not

feasible for a candidate to appear for the test she/he should follow the procedure

laid down in (b) above.

Eligibility for Admission to Ph.D.

To be eligible for admission to the Ph.D. programme, a candidate must have obtained

a Masters or M.Phil. degree of the University of Delhi, or any other recognizedUniversity, or any degree recognized as equivalent in the subject in which thecandidate wishes to pursue a course of research, or in an allied subject. She/he musthave obtained either a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent grading in the M.Phil.degree or a minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grading in the Masters degree.SC/ST candidates shall be given 5% relaxation in the minimum eligibility marks.

Teachers of the University of Delhi and its constituent colleges are eligible only ifthey have completed two years of service. Teachers/employees of any otherrecognized college/university/research institute having completed three years ofservice will be considered only if they get study leave for a period of two years to

complete residency requirements.

Admission to M.Phil./Ph.D.

1) Admission to the M.Phil./Ph.D. programme will be only through the entranceexam to be conducted on June 29, 2013, as stated above.

2) This exam will also form the principal route of entry into the Ph.D. programme.Successful candidates will then go through an interview and if selected, will begiven provisional admission into the Ph.D. programme.

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4) admission to the Ph.D. programme through an alternative route. This requirestheir submitting a research proposal by March 15, 2013. Candidates whoseproposals pass an initial screening were asked to present a short seminar in April.A subset of these students will be considered for admission.

5) Candidates awaiting results of their last qualifying examination were eligible toapply. They must, however, produce proof of eligibility, if selected, at the time ofadmission. The first stage of admission will be on the basis of the entrance exam,except for eligible candidates under clause (3) above for whom their researchproposal and seminar presentation will be considered in lieu of the entrance exam.This will be followed by an interview for those candidates who score above theminimum cut off set by the department for clearing the first stage.

6) For the entrance examination applicants will be expected to be familiar with M.A.first year material in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics.

List of indicative textbooks

(i) Advanced Microeconomic Theory - Geoffrey A. Jehle and Philip J. Reny(ii) Advanced Macroeconomics - David Romer(iii) Basic Econometrics - D. Gujarati

The question paper for the entrance examination will consist of two parts. The firstpart will consist of multiple-choice questions in microeconomics, macroeconomicsand econometrics. The second part would consist of short answer questions in thesame three areas. A sample of the previous years question paper isavailable on the website http://econdse.org/mphil-admissioninfo-2013/ orhttp://www.econdse.org/phd-admissioninfo-2013/ . However, the Departmentreserves the right to change the weightage of the two parts and the nature of questionsfor the 2013examination.

7) A final list of candidates who have been accepted for admission into both theM.Phil. and Ph.D programmes will be announced on July 18, 2013 aftershortlisted candidates have been interviewed. This list will then be forwardedto the Board of Research Studies (BRS) for final approval. If approved, the Ph.D.candidates would be given provisional admission to the first year of the

programme.

8) Registrationis confirmedafter the successful completion of all coursework andthe presentation and approval of a dissertation proposal in a departmental seminar.The proposal must be approved by the supervisor and advisory committee of thestudent, the Department Research Committee, and the Board of Research Studies.

Financial Assistance

M.Phil.

Student intake into the M.Phil. programme will be determined as per the UniversityOrdinance VI. Reservation will be provided as per university guidelines.


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a) 25% of the students enrolled in the M.Phil. programme will be entitled to getfellowships @`5000/- per month, with a contingency support of `8000/- per year.Duration of the fellowship will be as per rules and regulations under the Ordinance forthe M.Phil. programme of the Department. The selection of students for the above-

mentioned Fellowships will be as per the merit list. 50% of the fellowships will bereserved for the reserved categories. Duration of the fellowship will be as per the rulesand regulations under the Ordinance for the M.Phil. programme of the Department.No fellowship will be given for the extended period.

b) No fellowship will be given to students who join part-time M.Phil. programme.

Ph.D.

Applicants may independently apply for the UGC-JRF Research Scholarships (see section 6below).

Candidates admitted to the Ph.D. programme may be awarded UGC (Non-NET)Fellowships of ` 8000/- per month with contingency support of `8000/- per year as perUGC/University rules. Candidates, who have qualified for the NET, but not the JRF, mayalso be awarded this fellowship.

Limited financial support may also be available from the Centre for DevelopmentEconomics. Only applicants admitted through the Entrance Examination will be eligible forsuch support in the first year of the Ph.D. programme.

Coursework and Other Requirements for M.Phil . and Ph.D.1) Both M. Phil. and Ph.D. students would be required to take four courses during the first

year and score at least 50% in each course. The set of courses to be taken will bedetermined by the Department Research Committee (DRC). For those admitted in theyear 2013-2014, all entering students with be required to take two compulsory courses,one in Game Theory and the other in Econometric Methods. The remaining two coursescan be chosen from the list of available courses, subject to the approval of the DRC. TheDRC may allow the student to take courses outside the department if these are thoughtvaluable background for the proposed research. If a student is not able to pass a coursewith 50% marks, the student shall be allowed to re-appear for the examination within 12

months. For students failing courses in the summer semester, a re-test will be offered inthe second week of the winter semester and similarly for the winter semester.

2) An M.Phil. student who has completed coursework with aggregate marks of at least 60%may enter the Ph.D. programme in their second year. At this point no additionalcoursework is essential and the student would be treated on par with other Ph.D. studentswho have completed a year in the programme. M.Phil. students are required to remain inresidence for the first year of their programme. M.Phil students who do not transition tothe Ph.D. programme must submit their dissertation within 18 months of their joining ifthey are full-time students, and within 24 months if they are part-time students.

3) Each student entering the Ph.D. programme is required to select a supervisor and twoother members for their advisory committee within one month of joining the programme.


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Upon receiving the written consent of the faculty members involved, the DRC willconsider these committees for approval and forward finalized committee compositions tothe BRS. These are required before the process of provisional registration is complete.

4) M.Phil. students are expected to contact faculty members in the second semester of theircoursework and get written consent from at least one faculty member to be theirsupervisor. They are expected to submit a 1000-word proposal by June 30, 2014.

5) Ph.D. students are required to remain in residence for two years following provisionalregistration and are required to submit their thesis within four years of the date ofprovisional registration.

6) For confirmation of Ph.D. registration, which generally occurs in the second year in theprogramme, the candidate needs to successfully complete all coursework.

7) While all students have to have a supervisor from the department, they may have a joint-supervisor in any recognized institution and can spend up to 12 months in the institutionof the joint-supervisor. During the course of the programme, a change in the focus ofresearch or other circumstances may make a change in the advisory committeeappropriate. In such cases, the student must apply to the DRC with the names of newcommittee members after getting their written consent.

8) M.Phil. and Ph.D students are required to present regularly in the student researchworkshop which meets weekly during the academic year. They must also be in regularcontact with their supervisors and submit a report on their progress to the department viatheir supervisors by the end of each academic year.

Duration and Span Period

M.Phil.

a)Duration

The duration of the M.Phil. is 18 months for full-time students and two years for part-timestudents. Full-time teachers of the University of Delhi and its constituent colleges holdinga substantive post alone are eligible for admission on a part-time basis.

b) Span Period

A student must complete the M.Phil. programme i.e. clear both Part I (Course Work) andPart II (Dissertation) of the course within three years of initial registration for the M.Phil.full-time programme, and within four years of initial registration for the M.Phil. part-timeprogramme.

Ph.D.

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Thesis Submission

M.Phil.

a) The dissertation will be submitted only when the supervisor(s) concerned is/aresatisfied that it is worthy of consideration in part fulfillment of the M.Phil. Degree.The application for submission of the dissertation shall also be countersigned by theHead of the Department.

b) A candidate who having fulfilled the attendance requirement and being otherwiseeligible to appear at the examination fails, or fails to appear shall be required toappear/reappear for the same on his/her being an ex-student in accordance with therules prescribed in this regard.

c) Evaluation and Classification of Results: Students admitted to the M.Phil. will beevaluated in Part I (Course Work) and Part II (Dissertation) of the M.Phil examinationunder the numerical system and successful candidates of the M.Phil. examination willbe classified into the following three categories.

1. Pass At least 50% in each of two courses and no lessthan 40% in the third and 50% in theDissertation including viva-voce

2. First Division 60% marks or more in the aggregate

3. First Division with Distinction 75% marks or more in the aggregate

Ph.D.

The thesis can be submitted once the supervisor certifies it as acceptable. For Ph.D.theses, research findings must be presented in a departmental seminar. Submissionmust take place within 89 days of the pre-submission seminar. Six weeks in advanceof submission, 7 copies of the Abstract and Table of Contents should be forwarded tothe Head of the Department for consideration by the DRC. The DRC will then meetand approve the decision to submit and arrive at a panel of at least six potential

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Fee Structure

M.Phil.

The following fees are required to be deposited with the University Cashier:

Fee Rupees p.a./p.m.Admission Fee 240.00 p.a.

Annual Charges 8.00 p.a.

Library Deposit (refundable) 1000.00 p.a.

Tuition Fee @`18/- p.m. 324.00 p.a.

Identity Card 10.00 p.a.

Athletics Association 50.00 p.a.

Cultural Fee 10.00 p.a.

Library Development Fee 200.00 p.a.

Computer Fee (*) 4000.00 p.a.

N.S.S. Fee 20.00 p.a.DSE Development Fee 500.00 p.a.

DSE Library Services Fee 1000.00 p.a.

University Development Fee 600.00 p.a.

Enrollment Fee 150.00 p.a.

University Library Fee 12.00 p.a.

Prevention of Sexual Harassment Fund 10.00 p.a.

Examination Fee (Part-I) 800.00 p.a.

Examination Fee (Part-II) 1000.00 p.a.

Examination Form 10.00 p.a.

Mark Sheet Fee 100.00 p.a.

*To alleviate the financial hardship of the needy students, the above fees may be fully orpartially waived, as per the assessment of a departmental committee. Needy students shouldsubmit an application at the time of depositing of admission fees for full/partial waiver for thecomputer fee. This application must be accompanied by a statement of circumstances, and acertificate of proof of the annual family income.

Examination Fee: Parts I and II `800/- each

Note: The structure of fees may change as per the University decision from time to time.

Ph.D.

Fee Rupees p.a./p.m.

Supervision Fee(p.m. from the date of registration to be paid annually)

20.00 p.m.

Enrollment Fee(to be paid at the time of admission by a candidate who is

joining the University afresh, otherwise a special annualfee of`50/-)

300.00 p.a.

University Development Fee 600.00 p.a.

Library Fee 12.00 p.a.Library Deposit (refundable) 1000.00 p.a.


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Athletic Fee 50.00 p.a.

Library Development Fee (non-refundable) 200.00 p.a.

Computer Fee* 4000.00 p.a.

DSE Development Fee 500.00 p.a.DSE Library Services Fee 1000.00 p.a.

Prevention of Sexual Harassment Fund 10.00 p.a.Additional Fee Payable by Foreign Students(Registration Fee and US $100/- as Special Fee) $ 500.00 p.a.

* To alleviate the financial hardship of the needy students, the above fees may be fully orpartially waived, as per the assessment of a departmental committee. Needy students shouldsubmit an application at the time of depositing of admission fees for full/partial waiver for thecomputer fee. This application must be accompanied by a statement of circumstances, and acertificate of proof of the annual family income.

Note

i. A research student who has been awarded bursary by the university shall be treated ashaving paid the supervision fee for the period for which the bursary is awarded.

ii. Members of the teaching staff of the University Colleges and the teachers of theHigher Secondary Schools recognized by the Central Board of Secondary Education,Delhi and such scholars as are working as Research Assistants/LibraryAssistants/Technical Assistants in the University of Delhi shall be exempted frompayment of supervision fees.

iii. Those who are exempted from payment of supervision fees under (i) and (ii) aboveshall be required to pay the Special Annual Fee of `3/- (in case of (i) and ResearchAssistants/ library Assistants/ Technical Assistants), and Athletic Fee of`5/- at thebeginning of each academic year.

iv. The structure of fees may change as per the University decision from time to time.

5. UGC-JRF RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS

The University Grants Commission holds a national level test as an eligibility condition forconsideration for the award of the Junior Research Fellowships for both M.Phil. and Ph.D.studies. The U.G.C. test is held at several university centres across the country. For detailsview UGC webpage: http://www.ugc.ac.in

6. RATAN TATA LIBRARY

The Ratan Tata Library of the Delhi School of Economics is one of the best-equippedlibraries in Economics and allied fields.

The total collection comprises of approximately 3.15 lakh volumes of books and bound

periodicals. More than 300 current titles of journals are being subscribed in the library. Thelibrary also receives annual reports of about 800 joint stock companies. The library has been


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designated as a repository of United Nations publications. It has a fairly large and well-organized collection of State and Central Government publications.

The library has inter-library loan arrangement with libraries all over the country to meet theresearch requirement of its research scholars and teachers. It has photocopying facilities

available to its students, research scholars and faculty members.

The Membership of the library is open to:

a. Teachers, research scholars, students and non-teaching staff of the DelhiSchool of Economics;

b. Teachers and post-graduate students of Economics, Commerce, Sociology,Geography of the University and its colleges,

c. There is a provision for consultation membership of the library for otherswanting to use it for specific purpose.

7. HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION AND MEDICAL FACILITIES

Hostel Accommodation

A. WomenA fifty-seat hostel exclusively for women students of the Delhi School of Economicscalled the Ambedkar Ganguly Students House for Women came on stream in July2003. For the women students of the Department of Economics about 26 seats in allwill be available. The hostel is located in Dhaka Colony (near Mukherjee Nagar), andit is adjacent to a bus terminus. It is about 10 minutes by bus from the Department of

Economics.

In addition, women students can also apply to the Meghdoot and the PostGraduateHostel for Women. Enquiry about the individual hostels should be made directly fromthe respective hostel offices.

B.MenFor male students several hostels of the University are situated on the UniversityCampus. These are V.K.R.V. Rao Hostel, Gwyer Hall, Jubilee Hall, MansaroverHostel, Post-graduate Mens Hostel, International Students House. Informationregarding these may be obtained directly from the respective hostel offices.

Accommodation in the above-mentioned hostels is available for a limited number ofwomen and men students of the School, viz., those who are admitted directly to theSchool as students of the M.A, M.Phil. and Ph.D. courses. Application foraccommodation must be made in prescribed forms obtainable from the Provost,V.K.R.V. Rao Hostel, Provost, Gwyer Hall, the Master, Jubilee Hall, the Provost,Post-Graduate Mens Hostel, International Student House, Mansarover Hostel,Ambedkar Ganguly Students House for Women, Meghdoot, and Post-graduateWomens Hostel, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007. The application must be routedthrough the Head of the Department. However, an advance copy may be sent directlyto the Hostel concerned. The merit list announced for admission to M.A. (Economics)

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Foreign students should contact the Foreign Students Advisor, Foreign StudentsRegistry, C/o, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 fortheir hostel accommodation as well as admission to any of the courses at the DelhiSchool of Economics.

Medical Facilities

Facilities of the World University Service (W.U.S.) Health Centre of the University of Delhiwill be available to students of the School. Hostel residents are required to Pay `240/- p.a.and day scholars`120/- p.a. for these facilities.

Note: Disputes, if any, arising out of or relating to any matter whatsoever, concerning

the process of admission shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent

Court in Delhi only.

8. RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005

Mr. Jay Chanda Ms. Alka SharmaDeputy Registrar (Information) & Registrar & Ist Appellate AuthorityCentral Public Information Officer, Old Vice Regal LodgeNew Administrative Block, University of Delhi,University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007Delhi-110 007. Phone No. 011-27667853Phone No. 011-27667623 Fax No. 011-27666350Fax No. 011-27667524

1. An application for obtaining information under the Right to Information Act, 2005can be made to the Central Public Information Officer.

2. The prescribed fee for filing the application is `10/- by way of cash against properreceipt or by way of bank demand draft or bankers cheque or Indian Postal Orderpayable to the Registrar, University of Delhi at Delhi.

3. An appeal can be preferred before the 1st Appellate Authority against the decisionof the Central Public Information Officer.

4. Manuals prepared under Section 4(1)(b) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 areavailable on the website of the University www.du.ac.in andin the office of the

Assistant Registrar (Establishment) and Assistant Registrar (Information), NewAdministrative Block, University of Delhi, Delhi-110 007.

9. IMPORTANT ORDINANCES OF UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

i) Ord. X-A Disorderly Conduct and Use of Unfair Means in Examinationii) Ord. X-B Withholding conferment of any Degree/Diploma or Award of any

Certificateiii) Ord. XV-B Maintenance of Discipline among Students of the Universityiv) Ord. XV-C Prohibition of and Punishment for Raggingv) Ord. XV-D Sexual Harassment

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