Dr. Swagata “Ban” Banerjee Associate Professor, Economics and Finance School of Business (SOB) | College of Humanities, Business, and Society (CHBS) Kentucky State University (KSU), https://kysu.edu 128 Bradford Hall | 400 East Main Street, Frankfort, KY 40601 (502) 597-6276; swagata.banerjee@kysu.edu

05/2004 Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Dissertation: “Multiproduct Rational Expectations Forecasting of Irrigation Water Demand: An Application to the Flint River Basin in Georgia” (under the direction of Dr. Michael E. Wetzstein) 08/1999 M.S. Resource and Applied Economics, University of Nevada – Reno, NV Thesis: “A Disaggregated Time-Series Analysis of Export Base Models in Elko County of Nevada” (under the direction of Dr. Thomas R. Harris) 05/1989 M.Sc. Economics, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, West Bengal, India Specialization: International Economics, Option: Economic Planning 08/1986 B.Sc.(H) Economics, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, West Bengal, India Minors: Political Science and Mathematics

08/2017-present Associate Professor, Economics and Finance, School of Business (SOB), erstwhile School of Business & Technology (SBT), until Spring 2020, Kentucky State University (KSU), Frankfort, KY

08/2012-08/2017 Associate Professor, Agribusiness, School of Agriculture (SOA), University of Wisconsin – Platteville (UWP), WI

08/2008-08/2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Agribusiness / merged-and-renamed Finance, Agribusiness and Economics in Fall 2011, Alabama A&M University (AAMU), Normal, AL

03/2004-06/2008 Post-Doctoral Associate, Delta Research & Extension Center, Mississippi State University (MSU), Stoneville, MS

08/1999-12/2003 Graduate Assistant, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, GA

09/1996-08/1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Applied Economics & Statistics, University of Nevada – Reno (UNR), NV

Major Academic Areas of Expertise/Interest: Production Economics; Natural Resource Economics; Experimental Economics; Emerging Technologies; Econometric Modeling; Mathematical Economics; Regional Economics; Economic Development; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management; Agribusiness Management

Currently teaching or taught recently at KSU (9 courses): BUA 204 – Business Communication (Spring 2019) BUA 320 – Business Statistics (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020 online) ECO 201 – Principles of Economics I (Fall 2019, Fall 2020 online) ECO 202 – Principles of Economics II (Summer 2018 online, Spring 2019, Summer 2019 online, Fall 2019, Summer 2020 online) ECO 321 – Quantitative Methods of Decision Making (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020 online) FIN 101 – Financial Literacy (Spring 2019) FIN 540 – Financial Institutions (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019) FIN 575 – Behavioral Finance (Spring 2018, Summers 2018 & 2019 online) MGT 560 – Human Behavior in Organizations (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)