Arnab Bhattacharjee

Arnab Bhattacharjee is a Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and affiliated with Edinburgh Business School. His research spans economics, spatial econometrics, climate sustainability, and policy analysis, with a focus on regional disparities, housing markets, and health outcomes.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Economics of regional development and policy
  • Spatial econometric modeling of housing markets
  • Climate sustainability and policy evaluation
  • Bayesian methods in macroeconomic forecasting
  • Network dynamics in financial and economic systems
• Recent Publications:
  • 2024 articles on FOMC policy heterogeneity, gun violence modeling, optimal transport in economics, and UK macroeconomic outlook
  • Developed NiReMS for household-level regional modeling
  • Contributions to inflation-at-risk and spatio-temporal econometrics
• Scientific Awards:
  • Distinguished Paper Award (Academy of Management, 2010)
  • Hind Rattan Award (Government of India, 2016)
  • Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2020)
  • FRSA (2023)
  • Life Member, International Statistical Institute (2004)
• Collaborations:
  • National Institute Economic Review
  • NiReMS project
  • Bayesian structural time series modeling
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 11, SDG 13)