University of Calcutta
Admission Notice
M.Phil in Economics for
the Session 2014-2016
Applications are
invited for admission to the two-year M.Phil. Programme in Economics for the Session
2014-2016. The number of seats is 15 (inclusive of reservation).
Eligibility:
Any candidate who has
passed the M.A./M.Sc. Examination in Economics of this University with 55%
marks in aggregate (SC/ST with 50% marks) or with 60% marks in aggregate of any
other recognized University is eligible to apply to the M.Phil Programme.
Students, likely to complete M.A./ M.Sc. Part-II Examination in Economics by
June 30, 2014, are also eligible to apply. Their admission will be provisional
subject to satisfying minimum eligibility criterion by August 31, 2014.
Selection will be on the basis of an entrance test followed by an interview. Candidates
who have qualified in NET, SET or equivalent national level examination are
exempt
from the entrance
test, but not from the interview. The candidates, found eligible through entrance
test and those exempted from entrance test, would be invited to submit an
“Expression of Interest”, which would be a brief write up (not exceeding 250
words) on any area of interest connected with the discipline of Economics on
which a final interview will be conducted. The list of finally selected
candidates (on the basis of final interview only) would be posted in the University
web-site and Departmental Notice Board.
Syllabus for Entrance Test:
Microeconomic
Theory: Consumer Behaviour, Theory of Firm, Analysis of Market Structure,
Theory of Distribution, General Equilibrium, Welfare Economics, Asymmetric Information,
Public Goods & Externalities;
Macroeconomic
Theory: National Income Accounting, Aggregate Demand-Simple Keynesian Model,
IS-LM Model, Interaction Between Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply-
Short-run & Long-run Equilibrium, Classical Full Employment Model Determination
of Real Wage, Interest Rate & Price Level, Demand for Money, Supply of
Money, Consumption Function, Investment Function, Inflation, Trade-cycle & Growth,
Open-economy Macroeconomics;
Statistics &
Econometrics: Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, Higher Order Moments,
Correlation, Theory of Probability, Theory of Statistical Inference, Classical Linear
Regression Model (both 2-variable & k-variable cases)- Estimation,
Hypothesis Testing & Prediction, Heteroscadasticity, Autocorrelation &
Multicollinearity, Simultaneous Equation System & the Problem of Identification;
Mathematical
Economics: Optimization in Economics (Static & Dynamic), System of Simultaneous
Equations and Cramer’s Rule, Input-Output Analysis, Linear Programming,
Elements of Game Theory;
Structure of the Entrance Test: .
The M. Phil.
Entrance test is of 100 marks. The qualifying mark is 50%. Duration of the test
is two hours.
There will be 50
multiple choice questions (MCQ), each of 2 marks. For each MCQ there will be
negative marking (1 mark).
MCQs will be on
Microeconomic Theory (30 marks), Macroeconomic Theory (30 marks), Statistics,
Econometrics (20 marks) and Mathematical Economics (20 marks).
Form:
Application forms
would be available at C.U. Sales Counter (College Street Campus) from 10.30
a.m. to 3.00 p.m. on
all working days on payment of Rs. 465/- for form plus Rs. 35/- for copy of
a Brochure, from May
26, 2014 (Monday).
Submission of Forms:
Completed application
forms will be received by the office of the Senior Secretary, University
College of Arts and
Commerce (UCAC) College Street Campus, Asutosh Building, Ground
Floor, Room No. 3G
between 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. on all working days up to June 13, 2014.
Reservation:
Reservation for SC,
ST and Physically Handicapped will be made as per University/ Government
Rules.
Course Fees:
Rs. 4,000.00 (Rupees
Four Thousand) in cash is to be paid by the selected candidates at the time
of admission.
The complete schedule
is as under:
Issuing of Application Forms begins from May
26, 2014 (Monday).
Last Date of Receipt of application: June 13,
2014 (Friday) in the UCAC Office;
Date of Publication of List of candidates
eligible to sit in the entrance test: June 25, 2014 (Wednesday) in the Notice
Board of the Department of Economics, CU;
Date of Entrance (Written) Test: July 4, 2014
(Friday), 1-3 p.m. in the Department of Economics, CU;
Date of Publication of Entrance Test Result:
July 14, 2014 (Monday), in the Notice Board of the Department of Economics, CU;
Last Date of Receipt of “Expression of
Interest”: July 21, 2014 (Monday), in the Office of the Department of
Economics, CU;
Date of Interview: July 25, 2014 (Friday), from
11 a.m. in the Department of Economics, CU;
Dated: April 28, 2014
Senior Secretary,
UCAC, CU.
Asutosh Building
87/1, College Street
Kolkata – 700073.
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