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Assistant Dean (Research), Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities
Deputy Director, International Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building
Honorary Research Fellow, Jindal Global Law School
B.Tech. (NIT);
LL.M. (Erasmus Mundus Scholar from Europe);
Ph.D. (University of Hamburg)
Prof. (Dr.) Yugank Goyal is professor of economics. He received his joint doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Bologna and University of Hamburg. Earlier, he majored in law and economics from the same universities (and University of Manchester) for his masters. For both his masters and Ph.D., he was the Erasmus Mundus Fellow. He has an engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Surat in India.
He is the founding faculty member of OP Jindal Global University, where he assumed crucial role in institution building during its founding stage. He has been the assistant dean for research hand international collaboration, both in its law school as well as in the school of humanities. He enjoys doing interdisciplinary research and has been, of late, focusing more on institutions and knowledge, law and development, regulation and informality.
Yugank has taught in visiting capacity at IIM Ahmedabad, Vedica Scholars Programme, FLAME University and has been the docent at the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law & Policy. He routinely offers research advisory to organizations and government departments on public policy, regulatory and higher education. He sits on the Governing Council of the Indian School of Public Policy, and on the boards of emerging technology start-ups in India.
Select Journal Articles
Why do informal markets remain informal: the role of tacit knowledge in an Indian footwear cluster, Journal of Evolutionary Economics forthcoming (2021) (with Klaus Heine)
Working papers
Book Chapters
Book Reviews
Books
Reports and Government Projects
Select Newspaper Op-eds:
A policy to regulate coaching centres, Hindu, June 2019
Dear government, can we have some real liberalization, Deccan Herald, July 2018
Filmy Family Business, Indian Express, September 2017
Nitish embracing BJP: A Mockery of Voters, Deccan Herald, July 2017
Hindus and Muslims: the True Picture of Divorce, Live Mint July 2017
Access to Excellence. the Hindu, June 2017
BJP in 2017 is a worthier winner than SP in 2012. Quartz, March, 2017.
The Algebra of UP Assembly Elections, Live Mint, March, 2017.
The Ivy League’s dark history shows it is not easy to reject charity that involves dirty money. Quartz, February 2017.
Enriched by the Outsider. Indian Express, February 2017
Govt., give me a tax bargain. DNA, December 2016
The air we breathe: if not now, then when? Live Mint, November 2016
In defence of grade retention, Deccan Herald, October 2016
No Country for Teachers, Deccan Herald, September 2016
Shadow Education, Indian Express, June 2016
All that ails the Higher Education, Deccan Herald, June 2016
Foreign Universities in India: An Idea whose time has come, Deccan Herald, May 2016
Group Captive Plants can solve Industrial Units’ Power Woes, Deccan Herald, March 2016 (with Ranjan Ghosh)
The Algebra of Bihar Assembly, Live Mint, 16 November 2015
For Pleasure or For Profit: The Promises and Perils of Art Markets, the Caravan, August 2015.
Development Index with Missing Links, Hindu, October 2013
Yugank has taught Economics, Economic Analysis of Law, Institutions, Mathematical Thinking and Ethics. His course design is highly interdisciplinary.
His research has been under the broad umbrellas of regulation, markets and informality, knowledge structures, ethics, public policy, higher education, psephology and intellectual property rights.
Yugank led a unique project to prepare Gazetteer of Karnal district in Haryana in 2015-16. The project was awarded by government of Haryana and was conceptualized and executed under his leadership. This Gazetteer, arguably, is the first ever effort to be organized and written by someone outside the government. With a team of 32 scholars and researchers, the first volume was written and submitted in a span of merely five months.
The release is pending, but the Executive Summary can be downloaded here. For the complete gazetteer, please get in touch with him (email).
To get a sense of what are gazetteers, please visit the Digital South Asia Library archives by UChicago here, or the Indian government archives here.