Rate My Professor Aniruddha Bagchi

Aniruddha Bagchi is a Professor in Business & Economics, holding the position of Department Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis at Kennesaw State University's Coles College of Business. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University obtained in 2006, a Master of Arts in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in India, and a Bachelor of Science from Presidency College in Kolkata, India. Bagchi's scholarly pursuits center on applying economic theory, particularly game-theoretic frameworks, to complex policy challenges in security and innovation.

Bagchi's research specializations encompass homeland security, intellectual property rights, the economics of terrorism and cyber threats, technology transfer and licensing, workplace deviance, immigration impacts, and healthcare policy under certificate of need laws. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals. Key publications include 'National security vs. human rights: A game theoretic analysis of the tension between these objectives' with J. A. Paul (European Journal of Operational Research, 2021), which models conflicts between security imperatives and civil liberties; 'A model of a multilateral proxy war with spillovers' with J. R. Faria and T. Mathews (Public Choice, 2019); 'Role of intelligence inputs in defending against cyber warfare and cyber terrorism' with T. Bandyopadhyay (Decision Analysis, 2018); 'Espionage and the optimal standard of the Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program in maritime security' with J. A. Paul (European Journal of Operational Research, 2017); and 'Optimal allocation of resources in airport security: Profiling vs. screening' with J. A. Paul (Operations Research, 2014). Additional significant works are 'Technology licensing in a differentiated oligopoly' with A. Mukherjee (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2014); 'Youth unemployment and terrorism in the MENAP (Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan) region' with J. A. Paul (Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2018); 'Immigration, Terrorism, and the Economy' (2023); 'Conflicts with Momentum' (2022); 'Patents versus rewards: The implications of production inefficiency' (2020); 'Information Disclosure through Technology Licensing' (2020); and 'The Refugee Game: The Relationship between Individual Security Expenditures and Collective Security' (2020). These contributions have advanced discourse on optimal resource allocation in security contexts and innovation incentives within Business & Economics frameworks.