FACULTY STAFF

Profile

Qualifications

BSc and MSc, Calcutta, India
MA and PhD State University of New York at Albany

Experience

Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Research

Applied Econometrics, Empirical Development Economics and Political Economy

Teaching

Economic Growth (Undergraduate)
Mathematics for Economics and Business (Undergraduate)

Economic Growth (Postgraduate)

Publications

Published Papers

A New Perspective on Violent Crime Burden Index: Evidence from Indian Districts (co-author P. Chowdhury and K. Reilly), Social Indicators Research (forthcoming)

Credit Rationing in Rural Credit Markets of India (co-author M. Cherical), Applied Economics (forthcoming)

The Effects of Political Events on the Stock Market: Evidence from India (co-author Manu), Journal of Quantitative Economics (forthcoming)

Gender gap in educational attainment: evidence from rural India (co-author S. Roy), Education Economics, Volume 17, No. 2, 215-238, June 2009

U.S. Natural-Gas Volatility and the Collapse of Enron (co-author S. Abosedra and A. Dah), The Journal of Energy and Development (forthcoming)   

School Dropouts and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis (co-author P.  Maitra), Review of Development Economics, Volume 12, No.1, 90 – 105, February 2008.  

Non-Performing Assets in Indian Banking: Magnitude, Determinants and Impact of Recent Policy Initiative, (co-author R. Sensarma), India Development Report (Chapter 9), edited by Prof. K. S. Parikh and Prof. R. Radhakrishna, 2007.   

Antenatal and Maternal Health Care Utilization: Evidence from North-Eastern States of India (co-author A. Chakrabarti), Applied Economics, Volume 39, No. 6, 683 – 695, August 2007.   

A Dynamic Panel Macroeconometric Model for Labour Markets: Evidence across Australian States (co-author J. Sheen), Topics in Macroeconomics, The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Volume 7, Issue 1, Article 1, January 2007, Available at: www.bepress.com/bejm/vol7/iss1/art1   

Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure Evenly across the Two Genders? (co-author S. Roy), Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 41, No. 51, December 23, 2006

WTO, the TRIPs and Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (co-author S. Das), Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series Volume 4, No. 1, 97-110, November 2006  

The Size and Development of the Shadow Economy: an Empirical Investigation from States of India (co-author S. Chattopadhyay and F. Schneider), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 80(26), 428-443, August 2006  

Political Budget Cycles in Indian States: an Empirical Investigation (co-author S. Dasgupta), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42(4), 640 - 661, May 2006

The Political Determinants of Central governments’ Economic Policies in India: an Empirical Investigation (co-author S. Dasgupta), Journal of International Development, Vol. 17(7), 957 – 978, October 2005

Is Devaluation working? Evidence from India in phase of Economic Liberalization, Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, Vol. 3(2), 67 – 81, July 2005  

An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Disputes: Evidence from Indian States (co-author R. Pal), Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, Vol. 3(1), 115-132, January 2005  

Purchasing Power Parity across States and Goods within Australia (co-author J. Sheen), Economic Record, Volume 80(250), 314-329, September 2004   

Deficit, Money and Price: the Indian Experience (co-author S. Chattopadhyay and S. Asra) Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 26(3), 289-299, April 2004  

Fluctuations in Output in Indian Agriculture and Industry- a Reexamination (co-author R. Kavita Rao) Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 26(2), 223-237, February 2004   

Stock Market and Aggregate Economic Activity: Evidence from Australia (co-author S. Smiles) Applied Financial Economics, Volume 14(2), 121-129, January 2004  

Mean Reversion in Stock Returns in Emerging Markets: Evidence using Panel data (co-author Y. Wu) Managerial Finance, Volume 30(1), 22-37, January 2004  

Random Walk versus Breaking Trend in Stock Prices: Evidence from Emerging Markets (co-author Y. Wu), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 27(4), 575-592, April 2003.   

Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations in Indian Currency: Role of Real and Nominal Factors, The Empirical Economics Letters, Volume 1(2), November 2002  

Convergence of Inflation Rates during Flexible Exchange Rate Period, Indian Economic Review, 37(1), 59-68, Jan.-June 2002  

Electoral Cycles and The Economic Policies of Governments in India (co-author S. Dasgupta), India Development Report (Chapter 15), edited by Prof. K. S. Parikh and Prof. R. Radhakrishna  

Impact of Terrorist Attacks in US: Examination of some Macroeconomic Variables (co-author R. Sensarma), Economic and Political Weekly, 4346 – 4350, November 24, 2001

Volatility of Stock Returns: Importance of Economic Fundamentals (co-author K. Koo), Economic and Political Weekly, 3852 - 3856, October 6, 2001

Long Run Prices of Primary Commodities and Oil Prices, Applied Economics, 33 (4), 531 – 538, March 2001   

Dearth of Private Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa, (co-author D. K. Srivastava), Applied Economic Letters, 6(6), 365 – 368, June 1999  

Long Run Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates and Oil Prices, (co-author Betty Daniel), Economic Letters, 58(2), 231 – 238, February 1998

Purchasing Power Parity: Evidence from South Asian Economies, Indian Journal of Economics, 291 – 303, January 1998  

Cointegration, Error Correction and Granger Causality: an Application with Latin American Stock Markets, Applied Economics Letters, 4(8), 469-471, August 1997  

Stock Returns in Emerging Markets: a Common Trend Analysis, Applied Economic Letters, 4(2), 105-108, February 1997

Book Review
 
Development Microeconomics by P. Bardhan and C. Udry in Economic and Political Weekly, 1518, May 5-11, 2001.


Working Paper

Crime in India: Specification and Estimation of Violent Crime Index (co-author P. Chowdhury and S. Kumbhakar)

Communication and similarities in child educational preferences amongst partners (co-author K. Reilly)

Can Autonomy before Marriage Exert Autonomy after Marriage? Evidence on Female Autonomy from India (co-author K. Reilly)

Does the Subsidized Credit or Public Works Program Work? Evidence from Rural India (co-author D. Dasgupta)

Financial Performance Evaluation: A Structural Equation Approach (co-author T. Chowdhury)

Long Memory in Turnover: Evaluation and Forecasting (co-author A. Kumar)

A Markov-Switching Model for Indian Stock Price and Volume (co-author A. Kumar)

Clustering, Inter-Family Heterogeneity and School Attendance (co-author D. Dasgupta)

On Delays in Project Completion with Cost Reduction: An Experiment (co-author S. Sarkar)

Modeling International Tourist Arrival: should we worry about socio-political factors? (co-author R. Dhraiwal)

Are the behavioral factors important in determining volume? Evidence from an Emerging Market (co-author A. Kumar)

Forecasting Time-varying Densities of Inflation Rates: A Functional Autoregressive Approach (co-author M. Kim and Y. Shin)