Research Papers

1.Single Author

In Refereed Journals

• Withdrawal of the Multi-Fibre Agreement and Indian Textiles Industry: Concerns, Efforts and Achievements, Review of Development Economics, 25(3), 1397-1436,2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rode.12760
• Bank Ownership and Efficiency in India: Some Fresh Evidence, Keio Economic Studies, 50, 1-28, 2014; http://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/download.php/AA00260492-20140000-0001.pdf?file_id=94763
• Global Crisis, Environmental Volatility and Expansion of Indian Leather Industry, Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, 10 (1), 156-176, 2012; https://econpapers.repec.org/article/jqejqenew/v_3a10_3ay_3a2012_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a156-176.htm
• Total Factor Productivity Growth and its Decomposition: The Indian Banking Sector during Liberalization, Economic and Political Weekly, 47 (12), 68-76, 2012; https://www.jstor.org/stable/23214504?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
• On the Distribution of Estimated Technical Efficiency in Stochastic Frontier Models: Revisited, International Journal of Business and Economics, 10 (1), 69-80, 2011; https://ijbe.fcu.edu.tw/assets/ijbe/past_issue/No.10-1/pdf/vol_10-1-6.pdf
• Concentration, Entry Barriers and Profitability in the Indian Industries: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, 8 (2), 61-80, 2010; https://econpapers.repec.org/article/jqejqenew/v_3a8_3ay_3a2010_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a61-80.htm

2. Jointly with MA students, from their Project dissertation

In Refereed Journals

• An Investigation into the Selected Non-banking Financial Companies in India: Performance, Concerns, and Regulatory Requirements. (with Nithin Pradeep), Economic and Political Weekly,57 (44-45), 49-57, 2022. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/44-45/special-articles/investigation-selected-non-banking-financial.html
• Kerala State Road Transport Corporation: A Relook at Its Efficiency and Potential (with P. Sreelakshmi), Economic and Political Weekly, 55 (48), 57-64, 2020. https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/48/special-articles/kerala-state-road-transport-corporation.html
• Institutionalist versus Distortionist Views of Labor Market Reforms: An Investigation into the Post-Liberalized Manufacturing Sector in India (with A. Sudarsan), Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science, 21 (41), 63-72, 2016; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2077188616300208

3. Jointly with Doctoral Scholars

In Refereed Journals

• Dynamics of total factor productivity growth: An empirical analysis of Indian commercial banks (with Md Shahid Zaman and Vipin V.) Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 26, November 2022. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1703494922000287
• Stressed Assets, Off-Balance Sheet Business Activities and Performance of Indian Banking Sector: A DEA Double Bootstrap Approach (with Md Shahid Zaman),Studies in Economics and Finance. 39 (4), 572 – 592, 2022. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SEF-09-2020-0369/full/html
• Financial Deregulation, Competition and Cost Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: Is there any Convergence? (with Md. Shahid Zaman), Indian Economic Review, 55 (2), 283-312, 2020. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41775-020-00100-7
• Outsourcing and Firm Performance Nexus: An Analysis Using the Conventional and Panel Double-bootstrap Procedure (with Vipin V.), Research in International Business and Finance, Vol. 54 (December 2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0275531919302363?dgcid=coauthor#
• Conventional Procedure vis-à-vis Bootstrap-Based Corrections of Efficiency Analyses (with Vipin V.), Indian Growth and Development Review, 13 (3), 505-536, 2020. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IGDR-04-2019-0035/full/html
• Credit Risk – Return Puzzle: Evidence from India (with Elizabeth N.), Economic Modelling 92, 195-206, 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999319305528 
• Efficiency and Related Technological Aspects of the Indian Food Processing Industry: A Non-Parametric Analysis (with Vipin, V.), The Journal of Developing Areas, 50 (6), (Special Issue), 227-243, 2016; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/626804/pdf

In Edited Volume

• Investors’ Attention and Stock Returns: Recent Indian Evidence (with Elizabeth N.) in Contemporary Issues in Econometrics: Theory and Application, by Anil K. Bera and Srikanta Kundu (Eds.), Springer International, (Forthcoming).

4. Jointly with Mentors

In Refereed Journals

• Efficiency of the Indian Leather Firms: Some Results Obtained using the Two Conventional Methods (with Pradip Maiti), Journal of Productivity Analysis, 37 (1), 73-93, 2012; https://www.jstor.org/stable/43548527. Also available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11123-011-0219-1
• Technical Efficiency in the Indian Textiles Industry: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Firm-Level Data (with Subhash C. Ray), Bulletin of Economic Research, 64 (1), 109-124, 2012; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2010.00381.x
• Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing Firms: Textile Industry as a Case Study (with Pradip Maiti), International Journal of Business and Economics, 6 (1), 71-88, 2007; https://ijbe.fcu.edu.tw/assets/ijbe/past_issue/No.06-1/pdf/vol_6-1-6.pdf

In Edited Volume

• Efficiency of Indian Leather Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Pradip Maiti) in Themes on Quantitative Economics, by Arpita Dhar (Ed.), The Allied Publishers.

5. Jointly with other collaborators

In Refereed Journals

• Does Win-Win Opportunity always Result in Pollution Abatement? An Application of Directional Distance Function to Indian Cement Industry” (with Sabuj K. Mandal), The Journal of Developing Areas, 54 (4), 161-174, 2020. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/738668/pdf

In Edited Volume

• Productive Efficiency of Agricultural Sector in Uttar Pradesh (with K. S. Khati and D. Mukherjee) in Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development: The Case of India, by T. Chakraborty, D. Mukherjee, and S. Saha (Eds.), Routledge India, ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-138-22710-1, 2020.
• Productivity, Technical Progress and Scale Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing: New Evidence using Non-Parametric Approach (with other co-authors) in Productivity in Indian Manufacturing: Measurement, Methods and Analysis by Vinish Kathuria, Kunal Sen and Rajesh Raj (Eds.), The Rutledge.

Current Research Papers

• Conducive Impact of Packing Credit against Short Term Bank Loan in Financing Export: Evidence from India (with Gargi Sanati and Rudra Ray) [2nd revised version is submitted]
• Stability of Cooperative Banks in Kerala: A Comparative Study of Banks across Ownership Structures (with Hasna M. Ashraf) [Submitted to a Journal for Publication]
• Recovery Induced Operational Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: An Alternative Approach to Accommodate Stressed Assets as Undesirable By-products (with Gargi Sanati) [Written under the (offered to us) Scholarship for Faculty Members from Academic Institutions, 2020 by the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) Scheme. The Paper is Submitted to the RBI for Further Procedures]
• Risk Factors, Uncertainty and Investment Decision: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows in India (with Elizabeth N.) [Submitted to a journal for Publication]
• Towards a Better Measure of Productivity in India: A Case of Chemical and Chemical Products Industry (with Vipin V.) [Submitted to a journal for Publication]

Research Guidance

• Guided Three Ph.D. scholars (degree awarded)
  • “Credit Risk, Investor Attention and Investment Decisions: An Empirical Investigation into the Indian Equity Market”—by Elizabeth N. (Solo Guidance)
  • “Performance of Indian Commercial Banks: A Post Deregulation Experience”—by Md. Shahid Zaman (Solo Guidance)
  • “Performance of Indian Industries: Conventional and Bootstrap-Based Inferences”—by Vipin V. (Solo Guidance)
• Currently guiding Two regular (sole guidance) and two external Ph.D. scholars at the IIT Madras
• (Jointly with other colleagues) Guided FOUR students to complete their MPhil Dissertation at the Centre for Development Studies.
• A number of students completed MA projects under my guidance
• Guided two Interns to complete a short-term research project during summer vacations successfully.

Research Project

Ongoing

• Performance benchmarking of school education system in India: A case study of Bihar and UP. (Jointly with collaborators from IIT Roorkee and South Asian University).

Completed

• Participated as a group member in completing the Planning Commission of India’s project Mid-term Appraisal of Eleventh Five-Year Plan of Kerala. The project report is already submitted to the Planning Commission.
• An Assessment of Performance of Indian Textiles Industry: 1999-2000 to 2014-15 (Submitted the Final Report) (The Report is Accepted and Recommended for Publication by the ICSSR) (ICSSR funded project, valued INR 9 Lakh)
• Capital Asset Pricing Model: An Investigation into the Indian Stock Market (NFSC Project at IIT Madras)

IIT Madras – Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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April 19, 2023

Research Papers

1.Single Author

In Refereed Journals

• Withdrawal of the Multi-Fibre Agreement and Indian Textiles Industry: Concerns, Efforts and Achievements, Review of Development Economics, 25(3), 1397-1436,2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rode.12760
• Bank Ownership and Efficiency in India: Some Fresh Evidence, Keio Economic Studies, 50, 1-28, 2014; http://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/download.php/AA00260492-20140000-0001.pdf?file_id=94763
• Global Crisis, Environmental Volatility and Expansion of Indian Leather Industry, Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, 10 (1), 156-176, 2012; https://econpapers.repec.org/article/jqejqenew/v_3a10_3ay_3a2012_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a156-176.htm
• Total Factor Productivity Growth and its Decomposition: The Indian Banking Sector during Liberalization, Economic and Political Weekly, 47 (12), 68-76, 2012; https://www.jstor.org/stable/23214504?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
• On the Distribution of Estimated Technical Efficiency in Stochastic Frontier Models: Revisited, International Journal of Business and Economics, 10 (1), 69-80, 2011; https://ijbe.fcu.edu.tw/assets/ijbe/past_issue/No.10-1/pdf/vol_10-1-6.pdf
• Concentration, Entry Barriers and Profitability in the Indian Industries: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, 8 (2), 61-80, 2010; https://econpapers.repec.org/article/jqejqenew/v_3a8_3ay_3a2010_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a61-80.htm

2. Jointly with MA students, from their Project dissertation

In Refereed Journals

• An Investigation into the Selected Non-banking Financial Companies in India: Performance, Concerns, and Regulatory Requirements. (with Nithin Pradeep), Economic and Political Weekly,57 (44-45), 49-57, 2022. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/44-45/special-articles/investigation-selected-non-banking-financial.html
• Kerala State Road Transport Corporation: A Relook at Its Efficiency and Potential (with P. Sreelakshmi), Economic and Political Weekly, 55 (48), 57-64, 2020. https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/48/special-articles/kerala-state-road-transport-corporation.html
• Institutionalist versus Distortionist Views of Labor Market Reforms: An Investigation into the Post-Liberalized Manufacturing Sector in India (with A. Sudarsan), Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science, 21 (41), 63-72, 2016; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2077188616300208

3. Jointly with Doctoral Scholars

In Refereed Journals

• Dynamics of total factor productivity growth: An empirical analysis of Indian commercial banks (with Md Shahid Zaman and Vipin V.) Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 26, November 2022. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1703494922000287
• Stressed Assets, Off-Balance Sheet Business Activities and Performance of Indian Banking Sector: A DEA Double Bootstrap Approach (with Md Shahid Zaman),Studies in Economics and Finance. 39 (4), 572 – 592, 2022. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SEF-09-2020-0369/full/html
• Financial Deregulation, Competition and Cost Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: Is there any Convergence? (with Md. Shahid Zaman), Indian Economic Review, 55 (2), 283-312, 2020. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41775-020-00100-7
• Outsourcing and Firm Performance Nexus: An Analysis Using the Conventional and Panel Double-bootstrap Procedure (with Vipin V.), Research in International Business and Finance, Vol. 54 (December 2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0275531919302363?dgcid=coauthor#
• Conventional Procedure vis-à-vis Bootstrap-Based Corrections of Efficiency Analyses (with Vipin V.), Indian Growth and Development Review, 13 (3), 505-536, 2020. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IGDR-04-2019-0035/full/html
• Credit Risk – Return Puzzle: Evidence from India (with Elizabeth N.), Economic Modelling 92, 195-206, 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999319305528 
• Efficiency and Related Technological Aspects of the Indian Food Processing Industry: A Non-Parametric Analysis (with Vipin, V.), The Journal of Developing Areas, 50 (6), (Special Issue), 227-243, 2016; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/626804/pdf

In Edited Volume

• Investors’ Attention and Stock Returns: Recent Indian Evidence (with Elizabeth N.) in Contemporary Issues in Econometrics: Theory and Application, by Anil K. Bera and Srikanta Kundu (Eds.), Springer International, (Forthcoming).

4. Jointly with Mentors

In Refereed Journals

• Efficiency of the Indian Leather Firms: Some Results Obtained using the Two Conventional Methods (with Pradip Maiti), Journal of Productivity Analysis, 37 (1), 73-93, 2012; https://www.jstor.org/stable/43548527. Also available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11123-011-0219-1
• Technical Efficiency in the Indian Textiles Industry: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Firm-Level Data (with Subhash C. Ray), Bulletin of Economic Research, 64 (1), 109-124, 2012; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2010.00381.x
• Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing Firms: Textile Industry as a Case Study (with Pradip Maiti), International Journal of Business and Economics, 6 (1), 71-88, 2007; https://ijbe.fcu.edu.tw/assets/ijbe/past_issue/No.06-1/pdf/vol_6-1-6.pdf

In Edited Volume

• Efficiency of Indian Leather Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Pradip Maiti) in Themes on Quantitative Economics, by Arpita Dhar (Ed.), The Allied Publishers.

5. Jointly with other collaborators

In Refereed Journals

• Does Win-Win Opportunity always Result in Pollution Abatement? An Application of Directional Distance Function to Indian Cement Industry” (with Sabuj K. Mandal), The Journal of Developing Areas, 54 (4), 161-174, 2020. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/738668/pdf

In Edited Volume

• Productive Efficiency of Agricultural Sector in Uttar Pradesh (with K. S. Khati and D. Mukherjee) in Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development: The Case of India, by T. Chakraborty, D. Mukherjee, and S. Saha (Eds.), Routledge India, ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-138-22710-1, 2020.
• Productivity, Technical Progress and Scale Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing: New Evidence using Non-Parametric Approach (with other co-authors) in Productivity in Indian Manufacturing: Measurement, Methods and Analysis by Vinish Kathuria, Kunal Sen and Rajesh Raj (Eds.), The Rutledge.

Current Research Papers

• Conducive Impact of Packing Credit against Short Term Bank Loan in Financing Export: Evidence from India (with Gargi Sanati and Rudra Ray) [2nd revised version is submitted]
• Stability of Cooperative Banks in Kerala: A Comparative Study of Banks across Ownership Structures (with Hasna M. Ashraf) [Submitted to a Journal for Publication]
• Recovery Induced Operational Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: An Alternative Approach to Accommodate Stressed Assets as Undesirable By-products (with Gargi Sanati) [Written under the (offered to us) Scholarship for Faculty Members from Academic Institutions, 2020 by the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) Scheme. The Paper is Submitted to the RBI for Further Procedures]
• Risk Factors, Uncertainty and Investment Decision: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows in India (with Elizabeth N.) [Submitted to a journal for Publication]
• Towards a Better Measure of Productivity in India: A Case of Chemical and Chemical Products Industry (with Vipin V.) [Submitted to a journal for Publication]

Research Guidance

• Guided Three Ph.D. scholars (degree awarded)
  • “Credit Risk, Investor Attention and Investment Decisions: An Empirical Investigation into the Indian Equity Market”—by Elizabeth N. (Solo Guidance)
  • “Performance of Indian Commercial Banks: A Post Deregulation Experience”—by Md. Shahid Zaman (Solo Guidance)
  • “Performance of Indian Industries: Conventional and Bootstrap-Based Inferences”—by Vipin V. (Solo Guidance)
• Currently guiding Two regular (sole guidance) and two external Ph.D. scholars at the IIT Madras
• (Jointly with other colleagues) Guided FOUR students to complete their MPhil Dissertation at the Centre for Development Studies.
• A number of students completed MA projects under my guidance
• Guided two Interns to complete a short-term research project during summer vacations successfully.

Research Project

Ongoing

• Performance benchmarking of school education system in India: A case study of Bihar and UP. (Jointly with collaborators from IIT Roorkee and South Asian University).

Completed

• Participated as a group member in completing the Planning Commission of India’s project Mid-term Appraisal of Eleventh Five-Year Plan of Kerala. The project report is already submitted to the Planning Commission.
• An Assessment of Performance of Indian Textiles Industry: 1999-2000 to 2014-15 (Submitted the Final Report) (The Report is Accepted and Recommended for Publication by the ICSSR) (ICSSR funded project, valued INR 9 Lakh)
• Capital Asset Pricing Model: An Investigation into the Indian Stock Market (NFSC Project at IIT Madras)

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