Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India (Since January 2024)
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India (July 2016 – December 2023)
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India (December 2012 – July 2016)
Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Prasanth Nagar Road, Ulloor, Trivandrum, Kerala 695011, India (July 2009 – December 2012)
Economist, ICRA Ltd., Kolkata (February 2008 – July 2009)
Part-Time Research Fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (August 2007 – February 2008)
Completed Tenure as a Full-Time Research Fellow in the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (August 2002 – July 2007)
Taught Microeconomics, Statistics, Econometrics, Issues in Indian Industrial Development at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India
Instructed the IT Lab (#HM1140), Econometrics (#HS4011) and Applied Econometrics (#HS6510) to the Integrated MA Students of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras
I also taught two contact courses to two final year students (one from Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Course: Optimization and Economic Theory) and the other from the Department of Engineering Design (Course: Principles of Economics), IIT Madras) in Summer 2013
Currently teaching Statistics (#HS3014) and Microeconomics (#HS3023) (as core courses to the Integrated MA students) and Principles of Economics (#HS3002) and Production Economics: Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (#HS6140) (as electives to the B Tech students) at IIT Madras.
2. Jointly with MA students, from their Project dissertation
In Refereed Journals
Stability of Cooperative Banks in Kerala, India: A Comparative Study of Banks across Ownership Structures (with H. M. Ashraf), Prajnan, April-June 2023, 52 (1), 29-56; https://www.nibmindia.org/prajnan/
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
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
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).
Efficiency of Indian Leather Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Pradip Maiti) in Themes on Quantitative Economics, by Arpita Dhar (Ed.), The Allied Publishers.
Dynamics of Operational Efficiency in Credit Lending and Recovery of Stressed Assets: An Alternative Approach with Undesirable By-Products (with G. Sanati), Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2024. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40953-024-00389-8
Distinctive Pay-Off of Packing Credit and Alternate Bank Credits for Large and Small Exporters of India: A Nonlinear Approach (with G. Sanati and R. P. Ray), Global Business Review, 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09721509231152984
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
“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)
Organized (Jointly with other colleagues) XI Annual Conference of the Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing (FGKS) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, December 3-5, 2016; Theme: Globalization of Technology and Development.
Organized (Jointly with other colleagues) XIV Annual Conference of the Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing (FGKS) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, October 11-13, 2019; Theme: Technology and Economy.
Dynamics of Operational Efficiency in Credit Lending and Recovery of Stressed Assets: An Alternative Approach with Undesirable By-Products, presented at the 18th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal during June 18-21, 2024.
Financial Deregulation, Competition and Cost Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: Is there any Convergence?, presented at the Workshop on Data Envelopment Analysis for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking during January 12-14, 2020
Performance of Indian Textiles Industry: A Non-Parametric Analysis for the Last One and Half Decade, presented (online) at the 16th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis organized by the Jianghan University, Wuhan, China during October 25-28, 2018
15th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Loughborough University, London, UK during June 12-15, 2017
52nd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society held at IIM Kozhikode, Kerala, India during January 4-6, 2016
ESRC Productivity Workshop held at Sailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India during March 18-19, 2011
47th Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society held at Devi Ahilya University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India during January 6-8, 2011
CAS Conference at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India during January 7-8, 2010
The 3rd ECONference at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India during December 29-30, 2009.
The 30th Anniversary Conference of the Institute of Rural Management Anand, Anand, Gujarat, India during December 15-16, 2009
UGC-SAP Conference at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India during January 31 – February 2, 2008
5th International Symposium on DEA at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India during January 5-7, 2007
South and South East Asia Econometric Society Meeting (SAMES06) at The Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, India during December 18-20, 2006
3rd Annual Conference of Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi during December 13-15, 2006
Presented a paper in the 2nd International Conference on Issues in Development Economics, Department of Economics, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, January 30-31, 2006
