Anand B

Qualification

PhD in Economics
Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry.
Title of the Theses- Oil Price Pass Through

M.A in Development Economics
Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry.
UGC NET -2012 December

Areas of Specialization

Macroeconomics,Public Policy

Interest Areas

Open economy macroeconomics, Public Policy, Monetary Economics, Indian Economy

Work Experience:

• 2017 May Onwards-Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.
• 2016 February - 2017 April, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Christ University, Bengaluru.
• 2015 January - 2016 January, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer. (Ad hoc)
• 2014 June - 2014 October-Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore.

Publications:

• Anand, B., & Paul, S. (2021). Oil shocks and stock market: Revisiting the dynamics. Energy Economics, 96, 105111 (Elsevier).
• Nair, A. R., & Anand, B. (2020). "Monetary policy and financial stability: Should central bank lean against the wind?.” Central Bank Review (Elsevier) 20,133-142.
• Anand, Sunil Paul, M.Ramachandran (2014). "Volatility Spillover between Oil and Stock Market Returns", Indian Economic Review, Springer Vol.XLIX, 37-57.
• Anand. B "Volatility spillover between oil prices and select macroeconomic variables in India" Econometric Applications in Management, Edited by R.C. Sharma and Sanjay Kumar Garg, Published by National Publishing house, New Delhi. ISBN No- 9788180181351

Current Research:

• Oil and Macroeconomy
• Kerala Model of Development
• Central Bank intervention and exchange rate volatility
• Monetary Policy and financial cycles.

Working Papers

B. Anand, Sunil Paul, M.Ramachandran (2014). "Volatility Spillover between Oil and Stock Market Returns", Madras School of Economics Working Paper 95/2014.

Awards

• Best Faculty at Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics 2020-21
• Received the best paper award for the paper titled "Time Varying Dynamics of Volatility Spillover between Oil and Stock Returns: A Comparison between India and China” presented at ‘Conference on Applied Economics and Finance’ held at the Goa Institute of Management (GIM), Goa (December 16-18, 2019).
• Received the second best paper award for the paper titled Spillover Transmission between Oil and Stock Market Returns: A Frequency Domain Approach" presented at 13th Capital Markets Conference (Dec-18-19 2014) jointly held by Indian Institute of Capital Markets and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics at Mumbai

Popular Articles

Papers Presented in Conferences and Seminars

• Anand B, Sunil Paul. "Time Varying Dynamics of Volatility Spillover between Oil and Stock Returns: A Comparison between India and China” presented at ‘Conference on Applied Economics and Finance held at the Goa Institute of Management, Goa (December 16-18, 2019).
• Aswathi R Nair, Anand. B. "State Owned Banks: Do we need anymore?" Presented at Economics Conference on 50 Years of Bank Nationalization: Indian Banking at Cross Roads.(November 16-17, 2019) held at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.
• Aswathi R Nair, Anand. B. "Changing contours of RBI's Monetary Policy: The pursuit for financial stability". Presented at the ‘International Seminar on Money, Growth, and Macroeconomic Policies in India (January, 17-19), held at University of Calicut, Kerala.
• Anand.B, Sunil Paul. "Time varying dynamics of volatility spillover between oil and stock returns: A comparison between India and China". Presented in the 4th International Energy Finance Conference 2019 (April, 20-21), held at the Xi'an University of Technology (XUT) - Xi'an, China.
• Aswathi R Nair and Anand.B, "Should The Reserve Bank Target Asset Prices in India: Evidences Based on Asset Prices Augmented Taylor Rule". Presented in the 55tH Annual conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), (January8-10) held at National Institute of Securities Market (NISM). Mumbai.
• Aswathi R Nair and Anand.B. "Monetary policy and financial stability: should central banks lean against the wind"? Presented at the 3rd Annual conference of Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics-NMIMS (March, 9th) , held at NMIMS, Mumbai.
• Anand. B, M. Ramachandran. "The Macroeconomic Impacts of the Retail Petroleum Price Fluctuations: Evidence from India" presented at 52nd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), (January 4-6, 2016) held at IIM-Kozhikode.
• Sunil Paul, Anand.B. "Asymmetric Exchange Rate Interventions: Evidence from India" presented at Annual Economic Conference on Financial Sector at Crossroads: Opportunities and Challenges organized by Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics-NMIMS-Mumbai& The Indian Econometrics Society (TIES) (February 12-2018) held at NMIMS-Mumbai.
• Anand. B, Sunil Paul, M. Ramachandran. "Spillover Transmission between Oil and Stock Market Returns: A Frequency Domain Approach" presented at 13th Capital Markets Conference (Dec-18-19 2014) jointly held by Indian Institute of Capital Markets and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics at Mumbai.
• Anand. B, Sunil Paul, M. Ramachandran. "A continuous Wavelet Approach on Volatility Spillover between Oil and Stock Market Returns" presented at 51st Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), (December 12-14, 2014) held at Punjabi University Patiala.
• Anand. B and M.Ramachandran. "Volatility spillover transmission between crude oil prices and select macroeconomic variables in India: A continuous wavelet approach" presented at The Golden Jubilee Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) (December 22-24 -2013), held at IGIDR Mumbai.
• Anand. B and M.Ramachandran "Volatility spillover between crude oil and Indian equity sector: A wavelet analysis" presented at XII Capital Market Conference (December 19-20-2013), held at Indian Institute of Capital Markets, Mumbai.
• Anand. B. "Volatility spillover between oil prices and select macroeconomic variables in India", presented at National Seminar on Econometric Applications in Management (November 20-21-2013), held at central University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
• Anand. B and M.Ramachandran "The spillover effects of crude oil prices on select Macroeconomic variables: Evidence from India" presented at 49th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) (January 9-11-2013), held at Patna University.
• Anand. B and M.Ramachandran. "Volatility transmission between oil prices and stock returns: A bivariate GARCH approach" presented at 48th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) (March1-3 2012), held at Pondicherry University, Puducherry.
• Anand. B and M.Ramachandran. "Volatility transmission between international oil prices and stock returns: Evidence from India" presented at 47th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) (January 6-8 2011), held at Devi Ahilya University, Indore.

Workshops Attended

• Attended Faculty Induction programme from 17th July 2021 to 24th August 2021 conducted by UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and obtained Grade 'A'.
• Faculty development programme (online live instructor-led) on ‘Machine Learning and Data analysis Using Python’ conducted by Electronics and ICT department, IIT Roorkee, from April 27-05 March 2020.
• Workshop on "R-software" (August 1-3 2013) conducted by The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) at Pondicherry University.
• Workshop on Time series modeling and applications (March 25-27 2011) conducted by Madras School of Economics at Madras School of Economics.
• National workshop on Econometrics (March 1-6 2011) conducted by The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) at St. Teresa's College, Kochi.
• National workshop on ‘Contemporary Themes in India's Economic Development and Economic Survey' (June 11-17) conducted by Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Finance at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

Invited Lectures

• Delivered an invited online lecture on ‘Covid 19 Crisis: Understanding the State of the Indian Economy’ conducted by Department of Commerce and IQAC, Aquinas College, Cochin, Kerala on 25-05-2021.
• Delivered an invited online lecture on ‘Indian Economy: From Captivity to Covid-19' conducted by School of Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa on 20-09-2021
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Crude Oil in the Time of Pandemic’ (webinar) conducted by Christ (Deemed to be University) Nodal office, Trivandrum on May 18, 2020.
• Delivered an invited lecture held at IIT-Bombay, Powai on 'Facts and Dynamics of India's Current Economic Slowdown' conducted by Churcha Vedi, IIT Bombay on 31/10/2019.
• Delivered the keynote address in the three day national workshop on 'Quantitative Techniques and Explorations in Social Science Research' conducted by The Department of Economics, Government Victoria College, Palakkad, Kerala in collaboration with The Directorate of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala. Held at Palakkad, Kerala from 16/10/2019 to 18/10/2019.
• Delivered a lecture on the topic 'India's Economic Slowdown: Three Macroeconomic Challenges Ahead' at SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mumbai on July 28, 2019.
• Invited lecture on ‘an analysis of inflation in India from 1950-2019'. Delivered at Malayalam University, Tirur, Kerala. On 25/6/2019.
• Handled technical session on the topic ‘Analysis of Time Series Data with E-Views' in the UGC sponsored National Workshop on Research Methodology for Commerce, Management & Economics' held at St. Thomas College, Pala, Kerala (16-18 September- 2015) organized in collaboration with Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
• Invited lecture on ‘Crude Oil: Evolution, Impact and Future' held at Farook College (January 2d 2016) Kozhikode, Kerala.
• Resource person for UGC sponsored National Seminar, 'Dynamics of Inflation; The Indian Paradigm' (1st -2nd March) held at CMS College Kottayam, Kerala.
• Invited lecture on ‘Kerala Budget-2016' (August 5th 2016) held at Providence College Kozhikode. Kerala.

Reviewer

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier)

The Indian Economic Journal, Sage Publications Inc.