Advances in Finance & Applied Economics

Part I.- A.    Development Economics.- 1.      Federalism in India: An empirical analysis.- 2.      1.      Econometric Analysis of Growth Inclusiveness in India Evidence from Cross Section Data.- 3.      Ethanol as Biofuel and Cereal Prices.- 4.      Econometric Analysis of Growth Inclusiveness in India Evidence from Cross Section Data.- B.     Environmental Economics.- 1.  Sustainability of Small scale biogas installations in India- economic, social and ecological dimensions.- 2.      Urban Sprawl and Transport Sustainability on Highway Corridors Using Stake Holder Analysis.- 3.      The inter-relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions in India.- 4.      Policy Interventions for Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries.- 5.      Ability-Biased Technical Change, Economic Growth and the Environment: An Empirical Analysis.- Part II.- A.    Monetary Economics.- 1.      MUDRA: The Transformation of Microfinance in India: Review, Experiences And Future prospect.-  2.      Impact of fiscal policy initiatives on inflation in India.- 3.      Monetary Policy and Private Investment in India- the MIDAS experience.- B.     Public Economics.- 1.      Democracy, Trade Openness and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study.- 2.     Incidence of Specific or Employment Tax in Non Walrasian Fixed -

N.R. Bhanumurthy is currently a Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, India. Prior to joining the NIPFP, he worked as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi. He has worked as a macroeconomist at UNESCAP, Bangkok and the UNDP Regional Centre for the Asia-Pacific region, Colombo. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France, and at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has also been a consultant to the ILO, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Currently, he is Secretary of the Indian Econometric Society and a Managing Trustee of the Indian Economic Association Trust for Research and Development.

K. Shanmugan is currently working as an Associate Professor at the M. S. University of Baroda, India. He is also the Treasurer of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES), New Delhi. He has chaired numerous conferences and seminars organized by some of the most prestigious institutions in India and has 27 years teaching experience. Shriram Nerlekar is a faculty of Finance at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), India. He is currently serving as Director, Institute of Management Education Research and Training (IMERT), Pune. He has chaired numerous academic and administrative committees formed by SPPU. He is the recipient of the 'Best Professor in Financial Management Award' (awarded in 2010 by Mumbai-based Business School Affaire's Dewang Mehta Business School Awards) and of the 'Young Achiever Award' (awarded in 2012 by Mumbai-based World Education Congress).