Hiranya K Nath
Associate Professor of Economics

 

Contact Information

Mailing Address:

Department of Economics and Intl. Business
College of Business Administration
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118

Phone: 936-294-4760
Fax : 936-294-3488
E-mail: eco_hkn@shsu.edu

Office Location:

241E, Smith-Hutson Business Building (map)

My Cyber Locations:

My Official Page at SHSU ECO

IDEAS

RePEc

Scholar Universe

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Curriculum Vitae

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Research

Primary Research Interests: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomic Time Series Analysis

Specific Research Interests: Disaggregate Price Behavior

Other Research Interests: Information Economics, Art Economics

Research Papers

Published and Forthcoming

Refereed Journals

• "Information Services in the US Economy: Value, Jobs and Management Implications" (with Uday Apte and Uday Karmarkar), California Management Review, forthcoming.
• "Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies." Comparative Economic Studies, forthcoming (Abstract) (Citations)
• "Inflation and Relative Price Variability in Mexico: The Role of Remittances" (with J. Ulyses Balderas) , Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 15, No. 3, 181-185, 2008.
• "Trade, Growth and Wage Inequality in Bangladesh" (with Khawaja A Mamun), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 16. No.4, 505-528, 2007.
• "Diminishing Marginal Impatience: Its Promises for Asset Pricing" (with Jayanta Sarkar), Applied Financial Economics Letters, Vol.2, No.1, 2006 (Abstract)
• "Small Menu Costs and Large Business Cycles: An Extension of the Mankiw Model" (with Robert Stretcher), Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, Vol.6,No.2,2005 (Abstract)
• "Export-led Growth in Bangladesh: A Time Series Analysis" (with Khawaja A Mamun), Applied Economics Letters, Vol.12, No. 6, 2005 (Abstract) (Citations)
• "Assessing Cross-Industry Effects of B2B e-Commerce" (with Uday M. Apte) Journal of Strategic E-Commerce, Vol.2, No.2, 2004 (Abstract)
• "Relative Importance of Sectoral and Aggregate Sources of Price Changes," Applied Economics ,Vol.36, No.16, 2004 (Abstract) (Citations)
• "Inflation and Relative Price Variability: Short-Run vs. Long-Run," Economics Letters , Vol.82, No.3, 2004 (Abstract) (Citations)
• "Relative Price Changes as Supply Shocks: Evidence from U.S. Cities" Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Vol.41, Nos.3 and 4, 2004 (Abstract)

Book Chapters and Other Publications

• "The Size, Structure and Growth of the U.S. Information Economy" (with Uday M. Apte) in U.M. Apte and U.S. Karmakar (eds): Managing in the Information Economy: Current Research Issues, Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, Norwell , MA , (2007) (Abstract) (Also, a BIT Working Paper at UCLA Anderson School of Management) (Citations)
• "The Rise of an Enclave Economy" in Alokesh Barua (ed): India's Northeast: Development Issues in a Historical Perspective, Manohar - Centre De Sciences Humaines, 2005 (Abstract) (pdf)
• "Service Industries in Today's Information Economy" (with Uday M. Apte) in Proceedings of Service Operations Management Conference August 2000 (Abstract)
• "Simulation of FOMC Meeting: Learning about Monetary Policy by Doing", February 2005 (Abstract)(SSRN Working Paper )

Under Review

• "Remittances and Relative Prices" (with Carlos Vargas-Silva)
• “Unbiased Estimation of the Half-Life to Price Index Convergence among US Cities.” (with Jayanta Sarkar)
• "International Productivity Differences and Roles of Domestic Investment, FDI and Trade" (with Gouranga G. Das and Halis M Yildiz)

Unpublished Manuscripts

• "Relative Efficiency of Small Scale Industries in India: An Inter-State Comparison", September 1997 (Abstract) (pdf) (Citations)
• "Sectoral Price Changes and Output growth: Supply and Demand in General Equilibrium" (with Nathan S. Balke), February 2003 (Abstract)(pdf) (Citations)
• "Foreign direct investment and inequality in productivity across countries" (with Gouranga G. Das and Halis M. Yildiz), January 2005 (Abstract)(pdf)

Works in Progress

• "Price Index Convergence Among US Cities: Does the Numeraire City Matter?" (with Viera Chmelarova)
• "Inflation and Relative Price Variability across U.S. Cities: Role of Traded and Non-traded Goods" (with Jayanta Sarkar) (current version)
• "On Business-cycle Asymmetries of the Relationship between Inflation and Relative Price Variability" (Abstract)(Current version)
• "The Effect of a Discount Rate on Price Change Behavior: An Empirical Analysis" (with Robert Stretcher)(Abstract)(Current version)
• "Nominal Price Rigidities in a Multisector Model" (with Nathan S. Balke)(Abstract)(Current version) (Citations)
• "Public Policy, Fractionalization of Society and Social Conflicts: The Case of Assam" (background)
• "Dowry, Parental Decision and Female Higher Education in India" (with Jayanta Sarkar)
• "Country-Risk Analysis: A Survey" (Abstract)(Current version)

List of Selected Citations

My Newest Projects

• Why are we lazy? An investingation into the economic incentives in Assam from a historical perspective
• Terrorism and Militancy in India's Northeast: Interregional Inequality, Allocation of Resources...so on and so forth

Disaggregated Price Behavior Home-Page

Other Presentations

• Class Presentation: Intercultural Business Communication, Spring 2005
  • Faces of Indian Women
• SHSU International Week Presentation, Spring 2007
  • IFDS Budapest and Prague

Upcoming Seminars and Conferences

• 78th Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, Washington, D.C., November 20-23, 2008

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Conference on Regional Trade Agreements, Migration, and Remittances, Sam Houston State University, April 12-13, 2008

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My Spring Classes

ECO234-07 Principles of Macroeconomics (TUN 6:00 - 8:50 p.m.)

ECO234-08 Principles of Macroeconomics (TUTH 9:30 - 10:50 a.m.)

ECO463-01 Monetary Economics (TUTH 12:30 - 1:50 p.m.)

 

Simulation of the FOMC Meeting (Video clips) (Statement)(Effectiveness Survey Results)

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For (Young) Economists

Ranking of the Economics Journals, Economics Departments and Economists

• European Economic Association Supported Study (at Leicester University Website) (at University of Cyprus Website) (at University of Guelph Website)
• Royal Econometric Society's Ranking of Econmetric Journals and Authors
• Tinbergen Institute Ranking
• Ranking of Researchers in Economics

Recipes for Publication

• How to publish in top journals?
  • Prof. Daniel S Hamermesh' Recipe
• Prof. Kwan Choi's Recipe
• If your paper has been rejected, do not get upset. Here is why!

Job Openings

• Job Openings for Economists, American Economic Association
• Inomics
• Chronicle of Higher Education

Media Guide for Economists

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Other Stuff

SHSU Economics Working Papers

Do you want to know what was your money worth in 1920? Try THIS!

Meet this year's Nobel Laureates

A Prime Minister's CV

My Bookmarks

..not so serious stuff...

The Poetry Box

Countries that I have visited

From my kitchen

Portrait of 'an ECONOMIST

'the viewfinder (visit at your own risk!)

Do you check your e-mail every 5 minutes?

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