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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 77341-2118Phone: 936-294-4760
Fax : 936-294-3488
E-mail: eco_hkn@shsu.eduOffice Location:
241E, Smith-Hutson Business Building (map)
My Cyber Locations:
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
- "Relative Price Convergence Among US Cities: Does the Numeraire City Matter?" (with Viera Chmelarova) Journal of Macroeconomics, forthcoming
- “Unbiased Estimation of the Half-Life to Price Index Convergence among US Cities.” (with Jayanta Sarkar) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 41, No. 5, 1041 - 1046, 2009.
- "Migration and Remittances." Journal of Business Strategies, Vol. 26, No.1, 1-8, 2009.
- "Country Risk Analysis: A Survey of the Quantitative Methods" Economia Internazionale/International Economics, Vol. LXII, No. 1, 69-94, 2009.
- "International Productivity Differences and Roles of Domestic Investment, FDI and Trade." (with Gouranga G. Das and Halis M Yildiz) , International Economic Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 121-142, 2009.
- "Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies." Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1, 20-50, 2009. (Abstract) (Citations)
- "Information Services in the US Economy: Value, Jobs, and Management Implications" (with Uday Apte and Uday Karmarkar), California Management Review, Vol. 50, No.3, 12-30, 2008. [Listed as one of the noteworthy articles from the business journals by The Economist, June 2008] (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. (Citations)
- "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.
- "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
- "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
- "Do regions matter for the behavior of city relative prices in the U. S.?" (with Viera Chmelarova)
- "Remittances and Relative Prices" (with Carlos Vargas-Silva)
Unpublished Manuscripts
- "Sectoral Price Changes and Output growth: Supply and Demand in General Equilibrium" (with Nathan S. Balke), February 2003 (Abstract)(pdf) (Citations)
- "Nominal Price Rigidities in a Multisector Model" (with Nathan S. Balke), 2003 (Abstract)(pdf) (Citations)
- "The Effect of a Discount Rate on Price Change Behavior: An Empirical Analysis" (with Robert Stretcher), 2004 (Abstract)(pdf)
- "Foreign direct investment and inequality in productivity across countries" (with Gouranga G. Das and Halis M. Yildiz), January 2005 (Abstract)(pdf)
Works in Progress
- "Borrowing, Migration, and Remittances in Bangladesh: Implications for Microcredit Services" (with Khawaja A. Mamun and Carlos Vargas-Silva)
- "Price Differences across Colombian Cities: Gravity or the Guerillas?" (with Isabel Ruiz)
- "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)
- "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)
Other Writings
- On Economic Growth and Development of Assam Luitor Pora Mississippi (2008)
- The Information Society SIBCOLTEJO (2008)
- A few thoughts on higher education in Assam Luitor Pora Thames (2009)
- On Education and School Teachers in Assam Luitor Pora Mississippi, forthcoming.
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
- SHSU International Week Presentation, Spring 2007
Upcoming Seminars and Conferences
- UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA: Short-term Reserch Visit, August 2009
- Naval Posgraduate School, Monterey, CA: Short-term Research Visit, August 2009
- Hanyang University, Ansan Campus, South Korea: Seminar Presentation, Sepetember 2009
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey: Seminar Presentation, October 2009
- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Seminar Presentation and Short-term Research Visit, November 2009
Conference on Regional Trade Agreements, Migration, and Remittances, Sam Houston State University, April 12-13, 2008
My Classes
I will be on leave during the Fall Semester 2009
Simulation of the FOMC Meeting (Video clips) (Statement)(Effectiveness Survey Results)
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?
- If your paper has been rejected, do not get upset. Here is why!
Job Openings
Other Stuff
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Meet this year's Nobel Laureate
..not so serious stuff...
The Poetry Box
States of the US that I have visited
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