Current Issues in Economics and Finance

Part-I: Fiscal and Price Stability, Monetary Policy and Economic Growth.- Chapter 1. The Recent Inflation Crisis and Long run Economic Growth in India: An Empirical Survey of Threshold Level of Inflation.- Chapter 2. Impact of short run and long run debt on economic growth: Empirical evidence of India.- Chapter 3. Fiscal Deficit Composition and Economic Growth in India: A Time Series Econometric Analysis.- Chapter 4. Relationship between monetary policy and industrial production in India.- Part-II: Financial Integration, Capital Market Volatility and Macroeconomic Stability.- Chapter 5. Financial integration and macroeconomic instability in India.- Chapter 6. Co-movement among Asian Forex markets: Evidence from Wavelet Methods.- Chapter 7. Volume, Spread & Volatility: Intraday Evidence from India.- Part-III: International Trade and Economic Growth.- Chapter 8. Nexus between International Trade and Economic Growth.- Chapter 9. Causality between Exports and GDP: An Empirical Evidence from BIMSTEC Region.- Part-IV: Productivity and Firm Performance.- Chapter 10. Intellectual Capital and Financial Performance: Evidences from Indian Business Process Outsourcing Industry.- Chapter 11. CSR as investment: An Analysis with Ownership Structure and Firm Performance.- Chapter 12. Productivity performance of Indian banks with FDI contents.- Chapter 13. Is the acquirer more efficient than target: An empirical study from selected bank consolidation in India?.- Chapter 14. Simultaneous equations modeling of bank deposits, credits and economic growth in Tanzania.- Part-V: Agriculture and Food Security.- Chapter 15. Foreign Exchange Rate and Agricultural Performances: A Time Series Exercise for India.- Chapter 16. Assessing Nutritional Intake from a Field Study in Odisha.- Chapter 17. Dynamics of Food Grain Production in Telangana.

Dr. Bandi Kamaiah is currently Professor and Dean of School of Economics at University of Hyderabad, India, and President of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES). He has held multiple administrative positions as SAP and ASHIS Coordinator, Head of the Department of Economics at University of Hyderabad. He also served as the Head of RBI Endowment Unit, ISEC, Bangalore. With 140 research papers in international journals of repute, his areas of research interest are monetary and financial economics, applied time series analysis, macroeconomics and international finance.

Dr. C.S. Shylajan is Professor and Dean Academics at IBS Hyderabad, India. Prior to this, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at ICTP, Italy as part of a Research Program sponsored by UNESCO and Beijer Institute, Sweden. His areas of research interest are international economics, macroeconomics, environmental economics, etc. He was the Consulting Editor of IUP Journal of Public Finance during 2006-2012. He is currently Associate Editor of International Journal of Ecology and Development.