My Curriculum Vitae

Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan Research Economist, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 403 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056 USA Phone: +1 765 494 4318; E-mail: [email protected],[email protected] Date Of Birth : 24th December, 1980

Educational Qualifications • Ph.D. (Degree Awarded in December 2007, Thesis Submitted in June 2006) in Development Studies, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research(IGIDR), Mumbai. • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Textile Technology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore in May 2002.1 Ph.D. Thesis: Some Economic Issues in Indian Textile Industry Committee Members: Dr. Kausik Chaudhuri 2 , Dr. Kirit Parikh 3 and Dr. K.V. Ramaswamy

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Areas of Interest: International Trade-related Issues, Industrial Economics, Textile Sector, Labour Economics, Productivity Analysis, Demand Analysis, CGE modelling, Environmental Economics, Development issues, Applied Econometrics/Time series. Work Experience: • Research Economist at Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University since May 2007: My job roles include: Construction of GTAP database, a multi-country multi-sector database for CGE analysis; Involved in a project that involves constructing database for African countries sponsored by European Commission, World Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA); Teaching in the courses on GTAP and construction of InputOutput Tables; Independent research and related activities. • Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, from June 2006 to May 2007: My job responsibilities were: Working on projects from Governmental, international and industrial agencies in the broad areas of trade, industry and finance, as a lead investigator and/or co-ordinator. I was the principal investigator of the project on ‘Determinants of Competitiveness and Global Integration of Indian Automotive Sector’ for National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) and ACMA (Auto-Components Manufacturers Association). I also co-ordinated the research projects on “Iron ore exports from India” funded by Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) and “Financial Sector Development in India: Operational Strategies” funded by Capacity Building Research Institute, Germany (InWENT). • Teaching and Research Assistant to Dr. Kausik Chaudhuri, August 2005- June 2006: First Year MSc/M.Phil/Ph.D. students at IGIDR for the course on Econometrics-II. Work involved extracting the data from National Sample Survey from ASCII to readable format and Prowess using Stata and Sas. • Teaching and Research Assistant to Dr. Vinod Kumar Sharma, August 2003-July 2005: Work involved data collection, analysis, editing of the reports, co-ordination and presentation of two projects: Maharashtra State Development Report, funded by Planning Commission, Government of India and State of Environment Report-Maharashtra, funded by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. I delivered a series of lectures on ‘Environmental Economics’, as a part of a course on ‘Energy and Environment’ offered for Second Year MSc/M.Phil/Ph.D. students at IGIDR. • Assistant Production Manager at DGM Textiles, Tirupur, May 2002-July 2002: Work involved planning, co-ordination and control of production of knitted garments (innerwear, shoes, T-shirts, etc.) for export to countries such as USA, Canada, Germany and UAE. After being trained for a week, I was put in charge of production in a new unit started by the company, reporting to managing partners.

Fellowships and Academic Honours • Fellowship (2002-2007) to pursue PhD from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research,Mumbai 1 First

Class with Distinction and top 5 in the respective batches from school to PhD PhD Supervisor, who is an Associate Professor, Department of Economics, IGIDR and Senior Lecturer at Department of Economics, University of Leeds, UK 3 Member, The Planning Commission and Professor Emeritus, IGIDR 4 Associate Professor, IGIDR and Visiting Faculty, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. 2 My

• Fellowship with an invitation to participate in the ‘Meeting with Nobel Laureates in Economics’ at Lindau, Germany, during 1-4, September 2004, in which I had availed the golden opportunity of having discussion with 11 Nobel Laureates in Economics as well as with 200 students from 34 countries about their research. • Fellowship to pursue a course titled ‘South Asia Short Course on Global Trade Analysis’5 held from 28th November 2005 for three months, organized by Purdue University, USA. • Numerous grants for presenting papers in many places in India and at City college, London, UK

Publications in Refereed Journals • Narayanan, G.Badri (forthcoming), Trade liberalisation, Environmental and Labour Regulations: Impact on Employment in a Developing Economy in International Journal of Applied Economics, Accepted in December 2007 • Narayanan, G.Badri (2007),Long-run Relationship between Output, Capital, Labour and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Textile Sector in Applied Economics, forthcoming, accepted in October 2007 • Narayanan, G.Badri (2007), Effect of Mergers on Firm Profits with Trade Liberalisation: The Role of Technology in Applied Economics Letters 14(8): 607-610. • Narayanan, G.Badri (2006), Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Firm Profits and Social Welfare: The Role of Technology, Applied Economics Letters 13(1):63-66. • Narayanan, G.Badri (2005), Exchange Rate, Productivity and Exports: The Case of Indian Textile Sector in The Journal of Indian School of Political Economy 17(4):657-678.

Book Chapters Narayanan, G.Badri (forthcoming) Indian Textile and Apparel Sector: an Analysis of Aspects Related to Domestic Supply and Demand in Unveiling protectionism: regional responses to remaining barriers in the texties and clothing trade, edited by Mia Mikic, published by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok, forthcoming, accepted in October 2007. Narayanan, G.Badri (2008) Indian Textile and Apparel Sector: Performance, Employment and Demand in India Development Report: 2008 edited by R.Radhakrishna, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Narayanan, G.Badri (2007) Pollution Control by the Natural Dyes, in “Economic Studies of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge”, edited by Prof.Nirmal Sengupta; published by Academic Foundation in association with Indian Economic Association Trust for Research Development.

Other Publications Narayanan, G.Badri (2005) A note on Labour Flexibility debate in India in Economic and Political Weekly, September 26October 1. Narayanan, G.Badri (2005) Effects of Trade Liberalisation, Environmental and Labour Regulations on Employment in India’s Organised Textile Sector, IGIDR Working Paper No: WP-2005-005. Narayanan, G.Badri (2005) Questions on Textile Industry Competitiveness in Economic and Political Weekly, February 26-March 4. Narayanan, G.Badri (2004) An Analysis of Long-run Environmental Impacts and Multi-criteria-based Prioritisation of the Natural Dyes in the Indian Textile Industry in Social Science Research Network Electronic Library, January 2004 Narayanan, G.Badri (2003) Interactions Between Technology, Profits, Welfare and Profit Effects of Mergers with Trade Restrictions in Social Science Research Network Electronic Library, December 2003 Narayanan, G.Badri and Gopal V. (2001) Garment Exports -A Mission With Vision in the Journal of Textile Association, March. 5I

successfully completed this rigorous course on global trade analysis using Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, with GTAP database

Papers under Peer-reviewing Process • Trade Regimes and Efficiency of Unorganised Sector in a Developing Economy in Small Business Economics: An International Journal • Demand for Textiles in a Developing Economy: Patterns and Determinants in Empirical Economics

Presentations at Conferences/Seminars • Contributed a paper on Will Phasing out of MFA Quotas Benefit India’s Garment Exports? at 43rd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society held in IIT-Mumbai on 5th January 2007 • India’s Handloom Exports: Recent Trends and Perspectives for Future in a seminar on ‘Export Competitiveness of Textiles- Focus Handloom’ organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Textiles Committee, and sponsored by UNCTAD, held at Panipat on August 31st , 2006. • Exports, Exchange Rate and Productivity: A Cointegration Analysis of Indian Textile Sector in the 41st Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (January 2005). • Contributed a paper on Determinants of Employment in the Indian Textile Industry for presentation in Second Annual Oxmetric Conference at City College, Oxford University, London (August 2004). • Contributed a paper on Effects of Trade Liberalisation, Environmental and Labour Regulations on Employment in Indian Textile Industry for presentation at the First annual conference on Finance and Economics at Institute of Chartered Financial Accountants of India (ICFAI), Bangalore (July 2004). • Contributed a Paper on A Policy-oriented Analysis of adoption of Natural Dyes in Indian Textile Industry for presentation at the National Symposium on Environment held at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong (June 2004) and at a National Symposium on Sustainable Development held at Indian Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur (July 2004). • Inflation-Openness Relationship in Developing Countries: A Dynamic Panel Approach in Sixth Annual Conference on Money and Finance at IGIDR,Mumbai (March 2004). • Determinants of Employment in Indian Textile Industry in the 40th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society at Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore (February 2004). • Analysis of Long-run Environmental Impacts and Prioritisation of the Natural Dyes in the Textile Industry in National Conference on Advances in Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai (December 2003).

Other Presentations • Some Economic Issues in Indian Textile Sector at Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University, USA on February 12, 2007. • Competitiveness of Indian Auto Industry: Some Findings at National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, New Delhi on January 20, 2007. • Competitiveness of Indian Auto Industry at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi on January 4, 2007. • Invited to deliver a lecture on “Global Trade Scenario of Textile Sector” by South Indian Textile Research Association, Coimbatore, in August 2006. • Determinants of Employment in India’s Organised Textile Sector at Indian School of Business on May 31, 2006. • Some Economic Issues in Indian Textile Sector at National Council of Applied Economic Research on June 15, 2006. • Presented a part of a project entitled Global Welfare Implications of Non-ratification of Kyoto Protocol by USA: A Multi-region Multi-sector CGE Analysis in ‘A short Course on Global Trade Analysis’ Organised by Purdue University at IGIDR, Mumbai from 18-24 February, 2006. • Delivered a lecture on “Analysis of NSS data using suitable statistical tool” in a two day workshop on “Data, Databases and Data Inter-conversion”, organised by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) - Western Regional Center, in Mumbai University, on Feb 3-4, 2006.

• Delivered a lecture on “Analysis Using NSS Data”, to the students of I year MSc/MPhil/PhD students in IGIDR (January 2006) • Presented the “Second Draft of the State of Environment Report: Maharashtra” in a workshop on ‘State of Environment Report: Maharashtra’ at Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), representing IGIDR in July 2005.

Other Activities Pertaining to Teaching/Research • Provided comments on some research papers submitted for Tenth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, various research proposals/reports of the ministries of Government of India and project reports submitted to industry associations, Government and corporates in India. • Participated in the First and Second Meetings of Steering Committee on Industry for the Eleventh Five Year Plan, held at Planning Commission, Government of India in August to December, 2006. • Participated in a workshop on “Econometrics of Banking and Financial Markets”, held in IGIDR in February 2005. • Organised various conferences such as Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Annual Conferences on Money and Finance in Indian Economy, Wages and Income in Indian Economy and Conference on Energy and Environment in honour of Prof. Jyoti Parikh, which were held at IGIDR, from 2002 to 2006. Languages Known : Tamil (Native), English (Near Native), Hindi (Near Native), Malayalam (Introductory) and Spanish (Introductory). Hobbies : Reading (Fiction and Non-fiction), Music and Learning Languages

Skill Set Platforms: DOS,Windows,Unix,Linux Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic, SQLPLUS, Bash Shell Programming, Sed, Awk, Perl: All at Introductory level Statistical Software: Stata, SAS, TSP (Time Series Package), LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning Software), Expert-choice, OX-CONSOLE, R, RATS, OPUS Make and FRONTIER Other Software/Packages: LATEX, Microsoft Office Databases: National Sample Survey, Annual Survey of Industries, National Accounts Statistics, CMIE (Center for Monitoring Indian Economy) Prowess, GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project), United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), World Development Indicators (WDI), International Financial Statistics (IFS)