Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Come work for us

Come work for the NIPFP-DEA Research Program:

Policy analyst
  • A Masters or a Ph.D.
  • Exposure to economics / finance
  • Exposure to the world of public policy
  • Experience with regulations / law will be a plus point
  • Should have read the Percy Mistry and Raghuram Rajan reports.
  • Good quality written english.
Quantitative analyst
  • A Masters of a Ph.D. in a quantitative field (e.g. economics, statistics, mathematics, engineering).
  • Skills in statistics / econometrics
  • Experience in being part of a similar team doing applied econometrics
  • Computer programming - e.g. R / gauss / matlab / scilab.
Research Programmer
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as C, perl, shell, R.
  • Software engineering environment e.g. make, subversion
  • Role will be partly to build stuff, but partly to learn new things and pass them on to the researchers, and help them in troubleshooting.
  • Comfort with living on the Unix commandline
  • Ability to install and admin Linux
  • Interest in being in a research environment
This could be particularly appropriate for a person who is at present a computer engineer but desires to gain knowledge of economics and finance.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Materials from the 4th Research Meeting

All the slideshows and papers are up on the web.

Monday, March 16, 2009

4th research meeting

The program design for the 4th research meeting is up. This is on 24 and 25 March, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Learning DSGE; learning unit root econometrics

We have put together a series of lectures at NIPFP on these issues.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Article in Mint about Gautam Chand's talk

Mobis Philipose and Manas Chakravarty have an article in Mint about Gautam Chand's talk at the 3rd research meeting.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Article by Manish Sabherwal in Economic Times

Manish Sabherwal jumped off one of the themes of the 3rd Research Meeting in a recent article in Economic Times.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Talk on global financial crisis and its implications for us in India

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