Mandira Sarma
Mandira Sarma
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of the World Economy
School of International Studies
Room No
335, SIS II building (3rd Floor)
Off. Phone
011-26738739
Email
sarmam[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in , msarma.ms[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/mandira
Qualifications

Ph.D . (Economics), M.Sc. (Statistics)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Financial Economics, India's Financial Sector, Financial Inclusion, Applied Econometrics 

Experience

Post-doctoral Fellow at EURANDOM (European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and their Applications), Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (2003-2005); Visiting Scientist at Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi (Sept - Dec 2005); Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi (Sept 2006 - Nov 2008); Senior Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi (Nov 2008 - Mar 2009); Associate professor at Centre for International Trade and Development, (CITD) School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (Apr 2009 - Mar 2015); Professor at CITD, SIS, JNU (Apr 2015 - present) . 

Awards & Honours

Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, Jan-Jul 2019, at Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America

Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Applied Sciences (HTW), Berlin, Germany, 1 June - 30 June, 2011.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. "Measuring Financial Inclusion Using Multidimensional Data", World Economics, 17(1): 15-40 (2016)
  2. "What hinders and what enhances small enterprises’ access to formal credit in India?”, (with Yuko Nikaido and Jesim Pais), Review of Development Finance, 5: 43-52 (2015).
  3. “Fat Tails, VaR and Subadditivity” (with Jon Danielsson, Bjorn Jorgensen, Gennady Samorodnitsky and Casper G. de Vries), Journal of Econometrics, 172: 283-291 (2013)
  4. "Financial Inclusion and Development" (with Jesim Pais), Journal of International Development, 23: 613 - 628 (2011)
  5. "Comparing downside risk measures for heavy tailed distributions" (with Jon Danielsson, Bjorn Jorgensen and Casper G. de Vries), Economics Letters, 92, 202-208 (June, 2006).
     
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. “Does Credit Market Intervention Enhance Economic Outcome? Evidence from India's 'Priority Sector Lending' Policy” (with Vinay K. Yadav), Review of Development Finance, 11(1): 46-65 (2021)
  2. "Financial Structure and Stability: An Empirical Exploration” (with Shikha Singh), Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, special issue: 9-32 (2020)
  3. "Demand-side factors for Financial Inclusion: A Cross-country Empirical Analysis" (with Rigzin Yangdol), International Studies, 56 (2–3): 163-185 (2019)
  4. “Exchange Market Pressure in India”, (with Anuradha Guru), Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 10(1):68-87 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/17520843.2016.1176583
  5. “Asset Inequality in India: Going from Bad to Worse”(with Partha Saha and Nandini Jayakumar), Social Scientist, 45(3-4):55-67(2017)