Personal Information

 Name: Dr. Bhavesh Garg
 Designation: Assistant Professor (Economics)
 Contact Number: 01881-242276
 Email:bhavesh@iitrpr.ac.in
 Address: C-M06, Super Academic Block IIT Ropar, Punjab - 140001
 Profile: https://sites.google.com/view/bhaveshgarg89

Areas Of Research

  • Open economy macroeconomics
  • Time-series econometrics
  • Balance of payments analysis
  • Capital flows
  • Energy markets

Short Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the IIT Ropar. Prior to this, I was a Visiting Scientist at the ISI, North-East Center. I have obtained a Ph.D. in Economics (2013-2018) from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad under the supervision of Dr. Prabheesh K.P. My research interests draw from open economy macroeconomics and time-series econometrics.

Education

  • (2018) PhD, Economics, IIT Hyderabad
  • (2012) M.A. Economics, Universit of Hyderabad
  • (2009) B.A. (Hons.) Economics, Ramjas College, University of Delhi

Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar, Feb 2019 - Present
  • Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Tezpur, Dec 2018 - Jan 2019.
  • Prof. A L Nagar Visiting Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, Oct 2016 - Nov 2016.
  • Visiting Scholar, IGIDR, Mumbai, Apr 2016 - Aug 2016.


Research

Journal


  • Bhavesh Garg, Sayar Ahmad Shah and Janaka Erdisinghe (2025) Revisiting monetary policy transmission in a new inflation targeting country. Journal of Asian Economics, 100, 102026. [Paper]
  • Sayar Ahmad Shah, Bhavesh Garg & Pravakar Sahoo (2025) Identifying efficient policy mix under emission mitigation and inflation targeting: a case of India. Energy Economics, 150, 108837. [Paper]
  • Karan Rai and Bhavesh Garg (2025). Demographic Transition and Financial Assets. Emerging Markets Review, 69, 101340. [Paper]
  • Meenu Rani, Bhavesh Garg, and Arun Kumar (2025) Change point analysis in data with heavy tails: a Normal Inverse Gaussian approach. Economics Letters, 254, 112477. [Paper]
  • Karan Rai and Bhavesh Garg (2025). Macroeconomic impact of demographic transition and effectiveness of monetary policy: evidence from East Asian economies. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 61:12, 3742-3766. [Paper]
  • B. Garg (2025). Policy Effectiveness in Mitigating Pandemic-Induced Macroeconomic Impacts: Evidence from Large Net Oil Importers of Asia. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 61:2, 493-515. [Paper]
  • S. M. Juhro, P.K. Narayan, B. Garg, & D.F. Anugrah (2024). Transition to a green economy, oil prices and the current account. Energy Economics, 139, 107916. [Paper]
  • P.K. Narayan, B. Garg, I. Gunadi, & A. Rishanty (2024). How are green stocks and monetary policy related?. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal87, 102516. [Paper]
  • Karan Rai and Bhavesh Garg (2024) Demographic transition and inflation, Economic Systems 48:4, 101214 [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg and Harsha Paranavithana (2024) Do different credit flows affect the current account differently? Evidence from emerging economies, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 60:10. 2190-2203. [Paper].
  • Bhavesh Garg and Pravakar Sahoo (2023) Are gross financial inflows expansionary or contractionary? Evidence from emerging economies, Finance Research Letters, 58, 104329. [Paper].
  • Sayar Ahmad Shah and Bhavesh Garg (2023) Identifying Efficient Policy Mix Under Different Targeting Regimes: A Tale of Two Crises. Economic Analysis and Policy, 78, 975-995. [Paper]
  • Kushal Banik Chowdhury and Bhavesh Garg (2023) Fresh evidence on the oil-stock interactions under heterogeneous market conditions. Finance Research Letters, 54, 103726. [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg, Karan Rai, Rishabh Pachoriya and Manik Thapa (2023) Crisis and contagion in cryptocurrency market. Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, 26, 9-32. [Paper]
  • Sayar Ahmad Shah and Bhavesh Garg (2023) Testing policy effectiveness during COVID-19: an NK-DSGE analysis. Journal of Asian Economics, 84, 101577. [Paper]
  • Kushal Banik Chowdhury and Bhavesh Garg (2022) Has COVID-19 intensified the oil price – exchange rate nexus? Economic Analysis and Policy, 76, 280-298. [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg and K.P. Prabheesh (2022). Is Indonesia's Current Account Balance Optimal? Evidence from an Intertemporal Approach. Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking25, 1-18. [Paper]
  • Karan Rai and Bhavesh Garg (2022) Dynamic correlations and volatility spillovers between stock price and exchange rate in BRIICS economie: evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak period, Applied Economics Letters, 29:8, 738-745 [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg and K. P. Prabheesh (2021) The nexus between the exchange rates and interest rates: Evidence from BRIICS economies during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Studies in Economics and Finance, 38(2), 469-486. [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg & K. P. Prabheesh (2021) Testing the intertemporal sustainability of current account in the presence of endogenous structural breaks: Evidence from the top deficit countries. Economic Modelling, 97, 365-379. [Paper]
  • K. P. Prabheesh and Bhavesh Garg (2021) Testing deviations from PPP and UIP: evidence from BRICS economies, Studies in Economics and Finance, 38(2), 384-399. [Paper]
  • K. P. Prabheesh, Bhavesh Garg & Rakesh Padhan (2020) Time-varying dependence between stock market and oil prices during COVID-19: The case of net oil-exporting countries. Economics Bulletin, 40(3), 2408-2418. [Paper]
  •  K. P. Prabheesh, Rakesh Padhan & Bhavesh Garg (2020) COVID-19 and the oil price–stock market nexus: Evidence from net oil-importing countries. Energy Research Letters, 1(2), 13745 [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg and K. P. Prabheesh (2018) External shocks, consumption-smoothing and capital mobility in India: evidence from an intertemporal optimization approach. Applied Economics, 50:45, 4814-4829. [Paper] [Supplementary Material]
  • K. P. Prabheesh and Bhavesh Garg (2018) Capital-enhanced Equilibrium Exchange Rate: evidence from India, Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25:19, 1393-1397 (with Prabheesh K.P.) [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg and K. P. Prabheesh (2017) Drivers of Current Account deficits in India, with implications for ameliorating them, Journal of Asian Economics, 2017, 51, 23-32. [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg and K. P. Prabheesh (2015) Causal Relationships between the current account and the capital account: an empirical investigation from India, Applied Economics Letters, 2015, 22:6, 446-450 [Paper]


Working Papers / Policy Papers


  • A. Bishnoi, R. Dash, B. Garg & P. Sahoo (2024)Boosting the Labor Intensive Manufacturing in India, Economic and Political Weekly, 59(34), 96-106. [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg (2023) Effectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Mitigating Pandemic-Induced Macroeconomic Impacts: Evidence from Large Net Oil Importers of Asia, ERIA Discussion Paper Series, D.P. No. 492. [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg & Pravakar Sahoo (2021) Do different types of capital inflows have differential impact on output? Evidence from Time Series and Panel analysis, IEG Working Paper, Working Paper No. 443, September 2021. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi [Paper]
  • Bhavesh Garg & Pravakar Sahoo (2020) Corona Crash: Need Global Efforts to tackle Global Crisis, IEG Policy Brief , Policy Brief No. 12/2020. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi [Paper]
  • Pravakar Sahoo & Bhavesh Garg (2018) India's Credit Ratings: Boost to Investors' Sentiment, Yojana, Journal of Planning Commission, Government of India, January, 65-72. [Link]
  • Pravakar Sahoo & Bhavesh Garg. India-Korea Economic Relations during Post-CEPA Period, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies [accepted]

Op-ed articles

  • Why India needs stable capital flows - The Indian Express. February 28, 2023
  • Demographic transition: India can reap rich dividends with right policy focus (with K. Rai) - The Hindu Business Line. December 21, 2022
  • Urgently needed: AG-20 joint efforts (with P. Sahoo) - Deccan Herald. March 29, 2020
  • A silver lining for Indian economy (with P. Sahoo) - Financial Express. March 12, 2020
  • What the US monetary tightening means for India (with P. Sahoo) - Financial Express, June 26, 2018.
  • Moody's upgrade (with P. Sahoo) - Financial Express, November 23, 2017.
  • Does India get the credit it deserves? (with P. Sahoo) - East Asia Forum, July 1, 2017.
  • Challenge to insulate masses from inflationary pressure (with P. Sahoo) - Deccan Herald, May 28, 2017.
  • India's current credit rating does not reflect the stability of the economy (with P. Sahoo) - Hindustan Times, May 16, 2017.
  • Overall, Trump's policies to impact India minimally (with Prabheesh K.P.) - Deccan Herald, March 9, 2017.
  • Why the Indian economy needs a fiscal stimulus (with P. Sahoo) - Financial Express, January 25, 2017.
  • Demonetisation: A mounting problem for banks (with P. Sahoo) - Financial Express, December 27, 2016.
  • Donald Trump and Road Ahead (with P. Sahoo) - The Pioneer, December 16, 2016.
  • Note ban: informal, unorganised sectors to take massive hit (with Prabheesh K.P.) - Deccan Herald, Novemeber 30, 2016.

Consultancy and Research Projects

Consultancy


  • Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi (Feb 23 - Apr 24) [PI]
  • Monash University, Australia (2023) [PI]
  • Niti Aayog, GoI (Feb 24 - Apr 24) [PI]


Research Projects


  • ICSSR project (2024 - 2025) [PI]

CV

Courses

UG Courses

  • HS201: Economics
  • HS499: Introduction to Applied Econometrics


PG/PhD Courses

  • HS647: Issues in International Finance
  • HS662: Research Methods in Social Sciences
  • DS505: Managerial Economics
  • DS522: Time Series Analysis and Econometrics



Other Information

Honors and Awards

  • `Prof M.J Manohar Rao Award' for the year 2022 by The Indian Econometric Society.
  • Selected as Young Economist to participate in 7th Lindau Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany in 2022.
  • Awarded IIT Hyderabad's inaugural Alumni Award 2020 for ‘Excellence in Academics
  • Sole winner of ‘Prof. AL Nagar Visiting Fellowship’ by The Indian Econometric Society
  • Selected for ‘Visiting Scholars Program 2016’ by IGIDR, Mumbai
  • Research Excellence Award’ for the year 2015-16 at IIT Hyderabad.
  • Best Paper Award’ in PhD Consortium 2015, IIT Bombay.
  • Best Paper Award’ in COSMAR 2015, IISc Bangalore.
  • Awarded UGC-NET in Economics. 2012 


Research Collaboration

  • Monash University, Australia
  • Bank Indonesia
  • Central Bank of Sri Lanka
  • Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
  • Indian Statistical Institute, Tezpur
  • Institute of Economic Growth
  • IIT Hyderabad
  • IIT Roorkee


Ph.D. Supervision

  • Mr. Karan Rai (July 2019 - Feb 2025)
  • Mr. Sayad Ahmad Shah (December 2019 -)
  • Mr. Shivam Sachin (January 2022 -)
  • Ms. Meenu Rani (July 2022 -) [Co-guide]
  • Ms. Pooja (Jan 2025 - )


Ad-hoc Journal Refereeing

Economic Modelling, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Energy Economics, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Finance Research Letters, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of Asian Economics, Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, International Economic Journal, Studies in Economics and Finance, World Development Perspectives, Financial Innovation, Cogent - Economics and Finance, International Economics, Singapore Economic Review, Public Finance Review, Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, Journal of Public Affairs, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, MethodsX, Palgrave Communications -Nature, Asian Economics Letters, Energy Research Letters, Indian Economic Journal.